Keywords
Devising, community engaged performance, facilitating
Abstract
One purpose of community-engaged work is to build and reflect the community; to allow their voice to be heard. This research explores the relationship between the professional artist facilitator and participants in a community-engaged setting while applying devised theatre practices. The facilitating artist brings to the group their expertise in playmaking and storytelling. The research centers on how a facilitating artist might approach devising a community-engaged performance project with awareness of his/her ability to influence the group. How can the facilitator channel their influence to provide productive guidance for the collective creativity in order to honor the community’s intent and minimize the distortion created by the facilitator’s perspective? Are there guidelines that can be established in order to ensure that the community’s voice is undiluted? I begin by engaging in dialogue with established current practitioners in the field and examining literature published on the subject with this goal in mind. From this research a roadmap of perils and pitfalls, signs to look for that indicate tension or discomfort within the group, and techniques and tips for productively refocusing the group’s work have been created. The objective of the research is to formulate a philosophy on facilitation that aligns with my artistic mission and values, ensuring the work truly builds and reflects the communities from which it is produced.
Notes
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Graduation Date
2013
Semester
Fall
Advisor
Weaver, Earl
Degree
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)
College
College of Arts and Humanities
Department
Theatre
Degree Program
Theatre; Theatre for Young Audiences
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0005095
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0005095
Language
English
Release Date
December 2016
Length of Campus-only Access
3 years
Access Status
Masters Thesis (Open Access)
Subjects
Arts and Humanities -- Dissertations, Academic, Dissertations, Academic -- Arts and Humanities
STARS Citation
Grile, Courtney, "Creating Art That Truly Reflects The Community: An Exploration Into Facilitation Of Devised, Community-engaged Performance" (2013). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2932.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/2932