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My Newfound Respect For The Hard Work Performers Do Before Stepping On Stage, Heather Gibson Feb 2016

My Newfound Respect For The Hard Work Performers Do Before Stepping On Stage, Heather Gibson

UCF Forum

When I gave the Theatre UCF students 30 days to teach me how to perform a karaoke song, I didn’t realize I was also handing over my dignity.

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The Next Time Someone Has Something Bad To Say About Your Work..., Heather Gibson Oct 2015

The Next Time Someone Has Something Bad To Say About Your Work..., Heather Gibson

UCF Forum

A theatre student recently came to my office a little on the glum side. He was an actor in a production that had received a less-than-favorable review and he wasn’t taking it well. He had taken the writer’s words to heart and it was affecting his performance.

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Move, Interact, And Connect Personally Barter Theatre’S Project Real Gets Implicit In Order To Learn, Megan E. Atkinson May 2015

Move, Interact, And Connect Personally Barter Theatre’S Project Real Gets Implicit In Order To Learn, Megan E. Atkinson

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Body movement, hands-on activity, embodiment, social interaction, emotions, and self-reflection allow teaching artists of Barter’s Theatre’s Project REAL to conduct a lesson with an implicit learning experience as the focus. Barter Theatre’s Project REAL exists as a theatre for education program that collaborates with regular classroom teachers on delivering the curriculum through specific theatre exercises in order to connect the material personally to the students’ lives. Theatre tools provide a human experience that enhances learning for the student by use of kinesthetic movement, social learning, emotions and interpersonal skills. To understand the effects of Barter Theatre’s Project REAL, the director …

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“The Autism Adventures Of Watson & Holmes”: Puppet Theatre To Improve Elementary Students’ Knowledge Of And Attitudes Toward Autism Spectrum Disorder, Sarah N. Simon Jan 2015

“The Autism Adventures Of Watson & Holmes”: Puppet Theatre To Improve Elementary Students’ Knowledge Of And Attitudes Toward Autism Spectrum Disorder, Sarah N. Simon

Departmental Honors Projects

The prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a growing concern in schools across the nation. More students with high functioning autism are being mainstreamed, and students on and off the spectrum are being exposed to a wider variety of behaviors and new opportunities for friendship in school. Many students who fall on the autism spectrum suffer from the stigmatizing attitudes of their peers, and this stigmatization often stems from a lack of early education about mental health. Puppetry has been proven to captivate young audiences while teaching important messages in an entertaining and relatable way. The purpose of this …

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Ouchita Students To Direct And Perfom In One-Act Play Festival Dec. 11-12, Dalaney Thomas, Ouachita News Bureau Dec 2014

Ouchita Students To Direct And Perfom In One-Act Play Festival Dec. 11-12, Dalaney Thomas, Ouachita News Bureau

Press Releases

Ouachita Baptist University's Department of Theatre Arts will host its annual One-Act Play Festival on Thursday and Friday, Dec 11-12, at 7:30 p.m. in Verser Theatre. The performances are free and open to the public.

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Ouachita's Department Of Theatre Arts To Present "The Giver" Sept. 25-30, Rachel Gaddis, Ouachita News Bureau Sep 2014

Ouachita's Department Of Theatre Arts To Present "The Giver" Sept. 25-30, Rachel Gaddis, Ouachita News Bureau

Press Releases

Ouachita Baptist University's Department of Theatre Arts will present its fall children's play, The Giver, with the opening performance on Sept. 25 at 7 p.m. in Verser Theatre. Performances continue Sept. 26-27 and 29-30 at 7 p.m., plus a 2:30 p.m. matinee on Sept. 28. Tickets can be purchased for $10 each at www.obu.edu/boxoffice.

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Department Of Theatre Arts To Present One-Act Play Festival May 1-2, Taylor Tomlinson, Ouachita News Bureau Apr 2014

Department Of Theatre Arts To Present One-Act Play Festival May 1-2, Taylor Tomlinson, Ouachita News Bureau

Press Releases

Ouachita Baptist University's Department of Theatre Arts will host its student-directed One-Act Play Festival on Thursday and Friday, May 1-2, at 8 p.m. in Verser Theatre. The performances are free and open to the public.

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"Guys And Dolls" Musical Theatre Performance Set For April 10-13, Bethany Peevy, Ouachita News Bureau Mar 2014

"Guys And Dolls" Musical Theatre Performance Set For April 10-13, Bethany Peevy, Ouachita News Bureau

Press Releases

Ouachita Baptist University's musical theatre program will stage the acclaimed musical "Guys and Dolls" in Jones Performing Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. on April 10-12 and at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 13. Tickets are $10 per person with discounts available for groups of 10 or more.

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Four Ouachita Students Named Finalists At Kcactf Regional Auditions, Taylor Tomlinson, Ouachita News Bureau Mar 2014

Four Ouachita Students Named Finalists At Kcactf Regional Auditions, Taylor Tomlinson, Ouachita News Bureau

Press Releases

Four Ouachita Baptist University students were named finalists in recent auditions at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF). The festival took place at Centenary College in Shreveport, La., Feb. 25-March 1.

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Sites Of Passage: Art As Action In Egypt And The Us-- Creating An Autoethnography Through Performance Writing, Revolution, And Social Practice, Tavia La Follette Jan 2013

Sites Of Passage: Art As Action In Egypt And The Us-- Creating An Autoethnography Through Performance Writing, Revolution, And Social Practice, Tavia La Follette

Antioch University Full-Text Dissertations & Theses

As a performance artist and arts activist I present my research project to the audience in performative writing, a postmodern research style that advocates the integration of the artist/researcher identity. In the summer of 2010, I left for Egypt to teach a performance and installation art workshop at Artist Residency Egypt, the first step of the Firefly Tunnels Project, a virtual and tangible exchange between artists in the United States and Egypt. This venture began with the awareness that the 10th anniversary of 9/11 was approaching. What I could not have foreseen were the other world events that would have …

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'... And The Theatre Was Full Of Poofs, And I Thought It Was Fantastic': Researching The History Of Gay Men And The Movies, Scott J. Mckinnon Jan 2011

'... And The Theatre Was Full Of Poofs, And I Thought It Was Fantastic': Researching The History Of Gay Men And The Movies, Scott J. Mckinnon

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

The history of gay men and movies has often been discussed as matter of representation and in terms of images on screens. those boys in the band and their eventful party; Al Pacino's nights in the leather bars of New York; a bus called Priscilla; two cowboys in love. Also the focus of inquiry had been the gay men on and behind the camera. Rock Hudson, Rupert Everett, George Cukor, Gus van Sant. More recently, a growing number of researchers have begun to contemplate and investigate the gay men in the cinema audience. this chapter disucsses the use of oral …

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Ua1c7 Departmental Photos, Wku Archives Jan 2008

Ua1c7 Departmental Photos, Wku Archives

WKU Archives Collection Inventories

Images showing everyday activities of university departments.

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Drama In The Docklands, Mary Moynihan Jan 2005

Drama In The Docklands, Mary Moynihan

Articles

An article by Mary Moynihan in IN2 Magazine, issue number seven, Winter 2005, on Drama in the Docklands, a project run by Smashing Times Theatre Company that promotes access to creativity in the docklands area of Dublin, bringing drama into two primary schools - St Joseph's Primary School, East Wall and City Quay Primary School, City Quay. The article documents the project and the year-end show by children at Samuel Beckett Centre, Trinity College, Dublin.

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