Performer's Guide to the Collaborative Process, The - Softcover

Kerrigan, Sheila

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0325003114 ISBN 13: 9780325003115

Publisher: Heinemann Drama, 2001

Synopsis

This book demystifies the collaborative creative process and gives performers and directors practical tools and information.

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About the Author

SHEILA KERRIGAN is a performer, director, author, and teacher who works in schools, with at-risk youth, and in community settings. As co-director of TOUCH Mime Theater for 17 years, she toured the eastern US, performing and conducting residencies and workshops. With TOUCH she collaboratively created twenty original performances. She has conducted residencies for arts councils and universities, performed and taught in prisons, juvenile detention centers, hospitals, in corporate settings, street festivals, and on television. She has directed original plays for Jelly Educational Theater, a professional, adult company that performs issue-oriented plays for children. She has developed curricula that use mime and theater games to teach fundamental life skills like cooperation (leading and following) communication (focusing, seeing, listening, self-awareness and responding) creative thinking and collaboration. While researching for The Performer's Guide to the Collab

Reviews

Kerrigan (cofounder/codirector of TOUCH Mime Theater) presents a one-stop resource for those interested in the collaborative creative process used by performance groups in dance, mime, and drama. Part 1 provides games and exercises to be used in a group creative process, while Part 2 deals with the dynamics of working in a group environment. Most of what is here is available in some form someplace else: articles and books that provide ideas for games and exercises useful in improvisational theater abound, and there is an equal number of resources on small-group dynamics, communication, and conflict resolution. What makes this publication unique, however, is that Kerrigan has gathered so many ideas into a single resource, and each idea has been proven by use in an active collaborative/improvisational theater group. Included is a list of the over 70 people Kerrigan interviewed, as well as an extensive bibliography. Recommended for theater collections. Laura A. Ewald, Murray State Univ., KY
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Edition details

• Publisher: Heinemann Drama
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0325003114
• ISBN 13: 9780325003115
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192