How to Play in Slow Time : Creativity, Pedagogy, Process

This book considers the role and function of creativity for anchoring educational practices both in universities and beyond. Crucially, the educational practices in question model responsive, careful and attentive encounters with an unfolding present. Reinterpreting the ground-breaking creative processes of leading artists, writers, musicians and dancers, this book offers a toolkit of invitations and encounters that demonstrate how creativity can be practiced – and taught – as a competency that cultivates expertise in harnessing experiment, curiosity, somatic intuition and collaborative practices of world-building. In doing so, the book mounts a vital critical call for developing languages, approaches and methods in both digital and face-to-face learning environments that reconsider creativity as a literacy foundational to all learning settings. Vital to diverse disciplines, fields and professional sectors, this book boldly changes the conversation around the conspicuous role creativity takes in shaping our learning and teaching futures.

Bryoni Trezise is Senior Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at the University of New South Wales. She is the author of Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory (Palgrave, 2013) and Performing Contemporary Childhoods: Being and Becoming a Viral Child (Routledge 2023).

Charlotte Farrell is a performance maker and Lecturer in Theatre and Performance at the University of New South Wales. She is the author of Barrie Kosky on the Contemporary Australian Stage (Routledge 2021), and co-founder of performance company Body of Work with Emma Maye Gibson.

Alexandra Tálamo is a performance artist and sessional Lecturer at the University of New South Wales and National Insititute of Dramatic Art. She has published in Performance Research (2023) and Convergence (2022). She has presented artistic work at The Unconformity (2021) and Kaffee Kuchen-Action Art III (2018).

Maria White is an educator and artist living on unceded Bidjigal land. She holds a Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of New South Wales and is the Academic Course Coordinator for the Common Subjects at the National Institute of Dramatic Art.