Towards a Theatre of Neurodiversity: Virtual Theatre and Disability During a Global Pandemic

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dc.contributor.advisorMyers, Lisa
dc.contributor.authorMagni, Sarah
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-25T14:28:59Z
dc.date.available2021-06-25T14:28:59Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractTheatre in the lives of neurodiverse people and people with intellectual disabilities promotes opinion forming skills and self-advocacy. Through a series of Devised theatre workshops and live streamed performances, I look at how theatre is embodied knowledge and its own form of communication with various points of access that supports neurodiversity. I argue that Disability Theatre has its own rich history rooted in social justice movements, that deserves recognition in theatre and performance discourse. This research had to change and evolve due to the COVID-19 global pandemic and all workshops took place online, adding an entirely new level of urgency to our theatre making. Our virtual rehearsal rooms became a sacred space for us to build community during isolation. The components of this project are a reflection paper, a Virtual Theatre of Neurodiversity workbook for facilitators and artists with disabilities and accompanying video footage of some of the theatre we’ve created during the pandemic so far (which all can be viewed at: https://thatzshowbiz.com/teacher-guide/).en_US
dc.identifier.citationMajor Paper, Master of Environmental Studies, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/38370
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectPerformanceen_US
dc.subjectCommunity artsen_US
dc.subjectSocial justiceen_US
dc.subjectPedagogyen_US
dc.subjectDisability rightsen_US
dc.subjectDramaturgyen_US
dc.subjectAestheticsen_US
dc.titleTowards a Theatre of Neurodiversity: Virtual Theatre and Disability During a Global Pandemicen_US
dc.typeMajor paperen_US

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