Consent Practices in Performing Arts Education - Hardcover

DiFalco Daugherty, Elaine; Trommer-Beardslee, Heather

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1789389712 ISBN 13: 9781789389715

Publisher: Intellect Books, 2024

Synopsis

This book explores consent as a foundational principle to guide practices and policies in university level performing arts education. It includes descriptions of the structural power dynamics present in educational spaces as well as tools for defusing them. It adapts the consent-forward protocols that are foundational to intimacy training in order to apply them to classroom and rehearsal spaces across performing arts disciplines.

This includes opening lines of communication, actively discussing personal boundaries and modeling behavior that respects those boundaries. Additionally, the book uses experiential reflections to address the real-world challenges that teachers face as they work to reshape their teaching habits and processes to include consent practices.

About this title

About the Author

Heather Trommer-Beardslee is an educator, choreographer, dancer, interdisciplinary artist, arts administrator and scholar. She is the coordinator of the Central Michigan University Dance Program, artistic director of the University Theatre Dance Company and author of a textbook and journal articles. She earned her MA in English language and literature from Central Michigan University and her MFA in interdisciplinary art (dance focus) from Goddard College. www.trommerbeardslee.com.

Contact: Central Michigan University, Moore 133, Department of Theatre and Dance, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Intellect Books
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1789389712
• ISBN 13: 9781789389715
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 104