Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing by Dr Veronica Baxter (English)

Description: Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing by Dr Veronica Baxter, Dr Katharine E. Low, Prof Michael Balfour, Dr Sheila Preston Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing is the first volume in the field to address the role that theatre, drama and performance have in relation to promoting, developing and sustaining health and wellbeing in diverse communities. Challenging concepts and understanding of health, wellbeing and illness, it offers insight into different approaches to major health issues through applied performance. With a strong emphasis on the artistry involved in performance-based health responses, situated within a history of the field of practice, the volume is divided into two sections:Part One examines some of the key questions around research and practice in applied performance in health and wellbeing, specifically addressing the different regional challenges that dominate the provision of health care and influence wellbeing: how the ageing population of the global north creates pressure on lifetime healthcare provision, while the global south is dominated by a higher birth rate and a larger population under 15 years old.Part Two comprises case studies and interviews from international practitioners that reflect the diversity of practices across the world and in particular differences between work in the northern and southern hemispheres. These case studies include a sanitation project in a Hmong refugee camp in Thailand in the 1980s, and the sanitation and rural development projects initiated by the travelling theatre troupes of a number of University theatre departments in Africa – Makerere in Kampala, Uganda; Botswana; Lesotho and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania – which began in the 1960s. It considers the emergence of Theatre for Developments use as a health approach, considering the work of Laedza Batanani and the influences of Augusto Boals Theatre of the Oppressed. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Katharine E. Low is a lecturer in Applied Theatre and Community Performance at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK. She has previously researched and facilitated practice in Tanzania and South Africa with specific reference to sexual health and local responses to HIV/AIDS prevention, as well as working with HIV+ refugee women in Manchester.Dr Veronica Baxter is the convenor of the Honours programme and the Masters in Applied Theatre at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and has taught at South African and English universities for 25 years, focusing on applied theatre and drama, directing, theatre history and South African theatre. Table of Contents Part 1IntroductionKatharine Low1 Understanding Health, Wellbeing, the Millennium Development Goals and Health InequitiesKatharine Low2 Aesthetics, Instrumentalism and Ethics in Health and WellbeingVeronica Baxter Part 23 Ageing: Dementia Care, Death and Dying (the UK and North America)3.1 IntroductionKatharine Low 3.2 Essay – Participatory theatre and dementiaNicola Hatton 3.3 Interview – A discussion about death? I feel more alive nowSue Mayo in conversation with Liz Rothschild, Director of Kicking the Bucket: A Festival of Living and Dying4 Communicable Diseases: Tuberculosis (South Africa), Malaria (Malawi) and Dengue Fever (Brazil)4.1 IntroductionKatharine Low 4.2 Essay – Tuberculosis: The forgotten plagueVeronica Baxter and Michele Tameris 4.3 Snapshot – Dialogical theatre: Reconsidering the role of Theatre for Development for malaria prevention in MalawiZindaba Dunduzu Chisiza4.4 Interview – Public Enemy No. 1: Dengue fever in the favelas of BrazilJohayne Hildefonso is interviewed by Jan Onoszko 5 Non-Communicable Diseases: Lifestyle and Post-Colonial Stress Disorder (Canada), Nutrition and Health Eating (Denmark), Diabetes (UK) 1215.1 IntroductionKatharine Low5.2 Essay – Acting Out our health: Assisting youth in making healthy lifestyle choices through linkingIndigenous perspectives about wellbeing with Applied TheatreJulian Robbins, Warren Linds, Linda Goulet, Jo-Ann Episkenew and Karen Schmidt5.3 Snapshot – Health theatre for childrenDan Grabowski and Jens Aagaard-Hansen 5.4 Snapshot – Creativity and change in the lifestyles of South Asian communities in YorkshireGeetha Upadhyaya 6 Sexual Health: Practice from South Africa and the Asia– Pacific Region 1456.1 IntroductionVeronica Baxter6.2 Essay – Its difficult to talk about sex in a positive way: Creating a space to breatheKatharine Low 6.3 Snapshot – Performing the solution: Cautions and possibilities when using theatre conventions within HIV prevention programmesHelen Cahill7 Cancer: Research from the UK, USA and Australia 1677.1 IntroductionKatharine Low 7.2 Essay – Proud disclosures and awkward receptions: between bodies with cancer and their audiencesBrian Lobel7.3 Snapshot – Alive and Out There: Theatre addressing stigma around cancer in diverse communities in Sydney, Australia Astrid Perry and Lynne Baker 8 Womens Health and Gender Inequity: Experiences from India, Malawi and the Solomon Islands8.1 IntroductionVeronica Baxter 8.2 Essay – The ambiguities of Shakti: Performing womens well-being in IndiaNandita Dinesh 8.3 Snapshot – Womens drama group in Malawi targets mothers and children for burns preventionEffie Makepeace 8.4 Snapshot – Stages of Change: Using theatre to address domestic violence in the Solomon IslandsKiara Worth 9 Mental Health: Perspectives from South Africa, the UK and Brazil9.1 IntroductionVeronica Baxter 9.2 Essay – Between the traditional and the theatrical: Forms and performances of healing depression in South AfricaSinethemba Makanya 9.3 Snapshot – Mad Gyms and Kitchens, Bobby Baker and Daily Life LtdCaoimhe McAvinchey9.4 Interview – Dionysus and ritual ecstasy: Madness and medicineVitor Pordeus is interviewed by Katharine Low10 Snapshots of Practice: Environmental Health, Medical Dramaturgy, Addiction and Ebola10.1 IntroductionVeronica Baxter 10.2 Snapshot – Ecological health in Violeta Lunas NK 603:Action for Performer & e-Maiz Lisa Woynarski 10.3 Snapshot – Storying climate change adaptation: Theatre as a research tool in an Ecohealth research process in the Eastern Cape, South AfricaNicholas Hamer and Alexandra Sutherland 10.4 Snapshot – Generating a medical dramaturgy: Live intersections between intermediality and healthDeirdre McLaughlin and Joanne Scott 10.5 Snapshot – Dance lifts us up in the world: Socially engaged theatre with people in recovery from addictionZoe Zontou 10.6 Snapshot – The performance of Ebola: A critical analysis of Ebola Doctors Gloria Ernest-Samuel Afterword Veronica Baxter and Katharine Low Review This collection adds rich new perspectives to ongoing debates about the cultural locations of health care, theatre, and power ... A highly valuable contribution to expanding the boundaries of this growing field. * New Theatre Quarterly *Emphasizing ways in which performance techniques can support the promotion of health care, Applied Theatre is a valuable, well-researched study on a topic of practical concern. Reconsidering established notions of how illness and wellness are broadly understood, the collection examines both practical and aesthetic concerns in reconsidering prevailing concepts. In part 1, Baxter (Univ. of Cape Town, South Africa) and Low (Univ. of London, UK), both specialists in applied theater, introduce the book and establish its goals. The chapters in part 2 are multifaceted: primarily geographical, they identify specific health problems facing populations in the "global" north (ageing citizenry) and south (higher birth rate, more youthful population), and the aesthetic and research means by which these "local" problems can be addressed. The more interesting parts of each chapter are case studies and interviews with artists and medical practitioners, many in the developing world, dealing with hygiene and sanitation concerns, rural development issues, and so on. Though pitched at practitioners using theatrical techniques in health care broadly defined, the volume offers fascinating angles on a little-explored subject that will interest readers in a variety of disciplines. Summing Up: Recommended. * CHOICE * Promotional The first volume to examine the role of theatre, drama and performance in relation to promoting, developing and sustaining health and wellbeing. Review Quote "Emphasizing ways in which performance techniques can support the promotion of health care, Applied Theatre is a valuable, well-researched study on a topic of practical concern. Reconsidering established notions of how illness and wellness are broadly understood, the collection examines both practical and aesthetic concerns in reconsidering prevailing concepts. In part 1, Baxter (Univ. of Cape Town, South Africa) and Low (Univ. of London, UK), both specialists in applied theater, introduce the book and establish its goals. The chapters in part 2 are multifaceted: primarily geographical, they identify specific health problems facing populations in the "global" north (ageing citizenry) and south (higher birth rate, more youthful population), and the aesthetic and research means by which these "local" problems can be addressed. The more interesting parts of each chapter are case studies and interviews with artists and medical practitioners, many in the developing world, dealing with hygiene and sanitation concerns, rural development issues, and so on. Though pitched at practitioners using theatrical techniques in health care broadly defined, the volume offers fascinating angles on a little-explored subject that will interest readers in a variety of disciplines. Summing Up: Recommended." - CHOICE Promotional "Headline" The first volume to examine the role of theatre, drama and performance in relation to promoting, developing and sustaining health and wellbeing. Feature Applied theatre is a large sub-discipline within theatre studies with modules attracting large cohorts of students. In addition there are many practitioners who would find this useful Details ISBN1472584570 Short Title APPLIED THEATRE PERFORMING HEA Language English ISBN-10 1472584570 ISBN-13 9781472584571 Media Book Format Paperback Series Applied Theatre Year 2017 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Katharine E. Low DEWEY 306.4848 Publication Date 2017-01-26 Imprint Methuen Drama UK Release Date 2017-01-26 NZ Release Date 2017-01-26 Illustrations 10 b/w illus Author Dr Sheila Preston Pages 344 Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2017-01-25 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:101505987;

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