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Publication Date: 2016
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Rangi Ruru Walk: Social and Spatial Connections through Hybrid Intermedial Practices
Wood, Becca; Mullen, Molly
Research in Drama Education, v21 n3 p406-412 2016
In 2013 Becca Wood, Spatial Performance Practitioner, and Molly Mullen, Applied Theatre Practitioner, collaborated to create a short ambulatory performance with audio score for a group of drama educators attending a conference workshop on the possibilities of walking as performance. The performance was created remotely from the intended site: Rangi Ruru Girls' School, in Christchurch, New Zealand. Following the destruction of the 2012 earthquake, this site was in a state of transformation and recovery. The performance walk attended to the histories, geographies and politics of this place, somatically, architecturally and socially. This paper engages with three critical questions: How might mediated listening and walking activate the coming together of bodies and place? What performative shifts occurred for the participants in the walk and workshop? How might we come to our senses? Through a performative practice of mediated site-based listening and walking, this paper is a reflection on the creative process and performance. We consider the potential for technologically mediated performance to offer new modes for learning and creative practice through interdisciplinary and evolving intermedial practices.
Descriptors: Theater Arts, Spatial Ability, Natural Disasters, Creativity, Foreign Countries, Scores, Performance, History, Politics, Workshops, Geography, Interdisciplinary Approach, Physical Activities
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Language: English
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