The second panel from online symposium HOW WAS IT FOR YOU: Teaching Theatre and Performance Design in a Pandemic which took place on Tuesday 20 and Wednesday 21 July 2021.
The panel featured 3 papers followed by discussion chaired by Andreas Skourtis, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UK
Paper 1:
BA Theatre Design: How it was for us
Lucy Algar, Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts London, UK
Teaching theatre and performance design in a pandemic revealed concerns about student understandings of, and practical knowledge about, spatial awareness, design transformations and the performing body. In her presentation, Lucy will reveal her thoughts about these issues, and how she and her students confronted them.
Paper 2:
The Reinvention of Presence in Theatre Production
Luana Castro, Sônia Paiva, Caio Sato, Stage Design Transdisciplinary Laboratory, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil
COVID-19 affected the world and forced everyone to reformulate face-to-face work. Coordinated by professor Sônia Paiva, the University of Brasília's extension program Stage Design Transdisciplinary Laboratory (LTC), joined in the planning and preparation of classes to reinvent the connection between the professor and the students. This was only possible due to the group’s holistic vision arising from the multiplicity of its members in the process of redesigning the use of the model in the classroom. So, we are "playing gods in a Lilliput's world"!
Paper 3:
Identity of a Space: An investigation in world walking as art education
Anne Habermann and Anna Luyten, Toneelacademie Maastricht, Institute of Performative Arts, Netherlands
Walking brings together so many qualities of learning and living that its pedagogic quality can hardly be underestimated. Walking makes you pay attention, reaching out with your eyes and body and limbs to your surroundings instead of appropriating them. In January 2021, when the pandemic hit London the most, Anne and Anna decided to teach their walking classes to students at UAL who got stuck in different time- and geographical zones.
HOW WAS IT FOR YOU? was convened by Jane Collins, Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL, UK, Peter Farley, Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL, UK, Will Hargreaves, Arts University Bournemouth, UK, and Andreas Skourtis, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UK and supported by Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL.
