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Moving spaces, mapping the drama room as heterotopia
Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Teaching and Learning.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8815-8042
2022 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation only (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

: The presentation investigates a drama space belonging to an all girls’ community theatre group in an industrial town in Sweden. The girls, aged 13-17, do drama in their spare time and the artistic work produced relies on a participatory process where the girls’ input is vital. This presentation explores the political characteristic of the girls’ drama room which reflects, juxtaposes and opposes particular sites in the participants’ everyday life such as school and family. By working with Foucault’s idea of Heterotopia this presentation examines how the drama room functions as an exclusive and excluding space as a well as a space of resistance. Based on interviews with the girls, this ethnographic study challenges the assumption that applied drama is only an interrelational matter between the drama participants. By examining the drama room as the ‘other place’ in the girls’ everyday lives while also being embedded in the town they live in, this paper explores and problematise the drama room as space for the girls to have agency, there and elsewhere. The study puts spatial and postconstructionist theories to work why notions of space and place are foregrounded. This allows for a ‘dramaspaceknowledge’ to emerge, the influence of which stretches beyond the drama room. This presentation argues that the girls’ ‘dramaspaceknowledge’ is utilised when creating a performance and while challenging structures and norms elsewhere, such as in their schools and the town they live in. This presentation will explore this ‘dramaspaceknowledge’ in more detail as well as problematise the implications of working in a heterotopic space.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2022.
Keywords [en]
community theatre, applied theatre, heterotopia, space and place
National Category
Performing Art Studies
Research subject
Teaching and Learning with Specialisation in the Arts Education
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-227211OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-227211DiVA, id: diva2:1842748
Conference
IDEA, University of Iceland, july 4-8, 2022
Available from: 2024-03-06 Created: 2024-03-06 Last updated: 2024-03-06Bibliographically approved

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