Overview
Digital Storytelling, Applied Theatre, &
Youth argues that theatre artists must re-imagine how and why they
facilitate performance practices with young people. Rapid globalization
and advances in media and technology continue to change the ways that
people engage with and understand the world around them. Drawing on
pedagogical, aesthetic, and theoretical threads of applied theatre and
media practices, this book presents practitioners, scholars, and
educators with innovative approaches to devising and performing digital
stories.
This book offers the first comprehensive examination of digital
storytelling as an applied theatre practice. Alrutz explores how
participatory and mediated performance practices can engage the wisdom
and experience of youth; build knowledge about self, others and society;
and invite dialogue and deliberation with audiences. In doing so, she
theorizes digital storytelling as a site of possibility for critical and
relational practices, feminist performance pedagogies, and alliance
building with young people.