Theatre & Dance Scholarly Works: Recent submissions
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Elementary Teachers' Evaluations of University Performances for Young Audiences
(Youth Theatre Journal, 1997)This study synthesizes elementary teachers' evaluations of 36 theatre productions for young audiences produced at the University of Kansas from 1977 to 1995. Teachers' interpretations of their students' theatre experiences ... -
Reading Empathy in a Quebecois Play: Crying to Laugh
(Theatre Research in Canada, 1994)To explore a continuum model of empathy, 88 children in grades one, three, and five were interviewed about their emotional experiences to Crying to Laugh, a Quebecois play designed to demonstrate emotional expression. ... -
Performance Factors that Inhibit Empathy and Trigger Distancing: Crying to Laugh
(Youth Theatre Journal, 1995)This reception study with 1st, 3rd, and 5th grade children, and adults examined cognitive and emotional responses to a theatre production of Crying to Laugh. In keeping with socialization theories, girls empathized with ... -
Applying Research to Artistic Practices: This Is Not a Pipe Dream
(Youth Theatre Journal, 1993)The article focuses on a reception study in which second, fourth, and sixth graders, and adults were questioned about their perceptions of and responses to a production of Barry Kornhauser's This Is Not a Pipe Dream. ... -
Children's Processing of Theatre as a Function of Verbal and Visual Recall
(Youth Theatre Journal, 1987)To compare cognitive processing of theatre with what is known in television research, this study describes 32 fifth graders' dramatic literacy. Children overwhelmingly processed information from within a production's ... -
Children's Interpretations of Computer-Animated Dinosaurs in Theatre
(Youth Theatre Journal, 2003)Thirty-two children (10 1st grade, 11 3rd grade, 11 5th grade) attended a live theatre performance of Dinosaurus (Mast and Bensinger) using human actors and computer-animated dinosaurs. Contrary to perceived reality ... -
Translating Metaphors from Quebec to Kansas
(Canadian Theatre Review, 2000)Children's and teachers' responses to Quebecois plays in performance at the University of Kansas. -
From Children's Perspectives: A Model of Aesthetic Processing in Theatre
(Journal of Aesthetic Education, 2005)A model of aesthetic processing describes how child audiences create meanings of plays in performances.