Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing
- Submitting institution
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The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- KLOW1
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.5040/9781472584601
- Publisher
- Publishing Plc
- ISBN
- 9781472584601
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- ‘Applied Theatre: Performing Health and Wellbeing’, co-edited by Dr Low and Prof. Baxter (University of Cape Town), comprises 10 chapters, 3 interviews and 13 short essays, in a 91,069-word peer-reviewed volume focussing on the intersections between theatre and performance practice and arts and health practice in 12 different countries. It addresses the role that theatre, drama and performance have in relation to promoting, developing and sustaining health and wellbeing in diverse communities. Low and Baxter co-devised a research frame to map the field, creating space for 34 contributors from both the global south and the global north. Low and Baxter steered the contributors to critique the role of theatre-making in response to health challenges and lived experiences. The book’s ethos argues for a reconceptualisation of how the arts in health partnership has worked thus far and moves away from the concept of the arts at ‘the service’ of the health sector. Instead, it advocates and critiques the importance of methods of co-creation in terms of the potential for new forms of art-making and artistry to emerge when engaging with specific health concerns.
Contributions by Low include: the introduction (2,618 words) which distinguishes between different approaches to the arts and health field, staking a claim for the importance of art-making in health as a form of research and analysis; a chapter situating conceptualisations of health and disease against the background of health inequities, problematising understandings of health experiences across different nations and communities (12,557 words); and a chapter on the importance of playful forms of art-making when discussing sexual health with young people (5,069 words). In addition, Low wrote four conceptual section introductions (2,066 words combined), undertook an interview with the Brazilian psychiatrist and theatre-maker, Vitor Pordeus on performance, ritual and mental health, and co-wrote the volume’s conclusion (1,293 words).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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