Something Inside So Strong
- Submitting institution
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Goldsmiths' College
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 2181
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- Website, video of performance, script, video podcast
- Open access status
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- Month
- September
- Year
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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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
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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T - Theatre and Performance
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This Portfolio contextualises the website:_x000D_
https://www.dannybraverman.com/something-inside-so-strong_x000D_
that comprises a video of the performance at the Arcola Theatre, script, video podcast and supplementary material._x000D_
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This Practice Research produced fresh insights into how the artist-teacher positions themselves in relation to participants, collaborative dramaturgy, intersectionality and the challenges and limitations of using creative practice as an educational tool._x000D_
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My project is inspired by the songs of Black British songwriter and poet Labi Siffre. Enriched by critical pedagogy, I explore musical theatre with young people, challenging the musical theatre canon and contributing to inclusive education. _x000D_
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I designed the research methodology so that each stage - scriptwriting, rehearsal, performance - was underpinned by ‘dialogic learning’ (Freire, 1970) to offer alternatives to conventional approaches. _x000D_
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The dramaturgical challenges for writing a ‘back-catalogue’ musical were informed and inspired by Siffre’s own intersectionality: his life and work as a gay-Black artist-activist. In the script, multi-faceted characterisation is composed of intersections between class, gender, sexuality, ’race’ and disability._x000D_
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Something Inside So Strong was conceived as multi-intersectional, since it articulated tensions and complementarities between ‘multiple subordinate-group identities’ (Purdie-Vaughns & Eibach, 2008) within the overarching idea of the title song. The work succeeded in introducing a radical musical into the existing musical theatre educational canon. The creation process was at the same time informed by, and also further developed, my own dramaturgical framework, ‘Dialogue-across-Difference’, which is influenced by Morris Hargreaves MacIntyre’s ‘hierarchy of motivations’(Audience Knowledge Digest, MHM, 2007). Dialogue-across-Difference identifies how social, educational and emotional aspects of participant experience interrelate, to generate ‘spiritual’ experiences. Following the Arcola Theatre production (2016), I have refined this framework as a tool for participant evaluation as well as performance analysis, in order constantly to evolve my interactions with schools and youth groups.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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