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Exploring and Incorporating Music in the Classroom
Get PDFThis paper is an exploration into the benefits that incorporating music into various aspects of the classroom can bring students. Music has been a part of life and culture since the first civilizations. Each generation, the traditions, and practices are passed down to the next. Over time, music and the way we teach it have transformed. The importance that society places on music has also evolved. However, the benefits that music brings have not. Research has shown that the brain reacts to music and stimulates learning. There are several developmental and psychological impacts that music can have on the mind. Bringing that knowledge to teaching and implementing music into classrooms can immensely benefit students in a myriad of ways. There are many different ways to incorporate music into classrooms, from playing background music to creating immersive experiences. Some of the different uses for music in classrooms can be as an assistive tool, a tool for memorization, or a therapeutic tool. Music can also assist students with special needs and students, who are learning another language. Music can be used to build culturally responsive classrooms and build classroom community. The multifarious ways that music can be used to benefit students are all methods that I plan to use in my future classroom
Play Therapy with Neuro-Diverse Children Who Have Experienced Trauma: A Multiple-Case Study
Get PDFThe purpose of this exploratory case study is to develop an initial understanding of the phenomenon of various themes and patterns that arise in play therapy sessions while working with neurodiverse preschoolers who have experienced trauma. The focus of this multiple case study design is to provide an insight into working with a complex demographic of children within the context and nature of Child-Centered Play Therapy. The play therapy sessions were conducted with three four-year-old children in a therapeutic preschool setting. The findings show the significance of identifying themes and patterns that emerge in children’s play, while considering the child’s diagnosis and experienced trauma. Lastly, identifying the trends in children’s play helps to provide an initial understanding of what each child is trying to communicate through their external and internal behaviors
\u27A pretty woman is not allways [sic] a fool: Sensibility as Performance in the Portraits of Emma, Lady Hamilton
No full textWhen describing the marriage of Sir William Hamilton to his second wife, Emma, in 1791, Horace Walpole remarked he had “actually married his collection of statues.” This remark encapsulates a view of Emma Hamilton as art object, and later as a caricature of sensual vice. In examining portraits of this complex figure, this paper seeks to bring more attention to portraits as an intersectional medium, and to images of Emma Hamilton as a rich historical resource in late eighteenth-century art and society. Themes of theatrical discourse and sensibility culture contribute to a more comprehensive view of women in liminal social positions crafting their own artistic images.
Nowhere is Lady Hamilton’s involvement in the visual construction of her own identity more legible than in her portraits - particularly those by such contemporary masters as Romney, Reynolds, Kauffman, and Vigée-Lebrun. Each of theses artists manipulates gender conventions and theatrical discourses of this historical moment. These representations intersect with her salon performances known as attitudes, and connect to an eighteenth-century concern with a heightened consciousness of self and others, a sensitivity to finer feelings, characterised as ‘sensibility culture.’ In these portraits the sitter negotiates a construction of her own identity with the artists. My hope is to enrich the discourse concerning Lady Hamilton within the field of art history, and to draw out a case for her as a conscious participant in a late-eighteenth century culture of sensibility, one which was anchored both visually and culturally
The Global Majority Performing Memory
Get PDFArtists in the Global Majority offer a unique and vital perspective on the act and the art of performing memory onstage. A number of theatrical works have been selected to represent the broader field within and around New York City over the years 2019 to the present 2023. These works are discussed as experienced by the author, as well as how they are in conversation with one another thematically and dramaturgically. This survey of contemporary work within the field concludes with an in-depth interview of the artist Aya Ogawa discussing the role representation and formation of memory plays in their own theatrical work
From the Eyes of a Wolf: Speculative Theater, Puppetry, and Adoption in Hansol Jung\u27s Wolf Play
Get PDFThis thesis is interested in the idea of speculative theater and the use of puppetry as a way to discuss transracial adoption, rehoming, and attachment trauma. I argue that Wolf Play is an embodiment of speculative theater that points to the sufferings and objectification of adopted children. Through a close reading of the Wolf Play text and an analysis of the New York-based staged productions, this will discuss speculative theater, the use of puppetry throughout the piece and the real-world dark underground market of selling children.
The first section of this paper will provide a brief overview of Wolf Play’s production history, including its earlier workshop productions through its recent run at Soho Repertory Theater and MCC Theater in New York City.
The second section will focus on the multiplicities of “play” and the use of speculative theater – a term I’m borrowing from literary term speculative fiction – as a narrative and theatrical tool within Wolf Play that comments on the use of imagination and the theatrical performance of play in the show.
The third section will directly put Wolf Play in conversation with the “Reuters Investigates – The Child Exchange”. Through research and textual analysis, this section will discuss the overlapping connections between the real-life events, and the theatrical fictive representation on stage.
The final section will discuss how Jeenu is presented as an object who is fighting to become a real boy, the movement techniques used in Wolf Play rehearsals, and the use of puppetry as a trauma response
