• Reflecting on analogue faces and digital masks through mission : impossible (1996-2023) 

  Broodryk, Chris Willem (Deakin University, 2024-04)

  This article uses the idea and practice of the mask and masking technology in the popular Mission: Impossible film franchise to critically consider the tensions between digital and analogue. In the Mission: Impossible ...
• There Is no heaven to go to, because we’re in it already. We’re in hell, too. They coexist : place-making and the television western series 1883 and Yellowstone 

  Broodryk, Chris Willem; Bester, Lelia (Unisa Press, 2024-08)

  This article explores the idea and articulation of place in Taylor Sheridan’s western series 1883 and Yellowstone. Through narrative and genre analysis, we critically compare these two series to demonstrate that genre ...
• Displacement in when rain clouds gather 

  Meintjies, Frank (Unisa Press, 2024-11)

  In this article, I examine the representation of displacement in Bessie Head’s When Rain Clouds Gather (1969). Head not only features displaced characters but also depicts, through her protagonists, the struggles that ...
• Rolspel (role-taking) in die praktyk 

  De Kock, Thea (South African Association for Language Teaching, 1987-09)

  Aanleiding tot die keuse van die verbeeldesituasie vir hierdie besondere drama-in-die-onderwysles was die volgende sillabusinhoude (St. 8 Afrikaans moedertaal) wat volgens die konvensionele bekende onderrigmentodes gehanteer is.
• Theatre practitioners as unionists : art workers in post-independence Zimbabwe’s theatre sector (1980–1999) 

  Sibanda, Nkululeko (Routledge, 2023)

  This article attempts to frame and examine the structuring of labour struggles from the precarious subject position of theatre workers, without isolating these struggles into the occupational sector of the creative industries ...
• Our decolonial conversations with performance voice training in higher education in the South African pluriverse 

  Lemmer, Karina; Munro, Marth; Maseko, Isana (Routledge, 2024)

  This article shares conversational thinking around the complexities present in the vocal development of the actor-in-training in a multilingual, multicultural training context, specifically referring to South African higher ...
• A theatre experiment : a research paradigm with applications for second language learning? 

  Ulbricht, Natasha Janzen; Kruger, Marlene (Taylor and Francis, 2023-04-29)

  Research on performative teaching has expanded in recent decades. This growth has been accompanied by interest in evidence-based practice and evaluation. However, experimentation is complex and classroom-based researchers ...
• Training strategies towards performing emotions on film : an integrated approach 

  Bester, Lelia; Munro, Marth (Routledge, 2023)

  South African film budgets do not allow for extensive preparation and rehearsal periods. South African film actors prepare their portrayal of emotion as part of their performance scores in isolation and are expected to ...
• Maintaining the consent-bubble : an intimacy coordinator’s perspective on touch in performance training 

  Haarhoff, Emil Ernst; Lush, Kate (Taylor and Francis, 2023)

  This article sets out to argue that purposefully consenting to touch constructs a metaphorical ‘consent-bubble’ in which only those invited into its parameters (often not including the IC, facilitator or teacher) may engage ...
• Touch and consent : towards an ethics of care in intimate performance 

  Coetzee, Marie-Heleen; Groves, Kaitlin (Taylor and Francis, 2023)

  Our personal experiences as women working in the performing arts and entertainment sector indicate to us that there is a need for actron-training that includes articulated pedagogical framework and methodological approaches ...
• Touch as a feedback loop : exercising the leap from inertia to activation 

  Johnstone, Kristina (Taylor and Francis, 2023)

  This article critically reflects on the facilitation of embodied practice in virtual spaces of teaching, learning and creation, specifically looking at ways of facilitating touch within the broader context of decolonising ...
• The post-heroism of Stuur groete aan Mannetjies Roux and Verraaiers 

  Britz, Danielle; Broodryk, Chris Willem (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2023-05-08)

  There is much scholarship on the linkages between Afrikaner nationalism and South African (Afrikaans-language) filmmaking. Within the context of a sustained post-apartheid renegotiation of Afrikaans or Afrikaner nationalism ...
• Slow beauty : refocusing Oliver Hermanus's Skoonheid through a slow cinema lens 

  Wanyonyi, Emmanuel S. (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2023-04-24)

  Oliver Hermanus's Skoonheid is often read as a representation of South African queer realities and political progressiveness both during and since the dissolution of apartheid. Consequently, Hermanus's contribution to the ...
• New Afrikaans-language cinemas 

  Broodryk, Chris Willem (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2023-04)

  No abstract available.
• Redemption in the South African west : violence, colonialism and oppression in Five Fingers for Marseilles (2018) 

  Broodryk, Chris Willem; Joynt, Shaun (Routledge, 2021)

  In the South African Sesotho-language Western Five Fingers for Marseilles (2018), Tau flees his hometown of Marseilles in the aftermath of a violent incident. Returning after apartheid ended, Tau finds his hometown in ruins ...
• The South African live events, technical and production services industry’s market position and COVID-19 funding implications 

  Roux, Therese; Coetzee, Marie-Heleen (Routledge, 2022)

  COVID-19 has had a significant economic impact on a global scale. The national lockdown, enacted through the Disaster Management Act 57 of 2002, disrupted multiple economic activities, including that of the Creative and ...
• The theatre of development : dramaturgy, actors and performances in the ‘workshop space’ 

  Shutt, Helen E.; Martin, Laura S.; Coetzee, Marie-Heleen (Routledge, 2023)

  This article explores performance within development spaces. Dramaturgy, a concept deriving from theatre studies, can be understood as an analytical lens that examines the various roles and performances of different ‘actors’ ...
• Embracing aporia : exploring arts-based methods, pain, “playfulness,” and improvisation in research on gender and social violence 

  Forcer, Stephen; Shutt, Helen; Martin, Laura S.; Coetzee, Marie-Heleen; Ibrahim, Aisha Fofana; Fitzmaurice, Susan (Oxford University Press, 2022-10)

  This article explores the role of play and playfulness—as both methodological and analytical tools—in research on social violence. While play may seem antithetical to both discussions on methods and to studying social ...
• Navigating dissonance : bodymind and character congruency in acting 

  Haarhoff, Emil Ernst; Munro, Marth; Coetzee, Marie-Heleen (Pretoria University Law Press, 2022)

  This chapter sets out to create an embodied approach for responsibly navigating actor-character dissonance in performance. Actors attempt to enflesh characters in performance. Enfleshment is the subjective, deliberate ...
• Productive docile bodies in Zimbabwean dance training : the African body in classical ballet training at Afrikera Arts Trust 

  Zhuwawo, Alina; Sibanda, Nkululeko (Routledge, 2021)

  In this paper, we deploy Foucault’s theories of power to interrogate body politics in ballet training in Zimbabwe. To achieve this, we critically examine instances of ballet-related discourse-induced docility occurring in ...

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