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Research Articles (Drama): Recent submissions

  • Beyond the expected : an enriched learning experience through learner engagement and participation 
    Zeeman, Estelle; Lotriet, Marena (Routledge, 2013-02)
    The teaching of classical Greek dramas is integral to drama education at the University of Pretoria. In the past few years these dramas increasingly faced the danger of becoming ‘foreign’/irrelevant to modern day students. ...
  • The cinema of Willie Esterhuizen : the quest for sex and hegemonic masculinity 
    Broodryk, Chris Willem (Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria, 2013)
    In this article I critically discuss how Willie Esterhuizen's films explicitly present an affirmative heteronormative hegemonic masculinity despite numerous queer, destabilising possibilities that threaten such dominant ...
  • Muscle jew and the monument : excercises in materiality 
    Taub, Myer (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013)
    This paper situates a critical and reflexive reference to my own recent explorations with the body and the Monument in two video performance works: ‘Muscle and Jew and the Voortrekker Monument’ (2012) and ‘Muscle Jew and ...
  • Reflecting on the art making process 
    Van Heerden, Ariana; Munro, Marth (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)
    This article reports on a mixed method study of painting and drawing activities of professional artists utilizing semi-structured interviews documenting affective states. The experiential data was supplemented with ...
  • Becoming the body, approaching the body, re-enacting the body : Jew in Venice 
    Taub, Myer (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2012)
    This paper considers several examples of creative work specifically situated in the city of Venice as an amplification of otherness made apparent through the city’s metonymy of the physical body. This is an attempt to ...
  • Embodied knowledges : physical theatre and the physicality of theatre 
    Coetzee, Marie-Heleen; Munro, Marth (Centre for Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 2010)
    While the general contours of virtuosity are the same across media, every sacred monster is unique; every technique organizes its own monstrosity, and every community engages its virtuoso monsters on its own terms (Hamera ...
  • (Re)storying the self : exploring identity through performative inquiry 
    Coetzee, Marie-Heleen (Centre for Theatre and Performance Studies,University of Stellenbosch, 2009)
    This paper investigates the ways in which the use of performative inquiry can shift notions of knowledge as situated to knowledge as experiential, embodied and an in situ encounter in the domain of performance studies. ...
  • Mind the gap : beyond whole-brain learning 
    Munro, Marth; Coetzee, Marie-Heleen (Centre for Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Stellenbosch, 2007)
    The authors explored the ways in which the changes in the South African educational dispensation impact on the work of educators within a Drama department in the Higher Education and Training band (HET) in South Africa. ...
  • Communication skills for medical/dental students at the University of Pretoria : lessons learnt from a two-year study using a forum theatre method 
    Kruger, Christa; Blitz-Lindeque, J.J.; Pickworth, Glynis Ellen; Munro, A.J.(Alick J.); Lotriet, Marena (Medpharm Publications, 2005-07)
    BACKGROUND: This study describes the lessons learnt from using a novel method for teaching communication skills to second-year medical/dental students. METHODS: Medical and drama teachers designed this action research ...