Overview
- Examines the partnership between applied theatre and sexual health communication
- Argues for an alternative way of approaching sexual health
- Develops our understanding of the importance of the intangible moments that appear at the edges of performance
Part of the book series: Contemporary Performance InterActions (CPI)
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About this book
This book analyses the partnership between applied theatre and sexual health communication in a theatre-making project in Nyanga, a township in South Africa. By examining the bridges and schisms between the two fields as they come together in the project, an alternative way of approaching sexual health communication is advocated. This alternative considers what it is that applied theatre does, and could become, in this context. Moments of value which lie around the margins of the practice emerge as opportunities that can be overlooked. These somewhat ephemeral, intangible moments, which appear on the edges, are described as ‘apertures of possibility’ and occur when one takes a step back and realises something unnoticed in the moment. This book offers an invitation to pause and notice the seemingly insignificant moments that often occurs tangentially to the practice. The book also calls for more outcry about sexual health and sexual violence, arguing for theatre-making as a route to multitudes of voices, nuanced understandings, and diverse spaces in which discussions of sexuality and sexual health are shared, felt, and experienced.
Reviews
“I was moved by this well researched and detailed read about the ongoing struggles in one of the world’s newest democracies. … I too want to reiterate that this book is a necessary contribution to the ongoing discussion around the need of more voices and more discussions on how to apply theatre to create social change. And, like Thompson, I want to add my voice to commend Low for … articulating the complexity of the work of an AT practitioner.” (Matthew Hahn, Journal of Applied Arts & Health, Vol. 13 (2), 2022)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Applied Theatre and Sexual Health Communication
Book Subtitle: Apertures of Possibility
Authors: Katharine E. Low
Series Title: Contemporary Performance InterActions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95975-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95974-7Published: 06 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95977-8Published: 06 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-95975-4Published: 05 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2634-5870
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5889
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 323
Topics: Performing Arts, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, African Culture, Applied Theatre, Performers and Practitioners