It was the purpose of this study to determine the effects of creative dramatics on divergent thinking in fifth grade children. The subjects (twenty-six fifth graders) were divided into control and treatment groups such that each group had an equal representation of male and female subjects. Prior to treatment, both groups of subjects were pre-tested using the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, Verbal Form A. During the treatment period, the control group continued their normal school activities; while the treatment group was exposed to fifteen forty-five minute creative dramatics sessions. Following the treatment period, the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, Verbal Form B was administered to both groups.The results of the data analysis indicated that treatment had a statistically significant effect (p<.02) upon the category of originality. Therefore, it is concluded that creative dramatics has a facilitating effect on the originality dimension of divergent thinking.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1974. / Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Robert Pace. Dissertation Committee: J. Marion Magill. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 130-133).

Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on June 9, 2009) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Bibliography: leaves 186-191. / This study documents Mavis Taylor's teaching of Improvisation at the University of Cape Town and provides a critical analysis of the improvisational methods she uses in the training of actors. It places her teaching within the wider field of improvisation understanding the importance of knowledge of 'self for the craft of acting. There is discussion around the role of the imagination and spontaneity in actor-training, and debate is raised regarding the concepts and practice of sensory and emotional memory training. The significance of teaching structure and form as a method for students to manipulate the medium of improvisation is argued, proposing that the creation of alternative meanings and 'realities' is the essence of acting.

This research investigates the drama eduction form of playbuilding, and particularly the phenomenon of kinaesthetic teaching and learning which is aimed at enhancing group imagination and creativity. Playbuilding is a process whereby groups of students devise and act in their own plays using a variety of dramatic elements and theatrical conventions. This research explores the playbuilding learning experiences of two secondary school drama classes and the playbuilding teaching experiences of four drama teachers. The research underpins current drama and theatre education praxis that relates to learning through embodiment, symbolic creativity, and the purpose and function of metaxis in a secondary drama classroom. The study relied on qualitative research grounded theory techniques, focus groups, student workbooks, classrooms practices, closed questionnaires, face to face interviews and videotaped materials. Central to this research are the phenomena of imagining and creating that occur in secondary drama playbuilding groups learning through a group kinaesthetic paradigm. This study concludes that there is a paradigm which identifies secondary drama students as group kinaesthetic learners, and that kinaesthetic teaching and learning practices open up pedagogic spaces in playbuilding that significantly improve the effectiveness of group embodied learning in drama education / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Based on theories from: Educational or Process Drama. Improvisaiional Theatre. Drama Therapy and Psychology: this thesis is an in depth exploration of a methodology for educational drama that can be used lo examine values. This method proposes a system that will assist participants to discover and assess their own altitudes and bring them into dialogue with other value systems. The theoretical focus of this thesis was drawn from selected theorists: Roai. Iz/.o. Panely, Vogler and Heathcole amongst others: which conlribuled to the establishment of a practical methodology that provides a process of self discovery through improvisational drama and role-play. The dichotomous relationship between art and nature (perceived rcalitx), allows the participant lo engage in the discourse of self evaluation and social conscientisaiion. The methodology is based on the narrative structure of myth and the archetypes that populate mythic landscapes. Myths relate the journey of a hero, who undergoes personal growth as the result of a change of perspective. This occurs during the hero's journey from her ordinary world to a special world where adventure and danger awaits. The hero must find the elixir that will heal her own wounds and the wounds of her communitw Ihe archetypes play a unique role in helping the hero lo face her own desires, values and altitudes and to lest these \ allies in the Ileal of physical battle or emotional turmoil. With Participatory Action Research as main methoclologv. the thesis used questionnaires, interviews, journal entries and dramatic workshops for data gathering. The longitudinal nature of this exploration look place over a period of two years and the cohort group comprised of adolescent girls and boys, aged 14 to 16 years. The research found that the method was very successful for inciting critical discussion and moral debate. In the safety of the dramatic context, the cohort group gained new understanding about the conflict between the good of the community verses the individuars desires. Consequently they were able to come to terms with those desires that influence their behaviour and talk about these in relation to other values. Keywords: Values interrogation, educational drama, process drama, drama therapy, drama journeys, improvisation, role-play, social conscicntisation. Tcmenos, dramatic play, educational play, archetypes, psychological transference, meaning making process, practical methodology, dichotomy. / Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2007.

The research field addressed by this thesis is the commedia dell'arte and its iconography in the period preceding Callot's Balli di Sfessania engravings of c. 1621. Its main aim is to provide a broad overview of the surviving early pictures in order to contribute towards a more detailed understanding of the history of the commedia deH'arte in the opening decades of its existence, 1560-1620, by using late renaissance pictures as a documentary source. My research method has three main steps. These are firstly, the identification of relevant pictures, on the basis of a detailed understanding of the early history of the commedia dell'arte, and taking a deliberately inclusive approach; secondly, the classification of such pictures according to art-historical methods, in order to associate them with specific named artists so that they can be placed in the context of an oeuvre and place of production; thirdly, interpretation of their theatrical content. Integral to the thesis are the 340 plates. Many feature pictures which were anonymous or implausibly attributed, and unknown to theatre historians, before they appeared here or in my publications. My inclusive approach has contributed towards the marked rehabilitation of carnival pictures which is evident in the most recent scholarship in this area. My new discoveries, and attributions and re-attributions of some of the 340 plates, summarized in the plate list, have enabled me to identify significant bodies of commedia-related pictures by a number of named late renaissance artists not previously associated with theatre iconography, and provide a broad overview of the early stock types, their costumes and settings; contributions which are stimulating further research in this area. Section I summarises the rise and spread of professional acting in sixteenth century Italy, some forerunners of the commedia dell'arte, and its early stock types. It also presents new documentary material, discovered in the course of my archival researches, which is relevant to the earliest commedia performance for which a comprehensive description survives, staged in Munich in 1568. Section II presents art-historical analyses of three groups of prints in Stockholm, and six paintings which are the subject of an article published in 1943. It also presents an overview of a large group of Flemish pictures whose relation to two Italian prints demonstrates the progressive stereotyping of commedia-related motifs which was already occurring around 1600. Section III offers theatrical interpretations of the pictures, concentrating on scenery, set and stages; actresses; a selection of stock characters, including Harlequin, Zanni and Pantalone, and also some less wellknown figures such as tedescos and matachins; and multiple and serial images. The renaissance Italian comedians' multiple roots in amateur humanist comedy, professional entertainment and popular carnival ritual gave them their early creativity and wide appeal, and left their mark on the iconography which, by the seventeenth century, like the commedia dell'arte itself, was, for the most part, settling into a predictable routine based on precedents and conventions.

Thesis (PhD) -- University of Western Sydney, 2003. / "Thesis submitted for Doctor of Philosophy October 2003." Accompany video shows Appendices 7.4 to 7.13 of thesis. References: leaves 290 - 325.

Orientador: Sara Pereira Lopes / Anexo 1 DVD-R: Curta-metragem Talita, Registro da partitura de ações da Clarissa: Exercicio n.2 / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-13T19:27:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ribas_MarianeMagno_D.pdf: 1815540 bytes, checksum: 7cb392739ddb202e7828dfe5c96606ef (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009 / Resumo: O texto que se constitui a seguir é uma extração dos processos empíricos com a imaginação do ator, trabalhada como ordenadora da presença cênica - ator e espaço . O trabalho desenvolvido e observado, em laboratório, teve como foco o processo criativo do ator; a partir do trabalho com as imagens apresentadas, atingir aquelas que emergem como conteúdo do agir e como meio de organização do tempo e do espaço, e ainda, como procedimento eficaz para que o ator possa evocar o seu próprio dizer. A partir destas formas de experimentação, aquilo que se configura como corpoator foi resultante do processo de preparação denominado nãoator - preparações específicas que criaram sustentáculos e ampliaram a consciência do ator sobre o corpoator e sobre seu ofício ; resultando da experiência um outro olhar denominado nãodireção / Abstract: This text is an extract of empirical processes with the imagination of the actor worked as orderer of the theatrical presence - actor and space. The work developed and observed, in laboratorial, had as a focus the creative process of the actor; departing from the work with the images presented, touch those that emerge as content of the action and as a means of organizing time and space, and also, as a effective procedure that allows the actor to evoke his own saying. Departing from these forms of experimentation, that which builds up as bodyactor resulted from a preparing process named nonactor - specific preparations that created a sustaining and broadened the conscience of the actor towards his bodyactor and over his office ; which resulted in another view named nondirection / Doutorado / Doutor em Artes

Orientador: Marcio Aurelio Pires de Almeida / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Artes / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-12T12:00:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 D'Abronzo_ThaisHelena_M.pdf: 13822273 bytes, checksum: 77a8dc9e522386cd8546fc5ed047a27a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: Este trabalho realiza uma reflexão sobre o processo de criação do espetáculo teatral intitulado Foi Tarde. Investiga alguns modos pelos quais a construção da imagem comparece em procedimentos de criação da cena teatral. Na construção do espetáculo, buscaram-se possíveis relações entre o Teatro da Morte (1975-1990) de Tadeusz Kantor e o texto dramatúrgico A Morta (1937) de Oswald de Andrade, principalmente quanto à "presença da morte" como condução poética. Um terceiro material a somar-se nesta relação viria a ser "o aspecto de exposição à morte em um ambiente hospitalar". À estruturação da cena pelas vias da imagem e à colisão dos materiais do processo criativo chamou-se, neste estudo, de artifícios da morte. No desenvolvimento, ocorre a descrição do processo criativo, e são apresentados o memorial e a escritura do espetáculo. O trabalho com as poéticas de Tadeusz Kantor e Oswald de Andrade solicitou uma abordagem sobre a relação entre o texto dramático e a escritura cênica, a partir do embate iniciado no final do séc. XIX e início do séc. XX. Para tanto, fez-se necessário o resgate de informações sobre o movimento simbolista e sobre as vanguardas históricas, como precursores de novos comportamentos artísticos e de paradigmas de construção teatral e dramática para o século XX e para a atualidade. Por fim, entende-se, que Tadeusz Kantor e Oswald de Andrade revelam, em seus trabalhos, influências e divergências com o simbolismo e com as vanguardas históricas, em nome de uma poética caracterizada pela presença da morte e pela autonomia da cena teatral pelas vias da imagem. Esta reflexão embasa, portanto, a poética de construção do espetáculo Foi Tarde, apresentado publicamente em montagem consonante aos princípios estéticos pretendidos / Abstract: This project accomplishes a reflection about the process of creation of the Foi Tarde (Gone Late) play. It investigates some ways trough which is present in procedures of the theatrical scene creation. In the construction of the spectacle, possible relation between the Teatro da Morte (Death Theatre) (1975-2000) of Tadeusz Kantor and the dramaturgic text A Morta (The Dead Woman)(1937) from Oswald de Andrade were searched, mainly about the "presence of the death" as a poetic conduction. A third material to be added to this relation happened to be "the aspect of the exposition to death in a hospital environment". The structuring of the scenes through the image pathways, and the collision of the materials of the creative process were called, in this project, death artifices. In the development, happens the description of the creative process, and are presented the memorial and the script of the spectacle. The work with Tadeusz Kantor and Oswald de Andrade poetics demanded an approach about the relation between the dramatic text and the performing arts scripts, from the clash started in the end of the XIX Century and early XX Century. For it, the rescue of the information about the symbolist movement and about the historical vanguard were made necessary, as precursors of new artistic behaviors and of paradigms of theatric and dramatic constructions for the XX Century and for the present time. At last, it is understood, that Tadeusz Kantor and Oswald de Andrade reveal, in their works, influences and divergences with the symbolism and with the historical vanguards, in the name of a poetics characterized by the presence of death and by the autonomy of the theatric scene through the image pathways. This reflection sustains, hence, the poetic of construction of the spectacle Foi Tarde(Gone Late), presented publicly in an assembling corresponding to the intended aesthetics principles / Mestrado / Mestre em Artes