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In this document I detail the inception of the community service learning program, Flashback, that I created for Actor's Youth Theatre of Mesa Arizona. I first provide the organization's history and then expound upon my beliefs and how the ASU theatre for youth program, along with the needs of AYT, led me to create the program. I then describe the goals and processes of implementing the community based project. I also define service learning and why the program was designed around its principles. Finally, I describe the program's curriculum, devising process and Flashback's first trial run, and then continue, evaluating the performance and reflecting upon the process. The appendix includes the devised script, photos of the performance and interaction with the community, some of the planned curriculum and portions of my journals written during the process.
ContributorsEllsworth, Marcus (Author) / Sterling, Pamela (Thesis advisor) / Bowditch, Rachel (Committee member) / Woodson, Stephani Etheridge (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2012
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ABSTRACT "In the Penal Colony" is a three-act play based on the original short story by Franz Kafka and adapted by ASU MFA playwright Christian Krauspe. Told in flashback-form; a lone female Traveler arrives at a nameless penal colony where she is asked to comment on an old execution device known simply as, "the apparatus." She is pressured by the colonies administration to condone the practice while simultaneously asked to endorse the machine by her guiding officer in hopes of preserving the mystical powers the apparatus seems to possess. The Traveler must make the choice to endorse or condone the machine while she faces her own demons in the process.
ContributorsKrauspe, Christian (Author) / Reyes, Guillermo (Thesis advisor) / Taylor, Philip (Committee member) / Sterling, Pamela (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2011
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The purpose of this study was to explore the ways in which childhood was perceived in the circuit Chautauqua movement. The methodology followed a threefold approach: first, to trace the development of the Chautauqua movement, thereby identifying the values and motivations which determined programming; next, to identify the major tropes of thought through which childhood has been traditionally understood; and finally, to do a performance analysis of the pageant America, Yesterday and Today to locate perceptions of childhood and to gain a better understanding of the purpose of this pageant. My principal argument is that the child's body was utilized as the pivotal tool for the ideological work that the pageant was designed to do. This ideological effort was aimed at both the participants and the audience, with the child's body serving as the site of education as well as signification. Through the physical embodiment and repetition of different roles, the children who participated performed certain values and cultural assumptions. This embodiment of values was expected to be retained and performed long after the performance was over - it was a form of training through pleasure.
ContributorsSchoenfelder, Joseph (Author) / Bedard, Roger (Thesis advisor) / Underiner, Tamara (Thesis advisor) / Sterling, Pamela (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2012
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It’s Not That Simple: A Complex Journey of an MFA Applied Project discusses the experience of graduate student, Molly W. Schenck. Schenck’s applied project, It’s Not That Simple, was an interdisciplinary dance theatre performance piece that challenges rape culture on college campuses. While the focus of the applied project was this performance, it was the obstacles and highlights that were related to the project that made the journey memorable. This paper will discuss the history and evolution of It’s Not That Simple, the creative process, the research, the trajectory of the project, and reflections on the journey.
ContributorsSchenck, Molly W (Author) / Schupp, Karen (Thesis advisor) / Kaplan, Robert (Committee member) / Sterling, Pamela (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2016
DescriptionThe Culminating Graduate Works of David Dudo.
ContributorsDudo, David James (Author) / Sterling, Pamela (Thesis advisor) / Mcmahon, Jeffery (Committee member) / Partlan, Bill (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2010