Futures of Performance: The Responsibilities of Performing Arts in Higher Education

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Futures of Performance inspires both current and future artists/academics to reflect on their roles and responsibilities in igniting future-forward thinking and practices for the performing arts in higher education. The book presents a breadth of new perspectives from the disciplines of music, dance, theatre, and mediated performance and from a range of institutional contexts. Chapters from teachers across various contexts of higher education are organized according to the three main areas of responsibilities of performing arts education: to academia, to society, and to the field as a whole. With the intention of illuminating the intricacy of how performing arts are situated and function in higher education, the book addresses key questions including: How are the performing arts valued in higher education? How are programs addressing equity? What responsibilities do performing arts programs have to stakeholders inside and outside of the academy? What are programs’ ethical obligations to students and how are those met? Futures of Performance examines these questions and offers models that can give us some of the potential answers. This is a crucial and timely resource for anyone in a decision-making position within the university performing arts sector, from administrators, to educators, to those in leadership positions. Cover Half Title Endorsements Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Contributors Introduction SECTION I: Responsibilities to Academia 1. Introduction 2. Performance Across the Disciplines: Envisioning Transdisciplinary Performance Pedagogies in Postsecondary Education 3. Ethics, Standards, Evaluation, and Support of Creative Research in Academia 4. Ugly Feelings and Social Justice: Interrupting Inaction in Times of Perpetual Crisis 5. Hosting Co(n)fusion: Art Residencies as Invitation-Practices 6. Decolonizing Tertiary Dance Education Through Including Student Voices in a Curricula Change Project 7. The Creative Spaces at HBCUs 8. Call of the Butterfly: The Tao of GenuineGenerosity SECTION II: Responsibilities to the Fields 9. Introduction 10. The Distance of Education 11. Performing Hartford: A Community Turns Its Head 12. Integrating Disciplines—Disciplining Integration: Opera Curriculum through a Transdisciplinary Counter-Critical Pedagogy 13. Sustainable Futures in Performance Practice, Production, and Distribution Ecologies 14. Fighting for Equity With(in) Parasitical Resistance 15. A Tertiary Music Performance Education Through a Lens of Entrepreneurship 16. “Undervalued, Underpaid, Underappreciated”: The Lived Experiences of Adjunct Faculty in the Performing Arts SECTION III: Responsibilities to Society 17. Introduction 18. Performing Arts Education for Democracies: Are We Cultivating Citizens or Docile Laborers? 19. Revitalizing the US Baccalaureate Dance Major: Integrating Values of Diversity and Interdisciplinarity 20. Interrogating the Academy’s Role in the Journey from Art Music to Heart Music 21. Toward a Pedagogy of Care: Well-Being, Grief, and Community-based Theatre’s Role in Higher Education 22. Arts Education in Community Colleges: A Critical Connection 23. Pedagogies of Critical Embodiment: Activating Submerged Histories, Moving Toward Anti-Racist Futures 24. The Performing Arts in the Next America: Preparing Students for Their Future Index