| Autor: |
Alexandrowicz, Conrad |
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Theatre, Dance & Performance Training; Oct2012, Vol. 3 Issue 3, p288-301, 14p |
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This paper examines a broadly based and pervasive cultural pattern – the media-driven campaign of the sexualisation of girls and young women – and its effects on physical theatre training in particular, and on theatre pedagogy as a whole. This article argues that these sexualising discourses have measureable negative effects on the capacities of female acting students in physical theatre training. The piece originated in observations collected over years of classroom experience, and produces its results based on observable differences rather than hard data. The effects of sexualising influences on student actors' work are tested by summarising gender differences in the realisation of an assignment that tends to reveal such differences in a marked manner. Offered in support of the hypothesis is the body of evidence assembled as part of the Report of the Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls commissioned by the American Psychological Association, and the case is made that conventionalised notions of the feminine play into the hegemony of psychological realism in most university theatre programmes in North America. The article concludes by proposing specific strategies that instructors might employ to counteract sexualising effects by raising the issues surrounding this cultural pattern, and by undertaking specific interventions in the classroom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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