Mind the gap! Creating a community between teacher-actors and toddler-spectators in a performative event

This article is based on an inquiry into the framing of artistic effects in space and addresses the interactions between two-year-old children and adult performers. I discuss how the traditional communication gap between actor and audience can be surmounted. My study is a crossover between performance art and drama pedagogy, which I describe as an interactive scenic playground. I will discuss how toddlers can be active participants in performance art by employing the materials and actions used by skilled kindergarten teachers. Specifically, these include clearly expressing expected intentions, bodily behaviours and social interactions.

Författare: Anne Lise Nordbø

Mind the gap! Creating a community between teacher-actors and toddler-spectators in a performative event

Educational Inquiry Volume 3, No. 3, September 2012