Main description:

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 the various contexts of the US higher education system 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 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.

Contents:

Section 1: Responsibilities to Academia

Section I Introduction
Karen Schupp

Performance Across the Disciplines: Envisioning Transdisciplinary Performance Pedagogies in Postsecondary Education
Jesse Katen

Ethics, Standards, Evaluation, and Support of Creative Research in Academia
Ali Duffy, Isabella Gonzales, and Destanie Davidson Preston

Ugly Feelings and Social Justice: Interrupting Inaction in Times of Perpetual Crisis
Lauren Kapalka Richerme

Hosting Co(n)fusion: Art Residencies as Invitation-Practices
Janaina Moraes

Decolonizing Tertiary Dance Education Through Including Student Voices in a Curricula Change Project
Camilla Reppen, Lovisa Lundgren, and Tone Pernille Ostern

The Creative Spaces at HBCUs
Avis HatcherPuzzo, Soni Martin, Denise Murchison Payton, and Amanda Virelles

Call of the Butterfly: The Tao of GenuineGenerosity
Robert Farid Karimi

Section 2: Responsibilities to the Fields

Section II Introduction
Karen Schupp

The Distance of Education
Adesola Akinleye

Performing Hartford: A Community Turns its Head
Rebecca Pappas

Integrating Disciplines-Disciplining Integration: Opera Curriculum through a Transdisciplinary Counter-Critical Pedagogy
Kevin Skelton

Sustainable Futures in Performance Practice, Production, and Distribution Ecologies
Max Bernstein

Fighting for Equity With(in) Parasitical Resistance
Jessica Rajko

A Tertiary Music Performance Education Through a Lens of Entrepreneurship
Deanna Swoboda

"Undervalued, Underpaid, Underappreciated": The Lived Experiences of Adjunct Faculty in the Performing Arts.
Karen Schupp, Artemis Preeshl, and Joya Scott

Section 3: Responsibilities to Society

Section III Introduction
Karen Schupp

Performing Arts Education for Democracies: Are We Cultivating Citizens or Docile Laborers?
Robin Prichard

Revitalizing the US Baccalaureate Dance Major: Integrating Values of Diversity and Interdisciplinarity
Sherrie Barr and Wendy Oliver

Interrogating the Academy's Role in the Journey from Art Music to Heart Music
Fiona Evison

Toward a Pedagogy of Care: Well-being, Grief, and Community-based Theatre's Role in Higher Education
Rivka Eckert

Arts Education in Community Colleges: A Critical Connection
Amy C. Parks

Pedagogies of Critical Embodiment: Activating Submerged Histories, Moving Toward Anti-Racist Futures
Dasha A. Chapman

The Performing Arts in the Next America: Preparing Students for Their Future

Peter Witte