Shakespeare's Heartbeat
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-01696-5 (ISBN)
Over ten years, Hunter worked with children on all points of the spectrum, developing drama games for the specific purpose of combatting autism. These unique games, derived from specific moments in the plays, shed new light on how to teach Shakespeare to children, using the drama as an exploration of how it feels to be alive.
Shakespeare’s Heartbeat is a step-by-step guide, detailing how to demonstrate, play and share these sensory games. The book includes:
Games based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Games based on The Tempest
Tips and advice for playing one-on-one with the children
An afterword describing Hunter’s journey from performer and practitioner to creator of this work.
Shakespeare’s poetic definitions of seeing, thinking and loving reveal the very processes that children with autism find so difficult to achieve. This book provides an indispensable learning tool for those wishing to encourage children’s eye contact and facial expression, improve their spatial awareness and language skills and introduce them to imaginative play.
Kelly Hunter is an award-winning actor, director, and educator. As a performer she has worked for over thirty years, notably with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the highly-acclaimed Vesturport. In 2001 she created her own company - Touchstone Shakespeare Theatre - to bring Shakespeare to children with little or no access to the arts. She ran the company for four years, during which time she directed Dreams and Voices, a film which documents her work with autistic children and is available on the Routledge Performance Archive. In 2014 she directed a production of The Tempest for children with autism, which performed in Stratford upon Avon and Columbus Ohio. The show was a co-production between the Royal Shakespeare Company and Ohio State University, where her work forms the basis of a longitudinal research study. This research engages the question of whether drama – particularly Shakespeare - can break through the communicative blocks of autism and in particular whether these sensory drama games, known collectively as the Hunter Heartbeat Method can produce long term benefits for children with ASD.
Foreword by Robin Post
Introduction
Playing the games/Using the book
Part one A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Chapter 1 Games to begin
Chapter 2 Fairyland
Chapter 3 Dreams
Chapter 4 The Mechanicals
Chapter 5 The Lovers
Chapter 6 Darkness of night
Part two The Tempest
Chapter 7 Caliban
Chapter 8 Ariel
Chapter 9 Miranda and Ferdinand
Chapter 10 The clowns
Chapter 11 Magic
Chapter 12 Resource for playing with the children
Afterword
Epilogue by Marc Tasse
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 21.11.2014 |
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| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 408 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sonder-, Heil- und Förderpädagogik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-138-01696-9 / 1138016969 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-01696-5 / 9781138016965 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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