• A theatre experiment : a research paradigm with applications for second language learning? 

  Ulbricht, Natasha Janzen; Kruger, Marlene (Taylor and Francis, 2023-04-29)

  Research on performative teaching has expanded in recent decades. This growth has been accompanied by interest in evidence-based practice and evaluation. However, experimentation is complex and classroom-based researchers ...
• Training strategies towards performing emotions on film : an integrated approach 

  Bester, Lelia; Munro, Marth (Routledge, 2024)

  South African film budgets do not allow for extensive preparation and rehearsal periods. South African film actors prepare their portrayal of emotion as part of their performance scores in isolation and are expected to ...
• Maintaining the consent-bubble : an intimacy coordinator’s perspective on touch in performance training 

  Haarhoff, Èmil; Lush, Kate (Taylor and Francis, 2023)

  This article sets out to argue that purposefully consenting to touch constructs a metaphorical ‘consent-bubble’ in which only those invited into its parameters (often not including the IC, facilitator or teacher) may engage ...
• Touch and consent : towards an ethics of care in intimate performance 

  Coetzee, Marie-Heleen; Groves, Kaitlin (Taylor and Francis, 2023)

  Our personal experiences as women working in the performing arts and entertainment sector indicate to us that there is a need for actron-training that includes articulated pedagogical framework and methodological approaches ...
• Touch as a feedback loop : exercising the leap from inertia to activation 

  Johnstone, Kristina (Taylor and Francis, 2023)

  This article critically reflects on the facilitation of embodied practice in virtual spaces of teaching, learning and creation, specifically looking at ways of facilitating touch within the broader context of decolonising ...
• The post-heroism of Stuur groete aan Mannetjies Roux and Verraaiers 

  Britz, Danielle; Broodryk, Chris Willem (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2023-05-08)

  There is much scholarship on the linkages between Afrikaner nationalism and South African (Afrikaans-language) filmmaking. Within the context of a sustained post-apartheid renegotiation of Afrikaans or Afrikaner nationalism ...
• Slow beauty : refocusing Oliver Hermanus's Skoonheid through a slow cinema lens 

  Wanyonyi, Emmanuel S. (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2023-04-24)

  Oliver Hermanus's Skoonheid is often read as a representation of South African queer realities and political progressiveness both during and since the dissolution of apartheid. Consequently, Hermanus's contribution to the ...
• New Afrikaans-language cinemas 

  Broodryk, Chris Willem (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2023-04)

  No abstract available.
• Redemption in the South African west : violence, colonialism and oppression in Five Fingers for Marseilles (2018) 

  Broodryk, Chris Willem; Joynt, Shaun (Routledge, 2021)

  In the South African Sesotho-language Western Five Fingers for Marseilles (2018), Tau flees his hometown of Marseilles in the aftermath of a violent incident. Returning after apartheid ended, Tau finds his hometown in ruins ...
• The South African live events, technical and production services industry’s market position and COVID-19 funding implications 

  Roux, Therese; Coetzee, Marie-Heleen (Routledge, 2022)

  COVID-19 has had a significant economic impact on a global scale. The national lockdown, enacted through the Disaster Management Act 57 of 2002, disrupted multiple economic activities, including that of the Creative and ...
• The theatre of development : dramaturgy, actors and performances in the ‘workshop space’ 

  Shutt, Helen E.; Martin, Laura S.; Coetzee, Marie-Heleen (Routledge, 2023)

  This article explores performance within development spaces. Dramaturgy, a concept deriving from theatre studies, can be understood as an analytical lens that examines the various roles and performances of different ‘actors’ ...
• Embracing aporia : exploring arts-based methods, pain, “playfulness,” and improvisation in research on gender and social violence 

  Forcer, Stephen; Shutt, Helen; Martin, Laura S.; Coetzee, Marie-Heleen; Ibrahim, Aisha Fofana; Fitzmaurice, Susan (Oxford University Press, 2022-10)

  This article explores the role of play and playfulness—as both methodological and analytical tools—in research on social violence. While play may seem antithetical to both discussions on methods and to studying social ...
• Navigating dissonance : bodymind and character congruency in acting 

  Haarhoff, Emil Ernst; Munro, Marth; Coetzee, Marie-Heleen (Pretoria University Law Press, 2022)

  This chapter sets out to create an embodied approach for responsibly navigating actor-character dissonance in performance. Actors attempt to enflesh characters in performance. Enfleshment is the subjective, deliberate ...
• Productive docile bodies in Zimbabwean dance training : the African body in classical ballet training at Afrikera Arts Trust 

  Zhuwawo, Alina; Sibanda, Nkululeko (Routledge, 2021)

  In this paper, we deploy Foucault’s theories of power to interrogate body politics in ballet training in Zimbabwe. To achieve this, we critically examine instances of ballet-related discourse-induced docility occurring in ...
• (Re-)interpretations and (re-)creations in contemporary Afrikaans cinema : adapting popular non-fiction into popular film in Vergeet My Nie (Forget Me Not) 

  Prinsloo, Tarryn-Tanille; Broodryk, Chris Willem (Afrikaanse Letterkundevereniging, 2021-05)

  Afrikaans film adaptations offer exciting opportunities for exploring the productive tensions between the source material and the adapted work. In this article, the authors aim to explore, by way of a case study, which key ...
• Resistance, struggle and protest against genocide and incarceration : The case of Talitha Koum – Someone lied! and 1983 – Years Before and After 

  Sibanda, Nkululeko; Moyo, Cletus (Routledge, 2021)

  This article positions theatre as a site for victims and activists to action their resistance against Gukurahundi related incarceration and human rights abuse perpetrated in the 1980s. Through case studying Talitha Koum ...
• The mediality of pre-recorded digital performing arts on YouTube : a skills-development module 

  Faber, Stephen; Coetzee, Marie-Heleen; Munro, Marth (Routledge, 2020)

  This article assessed the efficacy of a skills-development module in pre-recorded digital performing arts (PRDPA) that was presented as an online workshop within the South African educational paradigm. The PRDPA module ...
• Mapping places and identities through contemporary Bulawayo popular song texts 

  Sibanda, Nkululeko; Dhlamini, Nozizwe (Routledge, 2020)

  In this article, the authors examine the symbiotic relationship that exists between places and identities in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, through contemporary song texts. They borrow Julia Kristeva’s concept of intertextuality to ...
• Neoliberalism and theatre training in Zimbabwean higher education : the case of Midlands State University 

  Sibanda, Nkululeko (Institute for Education Policy Studies, 2020)

  In this account, I engage how Midlands State University through its Film and Theatre Arts Studies programme responded and continues to respond to the neoliberalisation of higher and tertiary education in Zimbabwe. I argue ...
• Variation in Botryosphaeriaceae from Eucalyptus plantations in YunNan Province in southwestern China across a climatic gradient 

  Li, Guoqing; Slippers, Bernard; Wingfield, Michael J.; Chen, ShuaiFei (BioMed Central, 2020-12)

  The Botryosphaeriaceae accommodates many important pathogens of woody plants, including Eucalyptus. Recently, Botryosphaeriaceae were isolated from diseased plant parts from surveys of Eucalyptus plantations in the ...

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