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SARAH AUSTIN

Lecturer in Theatre (Creative arts and writing)

Melbourne, Australian

Sarah is an award-winning artist with a specific expertise in working with children and young people. She is currently the Course Coordinator of the Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre) at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.

Publications

  • Children's Voices in Performance Research: A Reflection on Absences and Presences
  • Won’t somebody please think of the children? Their agency is ignored in the moral panic around drag storytime
  • Hold On: Australian Innovations in Access Aesthetics
  • Toward an Ethical Practice: Child Performers in Contemporary Performance for Adult Audiences
  • Working with Children: Elasticity, Creativity, and Disruption
  • The last avant garde?
  • Ethics, Agency and Disruption: Toward a rights-based practice of working with children in contemporary performance
  • Dramaturgy and Emerging Artists
  • Mike Parr and the discursive rupture: the condemned and punished body as a political strategy in "Close the Concentration Camps
  • Beyond Access: The Creative Case for Inclusive Arts Practice
  • When the World Turns is a profoundly moving theatrical experience for children with complex disabilities
  • Responding to a hunger for cultural change: A workshop on creating brave spaces for collaboration,
  • Conclusion: practicing interdependency, sharing vulnerability, celebrating complexity - the future of disability arts, culture, and media research
  • An Uncertain Time: An investigation of theatre for babies
  • Brave Space’: Investigating Consent and Boundaries as a Framework for Culturally Safe Collaborative Arts Practice
  • Rising has yet to establish its voice- but this year's festival gave us significant and thrilling work by First Nations artists
  • Brave Spaces: Pedagogical approaches to building an inclusive and consent-based culture of collaboration with students of theatre and performance.
  • Children, Agency, Authenticity, and Contemporary Performance
  • Case Study: Fraught Outfit's Book of Exodus Part I
  • Working with Children in Contemporary Performance
  • Introduction
  • Outlining Key Terms and Frameworks
  • Historical and Pedagogical Models of Children in Performance
  • The Symbolic Child and Children in Performance for Adult Audiences
  • Establishing a Rights-Based Framework of Practice
  • Conclusion
  • 'Brave Space': Investigating Consent and Boundaries as a Framework for Culturally Safe Collaborative Arts Practice
  • An Uncertain Time: Embodying Acts of Solidarity and Assembling Community in Theatre for the Early Years

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