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The Daily Sun, Daily Amader Orthoneeti, Sun Academia, News Today and Metro report on series of workshops titled, “Effective Education for the 21 Century,” held in Dhaka, Bangladesh May 2011 and co-sponsored by Daffodil International University and the East Side Institute. Read
ABC Eyewitness News, December 2007, In tonight's extra, learning like you've never seen it before! Improvisation as a learning tool. We know it works in comedy but now in 30 schools in our area it is also working in the classroom. And, in the process, giving kids a sense of what's possible... View Clip
Theatre for social transformation, Dramatool.org, 22 October 2007 Performing The World 4
More than 250 practitioners and scholars participated in Performing The World 4 (PTW4) just outside New York, between October 12-14, in roundtable debates and workshops that looked at and rehearsed social transformation. The conference met IDEA President Dan Baron Cohen who presented IDEA's key aims and projects, and was completely seduced by 25 military police from north-east Brazil whose dance theatre workshops and performances aim at building inclusion, citizenship and social transformation. Read More
Teaching Improv to Teachers, WNYC Radio, Beth Fertig
"Improv is usually associated with comedy groups like the Upright Citizen's Brigade or Chicago's Second City. But classroom teachers also use improvisation exercises to help their students work together and become more creative. A new program is training city teachers how to use these improv technigues..." Read More
Improvisation Boosts Reading in Poor Inner City School, Good News Network
"Rachel Farmer is a fourth-grade teacher in Brooklyn who defies the stereotype of the exhausted teacher, run down by poor inner-city schools. Instead of burned-out, Rachel is lit up -- and so are her students. The kids read more books than any other class in the city of New York, placing them at the pinnacle of NYC's Accelerated Reading Program. This is a story of how Rachel beat the odds using a playful (improvisational) approach to teaching..." Read more
School of knock-knocks: Comedy schools aren't all just for laughs, Columbia News Service, Eddie Vega, " A sudden horror: the kind that sears itself into memory and resurfaces in recurring nightmares, the kind that wrecks nascent careers, the kind aspiring comic Bradley Moore experienced at age 6. Alone on stage in a room large enough to swallow his lanky frame, he faced a caboodle of glaring parents and other children his age..." Read more
A Performance to Become Who We Are Not, Spirituality and Health, Betsy Robinson
"What if you aren’t good at relationships, a "group person," a joiner, a team player? What if group activity connotes strain or anxiety that you’d rather avoid? Maybe you have even convinced yourself that you could realize God by sitting alone on a mountaintop, meditating. And it was a rude awakening to find that it is the friction of relationship that leads to God. So now you’re really stuck, unable to believe in the path of isolation and clueless about how to cope in life’s communities. Where do you go for help?..." Read more
African activists take the stage at New York performance summit, New York Amsterdam News, Kitche Magak
Health care activists, educators and therapists working in South Africa, Malawi, Senegal and Kenya came together last week for the third biennial performance summit, Performing the World 3, sponsored by the East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy, an international research and training center for new approaches to human development..." Read More
Lois Holzman interviewed by Ricardo Lana on the radio in Brazil, 2011. Listen
Carrie Lobman interviewed on BlogTalkRadio by Steve and Mary Alice, 2011. Listen
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