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Empowering Collective Performing Arts: A Facilitator's Toolkit for Overcoming Language Barriers (last edited: 2025)

Alice Presencer
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'Empowering Collective Performing Arts: A Facilitator’s Toolkit for Overcoming Language Barriers' is a practice-led research project that explores the ways to encourage group connection through non-textual, embodied communication within diverse communities. Drawing on work experience with immigrant children, refugees, and deaf/hearing collaborators—as well as recent research residencies with ASSITEJ Norway, The Flying Seagulls and Red Nose Emergency Smiles—the project contains a growing body of facilitation strategies as an open-source toolkit. Rooted in my personal experience of linguistic displacement and background in voice and dance, this project proposes a shift away from text-centric facilitation models toward approaches that prioritise emotional intuition and situational awareness. The project is underpinned by critical frameworks around embodied knowledge, power, and positionality, aiming to challenge colonial and exclusionary norms around communication. Ultimately, it seeks to empower facilitators and communities alike to trust in the expressive potential of the body and encourage inclusive, trust-based spaces for collective performing arts experiences.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsfacilitator, facilitation, art, performing arts, culture, Health, Language, barriers, boundaries., pedagogy, collective research in arts, group work, tools and techniques, tools, toolkit, affect, situational, Social science, socially engaged art, community, community based art work
date26/05/2025
last modified28/05/2025
statusin review
share statuspublic
affiliationRed Nose Emergency Smile
copyrightAlice Presencer
licensePublic domain
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3711182/3711183
external linkhttps://www.alicepresencer.com/


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