Michael Balfour & Brydie-Leigh Bartleet 
Performing Arts in Prisons [EPUB ebook] 
Captive Audiences

Performing Arts in Prisons explores prison arts in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom and Chile, and creates a new framework for understanding its practices. There is a growing body of evidence that suggests music, theatre, poetry and dance can contribute to prisoner wellbeing, management, rehabilitation and reintegration. Performing Arts in Prisons represents a range of distinct perspectives on thesubject, from an inspector of prisons to the voice of the prisoner. The book includes a spectrum of arts approaches and models of practice alongside theory, critical commentary and accounts of personal experience to present a full analysis of the value and effects of creative arts in prison.

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Preface

Introduction: Performing arts in prisons – creative perspectives
M. Balfour, B.-L. Bartleet, L. Davey, J. Rynne and H. Schippers

Chapter 1: A correctional perspective on the creative arts in prisons
A. Day

Chapter 2: Geese Theatre Company – 30 years on
L. Heywood, A. Watson MBE and M. Balfour

Chapter 3: One Mob Different Country: First Peoples of Australia dance in Darwin Prison
J. Rynne, D. Lew Fatt and B. Schroder

Chapter 4: ‘This place is full of drama queens’: Reflecting on the value of drama in a women’s prison
S. Woodland

Chapter 5: Through the looking glass: A voice from the inside
Anya (pseudonym)

Chapter 6: Breaking the fifth wall: How performance might assist desistance from crime
L. Davey

Chapter 7: Drumming interventions in Australian prisons: Insights from the Rhythm2Recovery model
S. Faulkner and B.-L. Bartleet

Chapter 8: Arts in Corrections New Zealand
J. Moyes

Chapter 9: The play’s the thing: Performance in Prison Shakespeare
R. Pensalfini

Chapter 10: ‘Heart and heartbeat’: Working beyond prison theatre, performing protagonismo social in the real world
P. Glass

Chapter 11: ‘Strategies for success’: Trusting the power of the arts
M. Clarke

Chapter 12: Performing arts activities with hopes to build positive self-identity, heal harms and broaden the US public’s perceptions of people inside prisons
M. L. Cohen

Chapter 13: Unlocked: Prison poetry workshops as a key to engaging inmates
J. Featherstone and H. Schippers

Chapter 14: ‘Music is the colour of my skin’: The story of the Murru Band
D. Billing and D. Palmer

Concluding reflections
M. Balfour, B.-L. Bartleet, L. Davey, J. Rynne and H. Schippers

Index

Despre autor

Huib Schippers is Affiliate Professor of music education at the University of Washington School of Music.