Undergraduate Teaching – course development, course convening, in-class and online teaching for the Creative and Performing Arts major of the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Creative Industries at the University of Newcastle (2004-2021)
- masks as tools for the gestural and physical training of performers
- socially engaged arts practices (Applied Theatre)
- improvisation and play as pedagogical tools for creative production
- acting pedagogies and genealogies (Stanislavski, Meyerhold’s biomechanics, Lecoq, Copeau)
- Australian theatre/performance
- theatre histories
- contemporary performance practices and environments (eg immersive, promenade, interactive, live art, performance art) and new media technologies in performance
- devising new works
- popular entertainments
Honours supervision
- Performer histories and the archive
- Applied Theatre projects
- the role of the dramaturg in devising
- Australian physical theatre
- puppets and technology
- Lecoq techniques in devising
Postgrad supervision – I supervise Honours, Masters and PhD candidates in Theatre and Performance Studies and co-supervise candidates with a theatre/performance focus in the discipline domains of Fine Art, English and Creative Writing, Education, Anthropology.
Associate Professor Gillian Arrighi 