This article describes the critical process drama framework and highlights its potential to disrupt the status quo through an agenda of exploration and wonder. Generated through arts-based research exploring process drama as an enactment of critical pedagogy, the cumulative case study drew upon a...

Aim: This mixed-methods exploratory study investigates the perceived health benefits of singing in a choir from an international sample of choristers. Method: An online questionnaire including demographic information, 28 quantitative statements and two qualitative questions relating to the...

This article describes the history of the Aotearoa Traditional Maori Performing Arts Festival between the years 1972 and 2000. It reveals a series of tensions between a need to express a cultural identity and financial constraint, between a wish for expressing independence and a subsequent...

Engaging a feminist ethnographic methodology, this article offers a discussion of women's embodied experiences of wellbeing in intergenerational somatic dance classes. Somatic dance classes aim to develop embodied awareness, support ease and freedom in movement, and offer opportunities for...

Despite challenges arising from a limited population and the difficulty of obtaining adequate funding, both the film and television industries of New Zealand have been the source of significant achievements and profound cultural influence. Charting their emergence and subsequent development through ...

Artistic work in Aotearoa has long been underpaid and undervalued. In this paper, we examine policy statements made by the New Zealand government from September 2017 until November 2020 about the nature and value of artistic work. Early statements appear to challenge the economization of the arts,...

Living sustainable lifestyles that meet the needs of current generations without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs has become a driving force for social change. Music festivals are contextualized within this setting and can provide both a site to encourage...

The 'kiwi bloke' - practical, tough, and unemotional - is a national archetype of masculinity based on a colonial settler history in New Zealand/Aotearoa. Such nationally specific masculinities, however, are always created in relation to international forces. This study reveals the ways men...

One can assume that there is most likely not a single person in the western world who has not been to a cinema, nor seen a trailer for a film to be released. This paper discusses consumer expectation influencers of film content and quality based on exploratory qualitative research using the...

Some of the perennial tensions in applied theatre arise from the ways in which practice is funded or financed. They include the immediate material pressures and pragmatic dilemmas faced by theatre makers on the ground and the struggle to secure the resources needed to produce and sustain work or to ...