Here are highlights from the recent colloquium, The Changing Face of Criticism in the Digital Age, held at Brock University this March. Videos edited by Dramatic Arts students Jessica De Hoog, Emily Ferrier, Misha Harding, James Keating, Nicholas Leno, Brianne Lidstone, Hayley Malouin, and Kendra Neaves. Theatre in Nia…
Embedded criticism involves an arts writer following a creative process closely and generating writing about the process that reflects this insider knowledge. The term was coined by London (UK)-based theatre critic and blogger Andrew Haydon in April 2012 and expanded on by the New York City-based arts writer and advoca…
DART student Tara Johnston (at podium) shares research with the “Critics, Bloggers, and Cultural Legitimation” panel DART student Kendra Neaves (at podium), Jill Dolan, Richard Ouzounian (Toronto Star), Karen Fricker Marilyn I. Walker, benefactor of the Walker Cultural Leaders series and the Marilyn I. Walker School of…
Guest of honour Jill Dolan: the feminist spectator in action, at Brock DART student Angie Colosimo’s doodle of the Critics and Niagara panel Stephen Remus (centre, Niagara Artists Centre) with Steve Solski and Jill Dolan The multimedia environment in Sankey Chambers Monica Dufault (left, Essential Collective Theatre) w…
20 February 2014: As part of their preparation for our colloquium, The Changing Face of Theatre Criticism in the Digital Age, the DARTcritics undertook research on a number of critics, bloggers, and others with an interest in their work, looking in particular at how online forms of communication (including social medi…
As part of their participation in Jill Dolan’s visit to Brock and the theatre criticism colloquium, a group of DARTcritics have imagined a utopian theatre community online. Here is a link to their research on this: http://utopiantheatre.wordpress.com