Performing Arts in Prisons : Creative Perspectives.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contens -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Introduction: Performing arts in prisons - creative perspectives -- Chapter 1: A correctional perspective on the creative arts in prisons -- Chapter 2: Geese Theatre Company - 30 years on -- Chapter 3: One Mob Different Country: First Peoples of Australia dance in Darwin Prison -- Chapter 4: 'This place is full of drama queens': Reflecting on the value of drama in a women's prison -- Chapter 5: Through the looking glass: A voice from the inside -- Chapter 6: Breaking the fifth wall: How performance might assist desistance from crime -- Chapter 7: Drumming interventions in Australian prisons: Insights from the Rhythm2Recovery model -- Chapter 8: Arts in Corrections New Zealand -- Chapter 9: The play's the thing: Performance in Prison Shakespeare -- Chapter 10: 'Heart and heartbeat': Working beyond prison theatre, performing protagonismo social in the real world -- Chapter 11: 'Strategies for success': Trusting the power of the arts -- 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 -- Chapter 13: Unlocked: Prison poetry workshops as a key to engaging inmates -- Chapter 14: 'Music is the colour of my skin': The story of the Murru Band -- Concluding reflections -- Index -- Back Cover.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.