TY - JOUR
T1 - Of models and mechanisms
T2 - towards an understanding of how theatre-making works as an ‘intervention’ in individual health and wellness
AU - Etheridge Woodson, Stephani
AU - Szkupinski Quiroga, Seline
AU - Underiner, Tamara
AU - Farid Karimi, Robert
N1 - Funding Information:
4. This research has been generously funded by seed grants from the Institute for Humanities Research at Arizona State University and ASU’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, and by a Research: Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2017/10/2
Y1 - 2017/10/2
N2 - Growing from a multi-year and multidisciplinary research and applied arts investigative team based in North America, this essay presents a model of how performative engagements contribute to individual behavioural change in wellness practices. To be even more specific, this essay analyses and theorises the mechanisms involved in the application of one particular art form to one particular pre-condition for health. The art form: applied theatre. The pre-condition: attitudes, behaviours and beliefs about healthy eating. The co-authors ask not ‘what can theatre-making do to have a positive effect on health-related attitudes and behaviors?’ but rather ‘how does it do that?’ and offer a model towards answering that question that might satisfy the needs of researchers in both applied theatre and health science.
AB - Growing from a multi-year and multidisciplinary research and applied arts investigative team based in North America, this essay presents a model of how performative engagements contribute to individual behavioural change in wellness practices. To be even more specific, this essay analyses and theorises the mechanisms involved in the application of one particular art form to one particular pre-condition for health. The art form: applied theatre. The pre-condition: attitudes, behaviours and beliefs about healthy eating. The co-authors ask not ‘what can theatre-making do to have a positive effect on health-related attitudes and behaviors?’ but rather ‘how does it do that?’ and offer a model towards answering that question that might satisfy the needs of researchers in both applied theatre and health science.
KW - Theatre-making
KW - applied theatre
KW - cooking classes
KW - culturally specific health promotion
KW - healthy eating
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U2 - 10.1080/13569783.2017.1366257
DO - 10.1080/13569783.2017.1366257
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85028576401
SN - 1356-9783
VL - 22
SP - 465
EP - 481
JO - Research in Drama Education
JF - Research in Drama Education
IS - 4
ER -