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PERFORMANCE IS “a system of learning, storing, and transmitting knowledge” (Taylor, 16). By focusing on “embodied practice/knowledge” (19), Rogue seeks to reinvigorate and supplement current educational systems in order to improve learning.

 

Rogue's practice is divided into three parts. First, we seek to train performing artists in their own craft. This is so we have a base of teaching artists from which to draw for our other activities, but also to improve the quality of artists within the culture industry. Our approach to training focuses on the whole artist as an instrument for the production of art, whether that art be dramatic, musical, terpsichorean, etc. We are open to a wide range of techniques, as long as they support the body as it functions artistically as well as in everyday life.

 

Second, we seek to support educators and administrators through professional development, in-school performances, and consulting. We are interested in making arts integration seem not only simple, but also vital to students' learning. We are also interested in promoting the idea that the classroom is not confined to a room in a schoolhouse; learning can and does happen everywhere. We believe in a learning that is centered on the student (or learner), and we are interested in the kind of project-based learning (PBL) promoted by the International Baccalaureate Organization, though our workshops and methods are designed to be incredibly flexible. Our approach focuses on the whole student as an instrument for learning.

 

Third, we seek to produce performances and workshops open to the public. Such performances will be staged with an eye towards building a community of learners (though this may not be overtly stated). A bit of Brecht, Boal, Grotowski, and Suzuki inform these performances. We will borrow from history in order to shape a better tomorrow.

 

Our goal is to foster better learning so that we (humankind) will all benefit. Nothing we do is for ourselves; everything is for everyone. As such, we echo the sentiments of the Combahee River Collective and pledge ourselves to a learning and an art-making that is open, intersectional, and attentive.

 

Rogue Pedagogy was founded by Kevin F. Story in 2019. It's a theatre company stretching the definition of what a theatre company is. It's been said, usually by people opposed to it, that learning is dangerous. For the sake of the whole world, we invite you to be dangerous.

 

[ Reference ]

Diana Taylor, The Archive and the Repertoire (Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2003).