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Author: Dovey, Gerard Timothy × End date: 2009 × Type: Masters Research thesis × Subject: teaching ×

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    Education and training for mask theatre
    Dovey, Gerard Timothy ( 1991)
    Mask is neglected in contemporary Western theatre, and yet the West has a cultural need for mask, because of its function as a tool for exploring and enabling relationship between the individual, the community and the environment. Curriculum in mask is based upon transitional experience, whereby the student is brought to realize, through dialogue, a relationship between themselves and the mask. This relationship engages the student subjectively as well as objectively. The role of the teacher, of both mask making as well as mask animation, is to deepen the relationship the student has with the mask. The mask making curriculum is about finding methods for the realization of Impulse. Impulse is the result of dialogue between the mask maker and the emerging mask. The mask making process is about finding a visual language for analysis and development of the emerging mask. The mask animation curriculum involves finding methods for developing and deepening a relationship with mask. This occurs through play, the student exploring and deepening their response to the mask within a heightened realization of the mask's cultural meaning.