Kelsey Jacobson
Biographic Data
| ID | 7546879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kelsey Jacobson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kelsey |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacobson |
| SIGNATURE | JACOBSON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0919-1096 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Feeling together
News headlines post-pandemic question whether audience members have ‘forgotten how to behave’ amidst incidents of disruption to theatre performances, suggesting audience norms are in a time of renegotiation and expectations of what it means to be co-present are shifting. This article uses qualitative audience data solicited from spectators attending live, in-person performances in 2021 and 2022 to examine how audiences conceive of, value, and cul…
Pxr2020
What new insights and opportunities does virtual reality (VR) offer to theatre and performance? In turn, what potential might theatre offer to VR creators? This potentially fruitful cross-pollination was precisely what prompted host organizations Single Thread Theatre Company and Electric Company Theatre to program the inaugural Performance and XR Symposium in October 2020, a conference designed to foster and explore the relationship between thea…
Soundings
Kelsey Jacobson describes her experience as a spectator at the Ka’tarohkwi Festival of Indigenous Arts and the Soundings exhibition, both held at Queen’s University in March 2019. Reflecting on her own settler positionality, Jacobson considers how the performances and exhibitions employed defamiliarization, immersion, and participation to challenge audience members to consider what decolonization means to them, in the specific context of the trad…
Beyond mimesis to an assemblage of reals in the drama classroom
In this paper, the authors argue for novel, less mimetic, ways to harness ‘the real’ in drama practices. They study particular youth theatre-making practices in a Toronto secondary classroom, both successes and failures, to make the case for an untethering of ‘the real’ from realism’s representational aesthetics. They further track the more relational aesthetics at play for a group of young theatre-makers in their context of a multi-sited, global…
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Beyond mimesis to an assemblage of reals in the drama classroom
In this paper, the authors argue for novel, less mimetic, ways to harness ‘the real’ in drama practices. They study particular youth theatre-making practices in a Toronto secondary classroom, both successes and failures, to make the case for an untethering of ‘the real’ from realism’s representational aesthetics. They further track the more relational aesthetics at play for a group of young theatre-makers in their context of a multi-sited, global…
Soundings
Kelsey Jacobson describes her experience as a spectator at the Ka’tarohkwi Festival of Indigenous Arts and the Soundings exhibition, both held at Queen’s University in March 2019. Reflecting on her own settler positionality, Jacobson considers how the performances and exhibitions employed defamiliarization, immersion, and participation to challenge audience members to consider what decolonization means to them, in the specific context of the trad…
Pxr2020
What new insights and opportunities does virtual reality (VR) offer to theatre and performance? In turn, what potential might theatre offer to VR creators? This potentially fruitful cross-pollination was precisely what prompted host organizations Single Thread Theatre Company and Electric Company Theatre to program the inaugural Performance and XR Symposium in October 2020, a conference designed to foster and explore the relationship between thea…
Feeling together
News headlines post-pandemic question whether audience members have ‘forgotten how to behave’ amidst incidents of disruption to theatre performances, suggesting audience norms are in a time of renegotiation and expectations of what it means to be co-present are shifting. This article uses qualitative audience data solicited from spectators attending live, in-person performances in 2021 and 2022 to examine how audiences conceive of, value, and cul…
Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Political science (2 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (2 works) · Anthropology (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Art Education and Development (1 work)