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Eco-Theatre and New Media: Devising Toward Transnational Balance Marnie Jane Glazier Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Glazierjn@Aol.Com Southern Illinois University Carbondale OpenSIUC Dissertations Theses and Dissertations 8-1-2012 Eco-Theatre and New Media: Devising Toward Transnational Balance Marnie Jane Glazier Southern Illinois University Carbondale, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations Recommended Citation Glazier, Marnie Jane, "Eco-Theatre and New Media: Devising Toward Transnational Balance" (2012). Dissertations. Paper 564. This Open Access Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses and Dissertations at OpenSIUC. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of OpenSIUC. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ECO-THEATRE AND NEW MEDIA: DEVISING TOWARD TRANSNATIONAL BALANCE by Marnie J. Glazier B.A., Trinity College, 1996 M.A., Trinity College, 2002 M.F.A., University of Iowa, 2006 A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy Department of Speech Communication in the Graduate School Southern Illinois University Carbondale August 2012 DISSERTATION APPROVAL ECO-THEATRE AND NEW MEDIA: DEVISING TOWARD TRANSNATIONAL BALANCE By Marnie J. Glazier A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the field of Speech Communication: Theatre/Performance Studies Approved by: Chair, Dr. Anne Fletcher Dr. Ronald Pelias Dr. Jonathan Gray Dr. Mary Bogumil Pinckney Benedict Graduate School Southern Illinois University Carbondale 27 April 2012 AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF MARNIE J. GLAZIER, for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in SPEECH COMMUNICATION: THEATRE/PERFORMANCE STUDIES, presented on 27 April 2012, at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. TITLE: ECO-THEATRE AND NEW MEDIA: DEVISING TOWARD TRANSNATIONAL BALANCE MAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr. Anne Fletcher This dissertation seeks to address the pivotal ecological and technological realities of the twenty-first century, currently giving rise to new patterns of existence and new paradigms of human inquiry. This study will ask how technological innovation and environmental urgency have altered the ways in which human beings think, and thus perceive the world around them, changing human behavior, or non-behavior, and calling forth new imperatives for the arts, and namely for the Theatre. Most significantly, the dissertation attempts to traverse the shadow-lands, between our ecologies and our technologies, exploring those essential points of convergence in the borderlands where Eco-Theatre and New Media must find a precious balance. As digital media and new technologies continue to transcend previously conceived barriers, so do new opportunities present themselves. New forms emerge, bridging cultures, facilitating connections of thought beyond national geographic boundaries. Rising to the challenge − seeking a global, even playing ground in a liminal age of shifting, invisible borders − this dissertation addresses the current need for re- envisioning of our positionality as artists, and as citizens of the world. In conclusion, the dissertation points toward a methodology of interdisciplinary creative collaboration, of global community-based social practice art, of theatre ecology, and of active new media strategies to address the needs of this decisive age. i DEDICATION I dedicate this work to my children, my two suns, my two bright all-ways shining boys. May these ideas and the conversations they share in, inspire you to go on dreaming, believing, being − actors in the rich pageant of our planet's future. Fig. 1. Silas Glazier, Photograph of John, Alden and Silas Glazier, 3 Mar 2012. ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to acknowledge my parents and my parents-in-law, the spirited Merrill's, the inspired Richards's, the inventive Glazier's, the spit-fire Monahan-Kelly's− the brothers and sisters who were and are co-parents, and the grandparents and great- grandparents who come before us all. I thank you for introducing me to the forests and the crystal waters of Maine, and of Connecticut, and of Minnesota, and for ever and ever reminding me, from whence I come. I thank you for your dissidence and the spunk you keep on inspiring in me. At last, I thank you for all the little ways in which you have, over the years, helped lift me up, to build this work. Thank you, Mom, for your open mind, your poetic spirit, and your tireless belief in me, and thanks as well to you and Aunt Sheri and Aunt Jane for teaching me to swim. Thank you, Dad, for the music and ideas you introduced me to, from so early an age, and thanks to you, and to Uncle Bob and Uncle Denny, for the lasting legacy of Robichaud Trail. Thank you, Jill, for your love and support through the years. Thank you, Jean E. for challenging me, for offering support for my work and my family, and for understanding the many ways in which the two are inseparable. Thank you, Charlie, for your vast library and vaster appreciation of art and of nature's many wonders. Thank you, Bill, for being an eco-pioneer, and for your brilliant ideas and infectious enthusiasm. Thank you, Lois, for your openness of heart and mind, and for your continuous support. And many many thanks to you, my grandmother, Clara Richards, and my grandfather, Clyde Richards, for all the times you bade us, "Go outside," for being there, in the little house by the forest, for encouraging my creativity and my love of nature, and for planting the seed out of which this work over the years has grown. iii I would like to acknowledge my beautiful boys; my partner John, for your constant glorious humble spirit of inquiry, and for always all-ways being willing and able to plumb the depths; my son Alden, for your heartfelt intensity, your intuitive wisdom so far beyond your years − so continuously keeping me in check − and for your golden glowing heart; and my youngest son Silas, for your patient gentle intelligent and infinitely deep sensitivity to all the beauty and wonder of the natural world of which you are instinctively a part, my sylvan guide− heart, mind, and soul. I would like to acknowledge Seymour, great spirit guide, and all of the animals I have had the honor of being humbled by. I would like to acknowledge my advisor and mentor, Anne Fletcher. I thank you for your profound openness of mind and spirit, for your consistent encouragement, for your genuine belief in the work that you do and in the work that you inspire in others, and finally for being the perfect balance: erudite scholar and brazen barefoot hippy. I would like to acknowledge my committee: Anne Fletcher, Ronald Pelias, Jonathan Gray, Mary Bogumil, and Pinckney Benedict. Thank you for your willingness to support this work, and for your patience, your thoughtful questions, and your expert guidance. I would like to acknowledge the professors with whom I have had the honor to work, both prior to and during my time at SIU: James Miller, Susan Pennybacker, Barbara Sicherman, Irene Papoulis, Arthur Feinsod, Art Borreca, Lisa Schlesinger, Kim Marra, Dare Clubb, Sherry Kramer, Ron Pelias, Nathan Stucky, Elyse Pineau, David Rush, Suzanne Daughton, Jonathan Gray, Segun Ojewuyi, Ron Naversen, Tom Kidd, and of course Anne Fletcher. Thank you for your dedication to opening minds. iv I would like to acknowledge my brother Wesley. Thank you for always letting me tag along into the woods with you, and for your wise and profound soul. I would like to acknowledge Jill, as well as Hilary, Max, Baily, and Mallory for first trusting me to be a mentor, guide, and care-giver to future generations. I would like to acknowledge Gabriela Ponce for inspiring me to be bolder than I thought I'd dared to be. I would like to acknowledge Rebecca Worley for her glorious hippy heart and her ever-questing mind. I would like to acknowledge Jesse Worley for his impeccable technical aptitude and for his beautiful music. I would like to acknowledge Susannah Bunny LeBaron for her song, her wisdom, her breath, and her breadth. I would like to acknowledge Shelly Anne Buckwell for her depth of vision and for her consistent belief in me − even in my darkest moments. I would like to acknowledge Paul and Jessica Duffy for introducing me to earthing and for living as shining examples of contemporary human beings. I would like to thank Carl Bloom for his easy-going encouragement. I would like to thank Luis Borja for his genuine love and enthusiasm for life. I would like to acknowledge my cast of Beauty; A Dialogue: Carrie Mulderink, for her courage and compassion, Rachael Rodgers, for her tree-climbing sass, Morgan Kopczynski, for her enthusiasm and wonder, Modupe Ogunyemi, for her openness of mind and spirit, Alex Weinhold, for her creativity and vigor, Emily Thompson for her gentle soul and her vast heart, Almedia Exum for her kindness and her warm-hearted v enthusiasm, Nina Jackson for her softness, spunk, and resilience, Andrea Henderson, for her unassuming grace, Cheria Moore, for her boldness and her belief in womankind. Thank you all for your authentic beauty, and for your willingness to trust in my direction and in your own ideas. Thank you for devising with me, for growing with me, and for teaching me every bit as much as I taught you. I would like to acknowledge my beautiful yoga ladies: Thank you, Lori Allen, Michelle Mekel, Marilyn Hisgen, Jackie Wade, and all of you in whose graceful, lovely presence I have been grounded. I would like to acknowledge Sandy Spieler and Loren Niemi of In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre. Thank you for inspiring me even before I had the honor of meeting you in person, and thank you for forging the way.
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