Mimika Theatre: Creation Through Technology

Synopsis: A video-based teaching package designed to explore the links between arts and technology, helping teachers to consider the benefits of cross-curricular working and ways to achieve it. Shows a performance of ‘The Trunk’ by the Mimika Theatre, a two-person theatre company, before an audience of primary schoolchildren. Operating out of a back-to-back house with a motorbike and sidecar for transport, Mimika uses computers, craft and drama skills, mechanical ingenuity, business planning, knowledge of children and artistic judgement to produce shows for children with special needs. They exemplify the way arts-oriented projects necessarily involve themselves in technological and other modes of operating in order to accomplish their designs, bring them before audiences and keep themselves solvent.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 36 min.
Year of production: 1990
Availability: Sale; 1999 sale: £38.00 (+VAT +p&p)
Documentation: Part of teacher education support pack entitled ‘Living arts and technology: a TVEI approach’ which includes course notes, course materials and background material such as papers on the arts in TVEI.
Uses: INSET and initial teacher training.
Subjects: Drama; Education
Keywords: performances; primary education; special needs education; teacher training

Producer

Cast

Bill Parkinson
Jenny Ward

Name: Leeds University Television
Contact: Sally Popplewell (Sales supervisor)
Email: mediaservices@leeds.ac.uk
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Phone: 0113 343 2660
Fax: 0113 343 2669
Address: Media Services
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT

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