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From the Finishing School of Marisa Carnesky: Lessons in Doing It Together

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Marisa Carnesky's Finishing School has shaped over a decade of performance makers of all ages in the early stages of their careers. Since starting at the Roundhouse in 2010, pupils have been admitted into what has been described as an ‘esoteric St Trinian's for the queer cabaret generation.’ This chapter takes five key lessons in ‘Doing It Together’ which considers the pedagogic processes at play in Carnesky's classroom.

Keywords: alternative education ; Cabaret ; Camp ; Collaboration ; Collectives ; collectivity ; DIT (Do-It-Together) ; DIY (Do-It-Yourself) ; Drag ; Drag Training ; pedagogy ; performance skills ; Performance Training ; Queer Pedagogy ; Queer Performance ; Radical Pedagogy ; Solo Performance ; Theatre Education

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From the Finishing School of Marisa Carnesky: Lessons in Doing It Together
Intellect , 272 (2024); https://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2102/10.1386/9781835950104_19
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