Offerings
Talleri partners with schools, classroom teachers, arts organizations and/or individual productions to provide: access consulting, access-centered teaching artistry, and professional development.
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Access Consulting
At the core of Talleri’s practice is the invitation for clients to connect accessibility work with theater professional’s deep desire to be creative, and experiment with access. Talleri believes that every tiny movement forward in learning is a cause for celebration– an access win!
Cultural Service Consulting
All organizations, whether they offer arts-based cultural services or community-based support, can benefit from access consulting.
A Cultural Access Consultancy might do one or more of the following:
provide staff professional development about the art of access-- i.e., accepted language and best practices for other orgs of their size and scope
Conduct an organizational access needs assessment
Create an organizational access plan with short, medium, and long term goals
Co-generate a concrete list of access action items that is operationally feasible
Talleri’s most recent experience supporting a broad range of organizations comes from her training from the Kentucky Peer Advisory Network, or KPAN.
Theater Organization Consulting
Theatre organizations and productions bring together some of the most creative individuals.
When teams begin to improve accessibility, they often start with a focus on practical logistics, which can lead to feeling either overwhelmed— or worse, bored.
When partnering with organizations, Talleri works with leadership, staff, artists and audiences to provide support for access centered practices as part of:
The work environment, climate, and culture
The artistic/production process
The audience/customer experience
Production-Specific Consulting
When partnering with productions, Talleri works with artistic and front-of-house staff to provide access centered practices as part of :
Dramaturgy, script and story development
Seeking community-specific feedback during development
Audience/customer experience
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Teaching Artistry
Talleri’s work as a theatre-based teaching artist is both process- and people-centered. Rather than a performance-based approach, Talleri invites students (and teachers) to explore a story from the inside out: taking on roles, solving problems, and working together to create new solutions and endings.
Creative Drama / Process-Centered Frameworks
Talleri utilizes the process-based the teaching philosophies of Winifred Ward and Johnny Saldaña (creative drama); Dorothy Heathcote, and Cecily O’Neill (process drama), Katie Dawson, Bridget Lee (drama-based pedagogy).
Community / Social Justice-Centered Frameworks
Talleri utilizes the Social Justice- centered philosophies of theorists and practitioners like Paulo Freire (pedagogy of the oppressed), Augusto Boal (theatre of the oppressed), Michael Rohd, Kurt Wooten, Elieen Landay (community-based art)
Access-Centered Frameworks
Talleri uses a variety of apporaches to create individualized access-centered lessons. Most of Talleri’s lessons combine elements of Universal Design for Learning Framework, the 10 Principles of Disability Justice, and Dancing Wheels’ concept of “variations and translations,” paired with a trial-and-error framework for reflection.
What did we try?
What worked? What didn’t?
What might we try next time?
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Professional Development for Educators
Based on the Process- Social justice- and Access-Centered frameworks above, Talleri has provided professional development to educators and administrators in Texas, Kentucky, and Virginia. While the content of Talleri’s lessons change when providing professional development, their structures remain consistent with the frameworks above.