Anna (Hargadon) Peterson
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Performative Research-- Life, Love, and Autism

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(Check out www.storiesofautism.org for details on my lastest project! Here's a blurb: ) 
Stories of Autism presents "Life, Love and Autism," a storytelling piece compiled from interviews of parents with children with autism. Over a two year period, researcher Tracy Golden interviewed 34 parents across urban and rural Utah who shared their stories of sharing lives and building relationships with their children with autism.  The research is presented creatively through the captivating lens of one-woman, storytelling performance.  Come join us as we share these parents' compelling stories of life, love and autism.  Audience members are encouraged to remain after the performance for the story circle, to share their own tales of life with autism or even just to listen.


Storytelling

The incredible world of storytelling opened up to me when I took a class about it at BYU. I absolutely adore it. It's an interaction between performers and an audience, but it's much more intimate. Soul to Soul.
 One of my favorite aspects of storytelling is "history telling." It combines my passions for stories, history, and performance. I also tell personal stories. See below for taste of some of my stories.
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These pictures courtesy of "The Porch" during the "Peter Pan Syndrome" Telling
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As Minerva Teichert at BYU's Southwest Exhibit 2013

Martyrs' Crossing, Provo Fall 2012

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Nauvoo Pageant, Summer 2012

The Nauvoo Pagaent, Temple, and Spirit

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Roles: Eliza Roxcy Snow; District Leader; Disciple; Missionary

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Utah Shakespeare in the Park Summer 2011: A Midsummer Night's Dream

I was assistant director, viewpoints and music specialist, and costume creator for this delightful production.
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BYU's Persuasion March/April 2011 

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Boeing Boeing Fall 2010

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A Thousand Cranes Winter 2010

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I am blessed to be a part of of BYU's Theatre for Young Audiences and their newest endeavor . It is an incredible project and one worth keeping an eye on. The story is of a young girl living in Hiroshima, Japan, that dies of Lukemia from the radiation poisoning.  A tender story of love, hope, death, friendship, and a call for peace. BYU is connecting with the Topaz Museum--a museum dedicated to raising awareness and preserving the history of the Japanese Internment camp in Delta, Utah. There were 123, 000* Japanese and Japanese-Americans held in internment camps here in the United States during WW2.

Right now those working on the Topaz museum rent a wall in a local museum and that is all they have to represent the lives of those who suffered in the camps while their sons were fighting for the country that held their parents captive. It's a part of American history not given much thought, and that needs to change.

ATC hopes to help raise awareness of this part of our history, as well as fund-raise for the museum. A major aspect to this production is that we tour to elementary and middle schools all over the Utah Valley as Teaching Artists--we perform the show and then hold a workshop with the children that focuses on the themes of the show. We will also be performing at BYU and some local libraries. At least 40 performances in all.

February 3rd is our opening night at BYU, where the exhibition will open in the main floor gallery, showcasing artwork from artists that were held in the internment camps, the World Premiere of the 123,000 cranes*, and other avenues of raising awareness and appreciation.

To learn more about the 123,000* paper cranes being strung by students at BYU as well as members of the community, go to http://universe.byu.edu/node/4341 

More info to come.

CHECK OUT athousandcranes.net

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BYU's As You Like It 2010

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I am fortunate enough to again be a part of BYU's most recent Shakespeare endeavor! This time they are tackling Shakespeare's musical--As You Like It! (One of my favorites) I am a member of the ensemble and understudy for Rosalind. It's quite contemporary and exciting! Come see it and sing along with us!

By William Shakespeare
Directed by Kymberly Mellen

“Can one desire too much of a good thing?” Find out in the comedy that brings all walks of life into the Forest of Ardenne. There, Orlando and Rosalind try to redeem their families from injustice while also falling in love. As you journey with them from power to poverty and back again, perhaps you too will understand why “all the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players.”

Please note: Our production of As You Like It has a modern setting. Like many Shakespearean productions, the Bard uses a small amount of innuendo and double entendres. This interpretation of the play also includes contemporary music and some staged violence. For these reasons, the production is recommended for audience members age 13 and older.

Pinewood Summer School 2009--Musical Theatre and Improv

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Back to Pinewood once again. This year was magical--just like the year before, but the magic was even better because I had more confidence and knew more about what I was doing. I trusted the power of improv and every day I was becoming a better person because I was trying to help them become better human beings too.

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Go Dog, Go! Workshops Winter 2009

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I worked with a small group of three other wonderful teachers--Justine Trotter, Ashlan Schofield, and Jes Griffin--under the direction of Julia Ashworth, as we traveled around the state of Utah following BYU's Young Company Production of "Go Dog, Go!" into elementary schools and facilitating TIE workshops centered around themes from the show. It was a  hard, rewarding, educational experience.

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MACBETH at BYU

Macbeth
By William Shakespeare
“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.” Seeking to fulfill a series of supernatural prophecies, Macbeth falls into a descending web of magic and tyranny as he and his ambitious wife stop at nothing to obtain and keep the crown. Only after he has destroyed everything he holds dear does Macbeth realize life is “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
March 18*, 19*, 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 31, April 1, 2, 3, 7:30 p.m. Saturday matinees, March 21 and 28, 2:00 p.m.
Pardoe Theatre $15 ($5 off weeknights/$4 off weekends with BYU or student ID/$2 off for senior citizens or BYU alumni)
Dress rehearsals/matinees—all seats $8
Individual tickets on sale February 17
(Info taken from the BYU website)


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Theatre-in-Education (my latest obsession)

Theatre-in-Education (TIE) is the practice of exploring various issues through theatre, with young people or community groups. The term is also broadly used to express any type of theatre developed by and through skilled theatre artists, placed in an educational setting. More and more the definition of an "educational setting" is broadening to include settings at the community level through professional theatre companies and various community groups.

Skilled theatre practitioners function as teaching artists to help communities investigate themes or concepts derived from theatre productions or, as in devised theatre, to explore social/political issues currently facing any given community.

Pinewood Summer School 2008--Musical Theatre

Pinewood is a private school in Los Altos California. One of its primary focuses is Drama, Musical Theatre, what you will...where they seek to cultivate self-confidence,  public speaking skills, team-building skills, and friendships.The summer of 2008 I taught at their Middle Campus, grades 1st, 2nd, and 4th-6th. The first graders magically danced and rhymed the "The Storybook Prince," second graders put on a riveting version of "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" complete with a scary child-snatcher, and the older class played make believe in a stirring rendition of the musical, "Peter Pan."


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