Publications
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
Re-Imagining Commedia as An Antiracist Practice through ‘The Artful Token’: A Creative Practice-as-Research
PARtake: The Journal of Performance as Research
This essay considers the opportunities and limitations of Contemporary Commedia as an antiracist / anti-oppressive form of theatre and the role of a director-as-facilitator in relationship to Lecoq’s actor-creator through reflection on a practice-as-research project: devising an “Antiracist Commedia for Zoom” with undergraduate students at an American university.
Peer-reviewed online educational resource
Storytelling on Screen: An Online Playback Theatre Archive and Guidebook
Jordan Rosin and Heidi Winters Vogel, with Sammy Lebron
Virginia Tech Publishing
Storytelling on Screen: An Online Playback Theatre Archive and Guidebook is an open education resource consisting of a collection of full-length recordings of online Playback Theatre performances, and a 55-page explanatory guidebook. The guidebook, featuring a foreword by Playback Theatre co-founder, Jo Salas, explains the adaptation to online performances and some of the key concepts, roles, and forms involved in online Playback Theatre. The resource as a whole is suitable for a wide range of theatre students in courses such as applied theatre, theatre for social justice, improvisation, theatre appreciation, or acting. The guidebook contains hyperlinks to specific sections of the archive where students can see a given form or concept in action, allowing for a comparison of how different companies approach a given form.
Book-In-Progress
The Ume Group Book of Creating Physical Theatre
I am currently working on my first full-length book, along with co-authors Christian Leadley, Fabio Motta, Keelie Sheridan, Yoshiko “Yokko” Sienkiewicz. The book will chronicle some of the history and methodology of our company The Ume Group, including our unique approach to creating ensemble-based physical theatre. The book is in proposal phase and soon-to-be available for contract with a publisher. For more info, e-mail jordan@jordanrosin.com.
Self-Published E-Book
Re-Becoming: A Workbook for Creating Original Butoh-Fu, self-published E-Book, 2018.
A 14-page printable work-book. This easy-to-use, step-by-step guide is designed to help people unlock their inner creativity by exploring their personal relationship to language and movement through exercises inspired by Tatsumi Hijikata’s “Butoh-Fu.”
Mentions & Inclusions
2020
Something Called Butoh, NPO Dance Archive Network: Tokyo, Japan, 2020.
Image of Jordan Rosin & Yokko in The Ume Group’s Facet along with quotes from Jordan included on p. 119.
2018
Homan, Sidney. “Butoh Medea.” American Book Review, vol. 39 no. 6, 2018, p. 6-6. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/abr.2018.0087.
Review of Butoh Medea, co-choreographed by Jordan Rosin.
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For Jordan’s numerous press mentions, check out the About page on www.jordanrosin.com or any of the individual projects in Jordan’s Creative Portfolio.
Book Reviews
2021
“Enacting Lecoq: Movement in Theatre, Cognition, and Life by Maiya Murphy (Review).” Theatre Topics, vol. 31, no. 1, 2021, pp. 68–69, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/786256.
Other Scholarly Activity
Conference presentations
“Devising Commedia as An Antiracist Practice in The Artful Token” Directing Focus Group Debut Panel, Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Conference. Online 2021.
“Envisioning Resilience in Performance: The Ume Group’s Inaugural Online Playback Theatre Event” All-Conference Plenary, Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Conference. Online 2020.
“Exploring the Intersection of Clown & Melodrama through Visions of A Crying Girl” Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Conference, Grad Student Work-in-Progress Panel. Orlando, Florida, 2019.
“Empowering Actors Through Viewpoints” Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Conference, ATME Debut Panel. Orlando, Florida, 2019.
Awards
2020
ATME Innovation Fellowship, Association of Theatre Movement Educators for The Artful Token, an online commedia
International Initiatives Small Grant, Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences
NET/TEN Remote Connection Mini-Grant, Network of Ensemble Theaters
2019
Integrated Artist-Scholar Award, Association of Theatre Movement Educators
Space Grant “Butoh Dance as Intervention for Viewpoints Analysis” Participant Study, Dell’Arte Intl.
2010
Crown Award (Capstone Funding), for Undergraduate Thesis: “Ensemble Theatre Techniques: Butoh Electra”, Renee Crown University Honors Dept. Syracuse University.