Comments on: Oh, That Hippetyhop…. http://coyapaz.com/home/2012/08/oh-that-hippetyhop/ Tue, 09 Oct 2012 18:24:27 -0700 hourly 1 By: Steph http://coyapaz.com/home/2012/08/oh-that-hippetyhop/#comment-7201 Steph Tue, 09 Oct 2012 18:24:27 +0000 http://coyapaz.com/home/?p=550#comment-7201 Yeah, I actually had to take a break from being a teaching artist for the reasons you mentioned. An indefinite break. As an artist of color, I have yet to work as a teacher for a theatre company that allowed me to teach their "studio classes"-- instead, I have always been shipped out to the "satellite" locations (read: inner-city schools) so that the students can see "someone like themselves" (I did not grow up in a remotely urban environment, and my childhood, while not cushy, could by no stretch of the imagination be deemed economically or educationally underprivileged). I always felt vaguely uncomfortable in this role. The only two programs that did not elicit these feelings in me were Teatro Meta at The Old Globe in San Diego and The Young Playwright's Festival here in Chicago. But man. Yeah. This post just totally spoke to me. Yeah, I actually had to take a break from being a teaching artist for the reasons you mentioned. An indefinite break. As an artist of color, I have yet to work as a teacher for a theatre company that allowed me to teach their “studio classes”– instead, I have always been shipped out to the “satellite” locations (read: inner-city schools) so that the students can see “someone like themselves” (I did not grow up in a remotely urban environment, and my childhood, while not cushy, could by no stretch of the imagination be deemed economically or educationally underprivileged). I always felt vaguely uncomfortable in this role.

The only two programs that did not elicit these feelings in me were Teatro Meta at The Old Globe in San Diego and The Young Playwright’s Festival here in Chicago. But man. Yeah. This post just totally spoke to me.

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