Publications

Below is a selection of texts I have written on socially-engaged performance practice and research, including topics such as: contact improvisation as an approach to actively witnessing narratives of violence and deportation, contemporary and community performance in Latin America and specifically in the context of Colombia’s armed conflict, devised theatre methodology, the importance of affect when facilitating applied theatre in contexts of dehumanization (such as prisons and immigrant detention), and how dialogical performance in schools can challenge racism and xenophobia.

Sarah Ashford Hart & Janneth Aldana (2025) “Community Theatre in Colombia: Origins and Trajectories” Critical Stages/Scènes critiques, 31. Creative Commons. https://www.critical-stages.org/31/community-theatre-in-colombia-origins-and-trajectories/

Sarah Ashford Hart. (2025) “Facilitating Afecto in Resistance to Violence: Patricia Ariza’s work with female victims of Colombia’s armed conflict.” In Brenner, L & Diaz, E. eds. Applied Theatre and Gender Justice, pages 87-96 London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003341802-13 

Sarah Ashford Hart. (2023) “Moving-with stories of deportation: witnessing as visceral response-ability.” Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices, 15:2, pages 231-246. Bristol: Intellect. https://doi.org/10.1386/jdsp_00107_1 

Sarah Ashford Hart. (2023) “Afectar la humanidad, desafiar la exclusión, moverse-con la narrativa de la deportación de Esther.” In McKee Irwin, R. & Alonso Meneses, G. coords. Humanizando la Deportación: informes desde las calles de Tijuana, pages 183-232. Tijuana: Colegio de la Frontera Norte. https://libreria.colef.mx/detalle.aspx?id=7932&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1  

Sarah Ashford Hart (2023) “Moving-with Anastasis Corporal: a path to implicated witnessing.” Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 28, pages 66-82. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2023.2178888

Sarah Ashford Hart. (2022) Affective Facilitation, applied theatre and (de)humanization. Dissertation for Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Performance Studies, University of California, Davis. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7xn2n9md

Sarah Ashford Hart (2019) “Movilidad y encierro ‘Sur-Sur’: reflexiones sobre la práctica de performance participativa como investigación en la penitenciaria femenina de Santiago, Chile.” Revista Corpo-grafías: Estudios críticos de y desde los cuerpos, 6:6, pages 214-226. Bogotá: Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. https://doi.org/10.14483/25909398.14242

Sarah Ashford Hart & Avia Moore (2018) “These people, this time, this place: a conversation about Dartington as methodology.” Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 9:3, pages 417-421. London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.1080/19443927.2018.1500937

Sarah Ashford Hart & Carlos Tello (2018) “Comentario editorial: El performance contemporáneo en América Latina.” Brújula: revista interdisciplinaria sobre estudios latinoamericanos, 12, pages 1-12. Davis: University of California Davis. https://brujula.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk13236/files/media/documents/1._comentario_editorial.pdf

Sarah Ashford Hart (2010) Voices for (ex)Change: performing dialogues of belonging to decanter racist narratives. Dissertation for Master of Arts in Devised Theatre, Dartington College of Arts.