Dan Baron Cohen

At the 2007 International Drama in Education and the Arts (IDEA) World Congress, Dan Baron Cohen was reconfirmed as the President of IDEA.

Dan Baron Cohen is a playwright, community-theatre director, cultural theorist and arts-educator, presently living and working in Brazil. Following undergraduate and post-graduate research into popular educational theatre at the University of Oxford, he was apprenticed to the playwrights Edward Bond (England) and Ngugi Wa Thiong’o (Kenya) whose life projects inspired a lasting search for methods of community-based cultural action for justice.

In 1998, Dan Baron Cohen worked as a visiting professor at the State University of Santa Catarina in Brazil. His past nine years of collaborations with landless, indigenous, trade-union and university communities in Brazil, Peru, Chile and, more recently, in China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan, have advanced his methods into a pedagogy of intercultural literacy and a poetics of 'transformance'.

As the President of the International Drama-Education Association (IDEA) until July 2010, Dan Baron Cohen was also Coordinator of the World Alliance for Arts Education, and was a member of the International Committee for the World Social Forum. He has published Theatre of Self-Determination (Derry, 2001), Alfabetização Cultural: a luta íntima por uma nova humanidade (Cultural Literacy: the intimate struggle for a new humanity), São Paulo 2004, and numerous articles. He is the cousin of well-known comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.

References

• Bailey, Dominic (14 April 2003). "Living with Brazil's landless". BBC NEWS (BBC). http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2940709.stm. Retrieved 10 July 2010. </ref>

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