Research methods in theatre and performance
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Research methods in theatre and performance
（Research methods for the arts and humanities / general editor, Gabriele Griffin）
Edinburgh University Press, c2011
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
How have theatre and performance research methods and methodologies engaged the expanding diversity of performing arts practices? How can students best combine performance/theatre research approaches in their projects? This book's 29 contributors provide hands-on answers to such questions. Challenging and debating received research wisdom and exploring innovative procedures for rigorous enquiry via archives, technology, practice-as-research, scenography, performer training, applied theatre/performance, body in performance and more, they create a focussed compendium of future research options. Key Features * Created in association with TaPRA, the leading UK Theatre and Performance Research organisation, with chapters produced by specialist groupings. * Provides many detailed project case studies and examples - including successful practice-based PhDs - plus analysis of dynamic couplings between methods, methodologies and skill-sets. * Introduction interrogates crucial qualities of performing arts research that constitute theatre and performance as, variously, single-, multi-, inter-, and trans-disciplinary. * Contributors include: Maggie B.
Gale (Chair of Drama, University of Manchester); Steve Dixon (Professor of Digital Performance, Brunel University); Joanne 'Bob' Whalley and Lee Miller (University Lecturers and founders Fictional Dogshelf Theatre Company); Simon Ellis and Rosemary Lee (independent performance/dance makers); Roberta Mock (Professor of Performance, University of Plymouth).
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- Introduction: doing methods creatively, Baz Kershaw and Helen Nicholson
- 1: The imperative of the archive: creative archive research, Maggie Gale and Ann Featherstone
- 2: Researching digital performance: virtual practices, Steve Dixon
- 3: Practice as research: trans-disciplinary innovation in action
- Baz Kershaw, with Lee Miller and 'Bob' Whalley, Rosemary Lee and Niki Pollard
- 4: Researching Theatre History and Historiography, Jim Davis, Katie Normington, Gilli Bush-Bailey with Jacky Bratton
- 5: Researching Scenography, Joslin McKinney and Helen Iball
- 6: Performer training: researching practice in the theatre laboratory, Jonathan Pitches, Simon Murray. Helen Poynor and Libby Worth, David Richmond and Jules Dorey Richmond
- 7: The question of documentation: creative strategies in performative research, Adam J. Ledger, with Simon K. Ellis and Fiona Wright
- 8: The usefulness of mess: artistry, improvisation and decomposition in the practice of research in applied theatre, Jenny Hughes, with Jenny Kidd and Catherine McNamara
- 9: Researching the body in/as performance, Jennifer Parker-Starbuck and Roberta Mock
- Notes on Contributors
- Index.
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