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).
