Research Methods in Theatre and Performance / / Baz Kershaw, Helen Nicholson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Kershaw, Baz,; Nicholson, Helen,
• MitwirkendeR: Bratton, Jacky,; Bush-Bailey, Gilli,; Davis, Jim,; Dixon, Steve,; Dorey Richmond, Jules,; Ellis, Simon K.,; Featherstone, Ann,; Gale, Maggie B.,; Hughes, Jenny,; Iball, Helen,; Kershaw, Baz,; Kidd, Jenny,; Ledger, Adam J.,; Lee, Rosemary,; McKinney, Joslin,; McNamara, Catherine,; Miller, Lee,; Mock, Roberta,; Murray, Simon,; Nicholson, Helen,; Normington, Katie,; Parker-Starbuck, Jennifer,; Pitches, Richmond,; Pollard, Niki,; Poynor, Helen,; Richmond, David,; Whalley, Joanne,; Worth, Libby,; Wright, Fiona,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities : RMAH
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 16 B/W illustrations
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; List of Figures --; Introduction: Doing Methods Creatively --; 1. The Imperative of the Archive: Creative Archive Research --; 2. Researching Digital Performance: Virtual Practices --; 3. Practice as Research: Transdisciplinary Innovation in Action --; 4. Researching Theatre History and Historiography --; 5. Researching Scenography --; 6. Performer Training: Researching Practice in the Theatre Laboratory --; 7. The Question of Documentation: Creative Strategies in Performance Research --; 8. The Usefulness of Mess: Artistry, Improvisation and Decomposition in the Practice of Research in Applied Theatre --; 9. Researching the Body in/as Performance --; Notes on Contributors --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780748646081; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9780748646081
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Baz Kershaw, Helen Nicholson.

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).