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

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

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