Research Methods in Theatre and Performance

Herausgeber: Kershaw, Baz; Nicholson, Helen

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 398g
• ISBN-13: 9780748641574
• ISBN-10: 0748641572
• Artikelnr.: 32068575

Autorenporträt

Baz Kershaw is Professorial Research Fellow in Performance at Warwick University. He worked as an engineer before studying at Manchester, Hawaii and Exeter Universities. His projects in experimental and community-based theatre include productions at the London Drury Lane Arts Lab and, since 2000, eco-specific performances in south-west England. His publications include The Politics of Performance (1992), The Radical in Performance (1999) and Theatre Ecology: Environments and Performance Events (2007). Helen Nicholson is Professor of Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her publications include Applied Drama: The Gift of Theatre (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), Making a Performance: Devising Histories and Contemporary Practices (co-authored with Emma Govan and Katie Normington) (Routledge, 2007) and Theatre & Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

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.