Research Methods in Theatre and Performance /
Kershaw, Baz
Research Methods in Theatre and Performance / Baz Kershaw, Helen Nicholson. - 1 online resource (256 p.) : 16 B/W illustrations - Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities : RMAH .
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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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).
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780748641581 9780748646081
10.1515/9780748646081 doi
Performing arts--Research--Methodology.
Theater--Research--Methodology.
Literary Studies.
DRAMA / General.
792.072
Research Methods in Theatre and Performance / Baz Kershaw, Helen Nicholson. - 1 online resource (256 p.) : 16 B/W illustrations - Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities : RMAH .
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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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).
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780748641581 9780748646081
10.1515/9780748646081 doi
Performing arts--Research--Methodology.
Theater--Research--Methodology.
Literary Studies.
DRAMA / General.
792.072