TY - BOOK AU - Kershaw,Baz AU - Bratton,Jacky AU - Bush-Bailey,Gilli AU - Davis,Jim AU - Dixon,Steve AU - Dorey Richmond,Jules AU - Ellis,Simon K. AU - Featherstone,Ann AU - Gale,Maggie B. AU - Hughes,Jenny AU - Iball,Helen AU - Kershaw,Baz AU - Kidd,Jenny AU - Ledger,Adam J. AU - Lee,Rosemary AU - McKinney,Joslin AU - McNamara,Catherine AU - Miller,Lee AU - Mock,Roberta AU - Murray,Simon AU - Nicholson,Helen AU - Normington,Katie AU - Parker-Starbuck,Jennifer AU - Pitches,Richmond AU - Pollard,Niki AU - Poynor,Helen AU - Richmond,David AU - Whalley,Joanne AU - Worth,Libby AU - Wright,Fiona TI - Research Methods in Theatre and Performance T2 - Research Methods for the Arts and Humanities : RMAH SN - 9780748641581 U1 - 792.072 23 PY - 2022///] CY - Edinburgh : PB - Edinburgh University Press, KW - Performing arts KW - Research KW - Methodology KW - Theater KW - Literary Studies KW - DRAMA / General KW - bisacsh N1 - 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 N2 - 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) UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748646081 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748646081 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748646081/original ER -