Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research [electronic resource] : Scholarly Acts and Creative Cartographies /
Riley, Shannon Rose.author.
Hunter, Lynette.author.
Although the sciences have long understood the value of practice-based research, the arts and humanities have tended to structure a gap between practice and analysis. This book examines differences and similarities between Performance as Research practices in various community and national contexts, mapping out the landscape of this new field.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-263) and index.
Lay of the landscape : geographies, legacies, disciplines. Performance practice as research: perspectives from a small island / Baz Kershaw -- Working on the middle ground: a case-study of institutional inter-action about practice-as-research / Simon Jones -- Troubling performance: local, national and international  / Richard Gough -- Using performance as a practice as research tool in Africa /  Jane Plastow -- Rating the theatre practitioner: a South African case-study /  Temple Hauptfleisch -- Performance as research in Australia: legitimating epistemologies / Brad Haseman -- Locating the artist-researcher: shifting sites of performance as research [PAR] in Canada / Laura Levin -- Social performance studies [in China]: between the real and the virtual / William Huizhu Sun & Faye Chunfang Fei -- Artistic research: from apartness to the umbrella concept at the Theatre Academy, Finland / Annette Arlander -- An actor prepares: performance as research [PAR] in the theatre / Ian Watson -- Making a dance/researching through movement / Susan Leigh Foster -- Performance as research [PAR] in North American ethnomusicology / Sandra Jean Graham -- The three configurations of studio-art PhDs  / James Elkins -- Approaching knowledge, research, performance, and the arts /  Arthur J. Sabatini -- Cartographies : terms for finding/charting the way(s). Action research / Kim Yasuda -- Disjunction: performing media space / Nick Kaye -- Embodiment / Peter Lichtenfels -- Environment / Baz Kershaw -- Lab/studio / Shannon Rose Riley -- Medium / Susan Kelly -- Oral history / Della Pollock -- Site-particular / Ilya Noé -- Situated knowledge / Lynette Hunter -- Mapping PAR in the US : communities, classrooms, stages, and holodecks. When Is art research? / Shannon Jackson -- The oral history project: practice-based research in theatre and performance / Lara D. Nielsen -- University gamelan ensembles as research / Henry Spiller -- Performative and pedagogical interventions: embodying whiteness as cultural critique / John T. Warren -- Open up the box: pedagogy, action research and art / Kim Yasuda -- Searching for Spalding Gray: PAR pedagogy, an undergraduate ensemble, and "The Edinburgh project" / Rosemary Malague -- Valuing performance/practice as academic knowledge / Lynette Hunter -- Performed research: audience as investigator / Marilyn Arsem -- Miss Translation USA goes to Cuba: performance as research toward a performative ethnography / Shannon Rose Riley -- Acting (on) our own discomforts: BLW's [Media] performance as research / Julie Wyman -- Theory/practice as research: explorations, questions and suggestions / Lynette Hunter -- Dramaturgy: conceptual understanding and the fickleness of process / Jon D. Rossini -- Collisions in time: 21st century actors explore Delsarte on the holodeck / Sharon Marie Carnicke -- Living on the edge: alternate controllers and the obstinate interface / Joseph Butch Rovan.
Although the sciences have long understood the value of practice-based research, the arts and humanities have tended to structure a gap between practice and analysis. This book examines differences and similarities between Performance as Research practices in various community and national contexts, mapping out the landscape of this new field.
Theater.
Theater—History.
Environment.
Theatre and Performance Studies.
Theatre History.
Environment, general.