Mapping landscapes for performance as research: scholarly acts and creative cartographies

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. INDICE: List of Figures - Acknowledgements - Abbreviations and Acronyms - Contributors - Introduction - PART I: LAY OF THE LANDSCAPE b GEOGRAPHIES, LEGACIES, DISCIPLINES 1 - Performance Practice as Research: Perspectives from a Small Island; B.Kershaw - Working on the Middle Ground: A Case-Study of Institutional Inter-Action about Practice-as-Research; S.Jones - Troubling Performance: Local, National and International; R.Gough - Using Performance as a Practiceas Research tool in Africa; J.Plastow - Rating the Theatre Practitioner: A South African Case-Study; T.Hauptfleisch - Performance as Research in Australia:Legitimating Epistemologies; B.Haseman - Locating the Artist-Researcher: Shifting Sites of Performance as Research [PAR] in Canada; L.Levin - Social Performance Studies [in China]: Between the Real and the Virtual; W.H.Sun ; F.C.Fei - Artistic Research - From Apartness to the Umbrella Concept at the Theatre Academy, Finland; A.Arlander - An Actor Prepares: Performance as Research [PAR] in the Theatre; I.Watson - Making a Dance/Researching through Movement; S.L.Foster - Performance as Research [PAR] in North American Ethnomusicology; S.J.Graham - The Three Configurations of Studio-Art PhDs; J.Elkins - Approaching Knowledge, Research, Performance, and the Arts; A.J.Sabatini - PART II: CARTOGRAPHIES b TERMS FOR FINDING/CHARTING THE WAY(S) - Action Research; K.Yasuda - Disjunction: Performing Media Space; N.Kaye - Embodiment; P.Lichtenfels - Environment; B.Kershaw - Lab/Studio; S.R.Riley - Medium; S.Kelly - Oral History; D.Pollock - Site-Particular; I.Noé - Situated Knowledge; L.Hunter - PART III: MAPPING PAR IN THE US b COMMUNITIES, CLASSROOMS, STAGES, AND HOLODECKS - When Is Art Research?; S.Jackson - The Oral History Project: Practice-Based Research inTheatre and Performance; L.D.Nielsen - University Gamelan Ensembles as Research; H.Spiller - Performative and Pedagogical Interventions: Embodying Whiteness as Cultural Critique; J.T.Warren - Open up the Box: Pedagogy, Action Research and Art; K.Yasuda - Searching for Spalding Gray: PAR Pedagogy, an Undergraduate Ensemble, and 'The Edinburgh Project'; R.Malague - Valuing Performance/Practice as Academic Knowledge; L.Hunter - Performed Research: Audience as Investigator; M.Arsem - Miss Translation USA Goes to Cuba: Performance as Research toward a Performative Ethnography; S.R.Riley - Acting (on) our own Discomforts:BLW's [Media] Performance as Research; J.Wyman - Theory/Practice as Research:Explorations, Questions and Suggestions; L.Hunter - Dramaturgy: Conceptual Understanding and the Fickleness of Process; J.D.Rossini - Collisions in Time: 21st Century Actors Explore Delsarte on the Holodeck; S.M.Carnicke - Living on the Edge: Alternate Controllers and the Obstinate Interface; J.B.Rovan - Select Bibliography - Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-22219-9
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 304
• Fecha Publicación: 16/07/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés