Practice As Research: In the Performance and Screen - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230220010 ISBN 13: 9780230220010

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Synopsis

Practice-as-Research: In Performance and Screen presents a thoroughgoing exploration of the major fissures of established knowledge created by a new trans-disciplinary, worldwide project for the twenty-first century. Focussing on the most fleeting and yet pervasive practices of the performance and screen arts, it both documents and analyses the practical-theoretical integration of hands-on creative and scholarly methods of research. Through an innovative combination of manuscript, catalogue and digital multi-media formats, it aims to embody the principles of performance and screen practice-as-research in its structure and design – making book pages and DVD images mutually illuminating. With over fifty practitioner-researcher contributors,Practice-as-Research constitutes the most comprehensive presentation of this sometimes controversial and frequently fresh way of doing things with an imaginative convergence of artistic and scholarly processes.

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About the Authors

BAZ KERSHAW is currently Professor of Performance in the University of Warwicks Department of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies, having previously been Chair of Drama at the University of Bristol for 8 years. He is the Director of the major research project PARIP (Practice as Research in Performance) since it began in 2000, and has been on the editorial boards for many key journals in theatre/performance studies (includingResearch in Drama Education, Cambridge History of British Theatre, Contemporary Theatre Review). His own publications includeEngineers of the Imagination (Methuen, 1998), The Politics of Performance (Routledge, 1992),The Radical in Performance (Routledge, 1999) and The Cambridge History of British Theatre Since 1895 (2004).

SIMON JONES is Reader in Performance in the Drama Department at the University of Bristol, UK, and is a practitioner and scholar, having written plays and texts for a number of companies since the 1980s and founded the performance company Bodies in Flight in 1990. He has published in Contemporary Theatre Review, Entropy Magazine, Liveartmagazine, Performance Research, Shattered Anatomies(ed. Heathfield & Quick), and most recently in The Cambridge History of British Theatre.

ANGELA PICCINI is an Academic Fellow in the Drama Department at the University of Bristol, UK, and has been working with Baz Kershaw on the PARIP project since 2001. Her publications include articles in journals such asJournal of Media Practice and Studies in Theatre and Performance.

LUDIVINE ALLEGUE FUSCHINI is currently a Research Assistant at the University of Bristol, and has mainly published in related French journals.

JOHN ADAMS is Professor of Film and Screen Media Practice at University of Bristol, UK JANE BACON is Reader in Performance Studies at the University of Northampton, UK, and Co-Director of The Choreographic Lab CHRISTOPHER BANNERMAN is Head of ResCen and Professor of Dance at Middlesex University, UK MIEREANU COSTIN is Professor of Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Sciences of Art at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University, France, and Director of the Institut d'Esthétique des Arts et Technologies (IDEAT) HENRY DANIEL is Artistic Director of Full Performing Bodies, an Associate Professor of Dance and Performance Studies at SFU Contemporary Arts in Vancouver, Canada, and lead researcher for Transnet (Transdisciplinary Network for Performance and Technology) JONATHAN DOVEY is Professor of Screen Media in the School of Creative Arts, University of the West of England, UK CAHAL McLAUGHLIN is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Ulster, UK ROBIN NELSON is Professor of Theatre and TV Drama at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK ALISON RICHARDS is an Honorary Fellow in Creative Arts in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia CAROLINE RYE was a postdoctoral Research Associate on the PARIP project and currently designs and builds sustainable buildings LIZZIE THYNNE is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media and Film at the University of Sussex, UK DVD contributors: John Adams, Beatrice Allegranti, Ludivine Allegue, Annette Arlander, Tom Armstrong, Jane Bacon, Anna Birch, Johannes Birringer, Yvon Bonenfant, Ali Maclaurin, Thea Brejzek, Carol Brown, Valerie A. Briginshaw, Pete Brooks, Sebastián Calderón-Bentin, David Chapman, Emilyn Claid, Paul Clarke, Elena Cologni, Laura Cull, Henry Daniel, Tony Dowmunt, David Furnham, Sara Giddens, Cathy Greenhalgh, Thom Hecht, Jennifer Jackson, Simon Jones, Baz Kershaw, Cathy Lane, David Leddy, Neil Mackenzie, Sally Mackey, Joslin McKinney, Cahal McLaughlin, Vida Midgelow, Lee Miller, Roberta Mock, Adrian Palka, Kjell Petersen, Andrew Quick, Paul Rae, Michaela Reiser, Christine Roberts, David Roesner, Sarah Rubidge, Peter Snow, Yuji Sone, Nigel Stewart, Lizzie Thynne, Liz Tomlin, Ruth Way, Joanne 'Bob' Whalley, Patrick Wood, Fiona Wright

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230220010
• ISBN 13: 9780230220010
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 260
• Editor: Fuschini Ludivine, Jones Simon, Kershaw Baz, Piccini Angela