Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research: Scholarly Acts and Creative Cartographies [Paperback]

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.List of Figures Acknowledgements Abbreviations and Acronyms Contributors Introduction PART I: LAY?OF?THE LANDSCAPE  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 Practice as 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 ?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.No? Situated Knowledge; L.Hunter PART III: MAPPING PAR?IN?THE US  COMMUNITIES, CLASSROOMS, STAGES,?AND HOLODECKS When Is Art Resealã,