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

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.Noé Situated Knowledge; L.Hunter PART III: MAPPING PAR IN THE US - COMMUNITIES, CLASSROOMS, STAGES, AND HOLODECKS When Is Art Research?; S.Jackson The Oral History Project: Practice-Based Research in Theatre 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