Performance as Research (PAR) is characterised by an extraordinary elasticity and interdisciplinary drive. Performance as Research: Knowledge, Methods, Impact celebrates this energy, bringing together chapters from a wide range of disciplines and eight different countries. This volume focuses explicitly on three critical, often contentious themes that run through much discussion of PaR as a discipline:
Knowledge - the areas and manners in which performance can generate knowledge
Methods - methods and methodologies for approaching performance as research
Impact - a broad understanding of the impact of this form of research
These themes are framed by four essays from the book's editors, contextualising their interrelated conversations, teasing out common threads, and exploring the new questions that the contributions pose to the field of performance. As both an intervention into and extension of current debates, this is a vital collection for any reader concerned with the value and legitimacy of performance as research.
INTRODUCTION I. Wherefore PAR?: Discussions on "a line of flight" Bruce Barton
On PaR: A dialogue about rerformance-as-research Jonathan Heron and Baz Kershaw
Research-Based Practice: Facilitating transfer across artistic, scholarly, and scientific inquiries Pil Hansen
The Daisy Chain Model: an approach to epistemic mapping and dissemination in performance-based research Joanna Bucknall
INTRODUCTION II. Threads: Linking PAR practice across spectrums Melanie Dreyer-Lude
A New Rhetoric: Notes on performance as research in academia Valentina Signore
Research as Theatre (RaT): Positioning theatre at the centre of PAR, and PAR at the centre of the academy Yelena Gluzman
Agential Cuts and Performance as Research Annette Arlander
Antromovimento: Developing a new methodology for theatre anthropology Laurelann Porter
PAR and Decolonisation: Notemakings from an Indian and South African context Manola K. Gayatri
Containers of Practice: Would you step into my shell? Göze Saner
INTRODUCTION III. Mad Lab-or why we can't do Practice as research Ben Spatz
PAR Produces Plethora, Extended Voices are Plethoric, and Why Plethora Matters Yvon Bonenfant
Choreographic Practice-as-Research: Visualizing conceptual structures in contemporary dance Stephan Jürgens and Carla Fernandes
The City (as) Place: Performative remappings of urban space through artistic research Shana MacDonald
Resonance in the Steps of Rubicon Monica Sand
Violence and Performance Research Methods: Direct-action, "die-ins," and allyship in a Black Lives Matter era" Juan Manuel Aldape Muņoz
INTRODUCTION TO FUTURE CONCERNS. Multiple Futures of Performance as Research? Annette Arlander
