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dc:title Performance Research Methods
dc:creator Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink;Laura Karreman
dc:subject Performance studies;Research methodologies;Theatre and dance;Practice-based learning;Interdisciplinary approaches
dc:description 'Performance Research Methods' is the first comprehensive guide to contemporary methodologies in performance studies, offering a clear and structured overview of the tools currently shaping research in theatre, dance, and performance. While many volumes focus on individual methods, this book uniquely surveys a range of approaches, presenting their historical background, analytical potential, practical application, and interdisciplinary relevance. 
 
Designed with clarity and usability in mind, each chapter follows a consistent structure: introduction, contextual framing, practical application, case study demonstration, interdisciplinary expansion, and suggestions for further reading. This format enables readers to compare methods with ease and understand how each can be adapted to real-world research. 
 
Developed by scholars actively teaching these methods in graduate and undergraduate programs, this hands-on volume addresses a key gap in the field: the lack of explicit, accessible discussions of performance research methods. Responding to the societal, technological, and ecological contexts of contemporary performance, the book makes visible the knowledge practices that often remain confined to the classroom. 
 
Accessible to students, researchers, and arts professionals alike, this volume provides an essential resource for anyone looking to engage critically and creatively with performance in the twenty-first century.
dc:date 2025-10-23T14:06:47Z
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  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright
  4. Table of Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. List of Audio/Video files
  7. About the Contributors
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction
  10. Part I: Object-Oriented Dramaturgies and Cultural Analysis
  11. Object-Oriented Dramaturgies and Cultural Analysis
  12. 1. Concept-Based Analysis
    1. Laura Karreman
  13. 2. Dramaturgical Analysis: A Relational Approach
    1. Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink and Sigrid Merx
  14. 3. Spectatorship Analysis
    1. Maaike Bleeker
  15. 4. Movement Analysis
    1. Andrew Fuhrmann, Lise Uytterhoeven, andRachel Fensham
  16. 5. Dance Analysis
    1. Sarah Whatley
  17. 6. Music Always Does Something: Analysing Musical Theatre
    1. Millie Taylor
  18. 7. A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Listening
    1. Pieter Verstraete
  19. Part II: Histories, Contexts, Ecologies
  20. Histories, Contexts, Ecologies
  21. 8. Discourse Analysis
    1. Sruti Bala
  22. 9. Creating Art Ecologies through Contextual Analysis
    1. Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink
  23. 10. Cultural Materialism and the Politics of Performance
    1. Dick Zijp
  24. 11. Tracing Histories: An Archaeological Approach
    1. Evelyn Wan
  25. 12. Archival Research Expanded: Bodily Archives and Embodied Fabulation
    1. Lisa Skwirblies
    2. Summary
    3. Introduction
    4. Context
    5. How to
    6. Demonstration
    7. Expanding the method
    8. Suggestions for further reading
    9. References
  26. Part III: Situated Knowledges
  27. 13. Intersectionality
    1. Anika Marschall
  28. 14. Personal Narratives and Social Constructs through Autoethnography in Performance Studies
    1. Wigbertson Julian Isenia
  29. 15. Autoethnography in Performance Studies: The Performativity of Queer Parenting
    1. Fabiola Camuti and Annemijn van der Schaar
  30. Part IV: Embedded and Process-Based Approaches
  31. Embedded and Process-Based Approaches
  32. 16. Practice-led Research: Transversal Ways of Sensing/Knowing
    1. Konstantina Georgelou
      1. Summary
  33. 17. Affective Attunement: Mapping the Invisible
    1. Theron Schmidt
  34. 18. Doing Performance Philosophy: Thinking alongside Performance
    1. Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca
  35. 19. Hyphenated Thinking in Performance Processes: Thinking through Performance-pedagogical Entanglements with More-than-human Matter
    1. Christel Stalpaert
  36. Index
  37. About the Team
  38. This book need not end here…
  39. You may also be interested in:
  40. Back cover

Headings Outline

  • Performance Research Methods
  • Performance Research Methods
    • Interdisciplinary Methods for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies
      •  Edited by Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink and Laura Karreman
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Audio/Video files
  • About the Contributors
  • Acknowledgments 
  • Introduction
    • Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink and Laura Karreman
    • Why this book?
    • A brief positioning
    • Method and methodology
    • The organisation of the book
    • References
  • I
  • Object-Oriented Dramaturgies and Cultural Analysis
  • 1. Concept-Based Analysis
    • Laura Karreman
    • Summary
    • Introduction
    • Context
    • How to
    • Demonstration
    • Expanding the method
    • Suggestions for further reading
    • References
  • 2. Dramaturgical Analysis: A Relational Approach
    • Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink and Sigrid Merx
    • Summary
    • Introduction
    • Context | Dramaturgical analysis—a brief positioning
    • How to
      • A dramaturgical triad: composition, spectator, context
      • Connecting the vectors: spectatorship, statements, situatedness
    • Demonstration | Radical re-enactment in Florentina Holzinger’s Apollon
    • Expanding the method | Dramaturgy in public space
    • Suggestions for further reading
    • References
  • 3. Spectatorship Analysis
    • Maaike Bleeker
    • Summary
    • Introduction
    • Context
    • How to
    • Demonstration
    • Expanding the method
    • Suggestions for further reading
    • References
  • 4. Movement Analysis
    • Andrew Fuhrmann, Lise Uytterhoeven, andRachel Fensham
    • Summary
    • Introduction
    • Context
    • How to
      • The movement of a single body
        • Movement dynamics
        • Effort analysis
        • Gesture
      • The movement of an ensemble
        • Transposition
        • Social choreography
      • Movement ecologies
        • Rhythmic milieu
        • Algorithmic performance
    • Demonstration
    • Expanding the method
    • Suggestions for further reading
    • References
  • 5. Dance Analysis
    • Sarah Whatley
    • Summary
    • Introduction
    • Context | The development of dance analysis
    • How to | Core elements and main concepts
    • Demonstration
    • Expanding the method
    • Suggestions for further reading
    • References
  • 6. Music Always Does Something: Analysing Musical Theatre 
    • Millie Taylor
    • Summary
    • Introduction
    • Context 
    • How to
    • Demonstration | Music and narrative interactions in Jesus Christ Superstar
      • Historical context
      • Analysis of the work
        • a. Musical repetitions
        • b. Musical construction of scenes
        • c. Musical character types
      • Critical reflection
    • Expanding the method | The Tempest (2016) at the Royal Shakespeare Company: sound and music in aliterary theatre
    • Suggestions for further reading
    • References 
  • 7. A Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis of Listening
    • Pieter Verstraete
    • Summary
    • Introduction
    • Context | Multimodality, discourse and the listening subject
    • How to | Modes of listening and ideology
    • Demonstration | A multimodal critical discourse analysis of Soldaat van Oranje
    • Expanding the method | From music theatre to audio-visual media analysis
    • Suggestions for further reading
    • References
  • II
  • Histories, Contexts, Ecologies
  • 8. Discourse Analysis
    • Sruti Bala
    • Summary
    • Introduction
    • Context
    • How to
    • Demonstration
    • Expanding the method
    • Suggestions for further reading
    • References
  • 9. Creating Art Ecologies through Contextual Analysis
    • Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink
    • Summary
    • Introduction
    • Context | Situating contextual analysis
    • How to | Contextual analysis at work
    • Demonstration | Resilient bodies and their politics of perception
    • Expanding the method | Mycelium thinking in-between disciplines
    • Suggestions for further reading
    • References
  • 10. Cultural Materialism and the Politics of Performance
    • Dick Zijp
    • Summary
    • Introduction
    • Context | Why cultural materialism, why now?
    • How to | Keywords
    • Demonstration | From emergent to dominant: the ‘ironic transgression’ of Theo Maassen
    • Expanding the method | Dries Verhoeven’s Brothers exalt thee to freedom (2021)
    • Suggestions for further reading
    • References
  • 11. Tracing Histories: An Archaeological Approach
    • Evelyn Wan
    • Summary
    • Introduction
    • Context
    • How to
    • Demonstration
    • Expanding the method
    • Suggestions for further reading
    • References
  • 12. Archival Research Expanded: Bodily Archives and Embodied Fabulation
    • Lisa Skwirblies
    • Summary
    • Introduction
    • Context
    • How to
    • Demonstration
    • Expanding the method
    • Suggestions for further reading
    • References
  • III
  • Situated Knowledges
  • 13. Intersectionality
    • Anika Marschall
    • Summary
    • Introduction
    • Context
    • How to
    • Demonstration
    • Expanding the method
    • Suggestions for further reading
    • References
  • 14. Personal Narratives and Social Constructs through Autoethnography in Performance Studies
    • Wigbertson Julian Isenia
    • Summary
    • Introduction
    • Context
    • How to
    • Demonstration
    • Expanding the method
    • Suggestions for further reading
    • References
  • 15. Autoethnography in Performance Studies: The Performativity of Queer Parenting
    • Fabiola Camuti and Annemijn van der Schaar
    • Summary
    • Introduction
    • Context
    • How to
      • Data analysis and interpretation
      • Data management
      • Writing styles
      • Evaluation and ethics
    • Demonstration | Who’s the real mother: the performativity of queer parenting
      • Co-constructed narrative
      • Analysis
    • Expanding the method
      • Context
      • The trigger moment
      • Personal sub-study and autoethnography
    • Suggestions for further reading
    • References
  • IV
  • Embedded and Process-Based Approaches
  • 16. Practice-led Research: Transversal Ways of Sensing/Knowing
    • Konstantina Georgelou
      • Summary
    • Introduction
    • Context | Situating practice-led methods
    • How to | Attending laterally
    • Demonstration | Practice-led research on dramaturgy
    • Expanding the method | Embedding practice-led methods in a course
    • Suggestions for further reading
    • References
  • 17. Affective Attunement: Mapping the Invisible
    • Theron Schmidt
    • Summary
    • Introduction
    • Context | Situated knowing and unknowing
    • How to | Performative mapping
    • Demonstration | Borderline visible
    • Expanding the method | Grounded theory
    • Suggestions for further reading
    • References
  • 18. Doing Performance Philosophy: Thinking alongside Performance
    • Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca
    • Summary
    • Introduction
    • Context
    • How to
      • Three ways of doing performance philosophy
        • Directives for attention-training: performing philosophy as encounter
        • Thinking from correspondence: performing philosophy as letter-writing
        • Performance philosophy as formal experiment
    • Demonstration
    • Expanding the method
    • Suggestions for further reading and listening
    • References
  • 19. Hyphenated Thinking in Performance Processes: Thinking through Performance-pedagogical Entanglements with More-than-human Matter
    • Christel Stalpaert
      • Summary
      • Introduction
    • Context | Decoloniality and new materialism
    • How to | Hyphenated thinking in performance processes
    • Demonstration
      • Constituting a transdisciplinary alliance and moving through the hyphens in-between fields of knowledge
      • Thinking through the milieu of the SZenne River landscape and hyphenating with more-than-human matter
        • Rehearsing a deep sensorial mapping and unlearning conventional cartographic mapping methodologies
        • Storying (hydro-)ecological matters of concern and fabulating our common world-to-come
      • Weaving individual grief memories into a Living Bil during Agoras
    • Expanding the method | Schooling within the university infrastructure
    • Suggestions for further reading
    • References
  • Index
  • About the Team
  • This book need not end here…
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