Thinking Through Practice

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Trinity Laban has established a new institutional Research Centre, entitled ‘Thinking Through Practice’. The centre aligns with new institutional imperatives regarding diversity; one way of approaching the importance of this issue is to use performance, in all its guises, as a lens through which wider social issues can be addressed. Some questions that the Research Centre will therefore address itself to are:

• How does making and thinking about performances provide a mechanism for wider societal commentary?
• What are the limits of this procedure?
• How can working through the lens of art-making provide value and benefit?
• How can performance-making contribute to disputes and questions in wider disciplinary areas in the sciences and humanities?

As a result it is anticipated the Centre is neither focused solely on practice-based outcomes, nor just theoretical issues surrounding practice, but thinking through practice about wider cultural and societal issues, like diversity, wellbeing, cohesion, community, and so forth. Hence the Centre will be necessarily  multidisciplinary, and will form a focus for institutional research at Trinity Laban that will house its other existing groups, like the Sound and Movement Research Group, and Research Group in Dance Science. The Centre will organise events that would address certain themes at the intersection of these research areas.

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No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2020

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Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
London