Performance Research Group

Description

The Performance Research Group (PRG) consists of internationally recognised theatre-makers, performers, directors, dramaturgs, choreographers, curators and scholars with longstanding relationships with the theatre and performance industry. It nourishes world-leading, industry-focused and interdisciplinary research in the field of performance. We develop practices and build dynamic structures that bring performance artists, researchers, and the creative sector into productive dialogue with one other, in Manchester and globally.

Our work is particularly interdisciplinary and collaborative. We work regularly with external partners, such as theatre companies, public bodies, and third sector organisations. We also work productively with in other disciplines, including media studies, history, English, religious studies, art, sociology, and others, both in Manchester Metropolitan and elsewhere. We have international links to colleagues in Brazil, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, and the US. The interdisciplinary nature of our work is its particular strength. We have the agility to enhance and catalyse research well outside of the field, and our ability to do the sort of innovative, forward-thinking research that can secure large-scale grants is closely linked to this interdisciplinarity.

Our key focus areas include scoring performance and performance curation, performances of memory and commemoration, Third Theatre and Laboratory Theatre practices, and the overlaps between performance and religion.

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Founding year

2020

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Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester

Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester

Partner Infrastructures

Manchester School of Art Research Centre

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Manchester

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Manchester Metropolitan University