Reimagining Performance Network

Description

The Covid-19 pandemic has reshaped the contemporary performance landscape, creating new spaces for conversation between performers and performance researchers. At this moment of change, the Reimagining Performance Network works to build invaluable networks of support, debate and knowledge exchange between researchers and practitioners across a broad range of disciplines. Members explore pressing new questions in the theatre and other creative fields, looking to both historical and contemporary performance practice to help confront the challenges and opportunities facing the contemporary world.

Key among the Reimagining Performance Network’s questions are:

• What new avenues does ‘performance-as-research’ practice offer traditional theatre scholarship and the theatre industry? What might be gained by fostering new - performance-as-research practices?
• How have minority identities been served or excluded from various forms of performance practice? And what new opportunities present themselves in the contemporary moment?
• If performance has historically offered a cultural and political ‘meeting place’, what do these forms of encounter and tentative community look like today? And what might they look like in the future? What do terms like “liveness”, “ephemerality” and “the archive” mean in today’s performance moment?

The Network’s events bring theatre researchers and practitioners into close working and discursive contact, in order to explore these questions together.

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2021

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University of Oxford
Oxford

University of Oxford
Oxford