Performing Arts Community Engagement

Description

As a research group, Performing Arts Community Engagement supports practice-research with a social impact focus.

It develops performance-related projects in collaboration with communities, focused on marginalised or socially disadvantaged groups and individuals. The Group provides platforms for the visibility, self-expression and empowerment of such groups through participation and engagement in self-determined performance activity, knowledge exchange and research.

Researchers within the group investigate questions around embodiment and materiality; affective, somatic and sensory practices; participative and community practices, intersectionality, resistance and the process of performance-making.

The Group's key aims are to:

• Strengthen the relationship between practice research and civic engagement activity
• Be socially responsive
• Develop collaborative practice-research that directly benefits the communities involved
• Add value to the student experience and offer development opportunities for current students to gain professional experience
• Offer engagement opportunities for alumni

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

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Kingston University
Kingston upon Thames