Drama and Performance Research Group

Description

The Drama and Performance Research Group explores the contemporary in performance through practice-led research and traditional academic publications.

Although diverse, work within the Group is anchored to the following three research themes:

• Applied Theatre
• Contemporary Theatre Performance and Practice
• Performance and Place

Interdisciplinary collaborations are key to the Drama and Performance Research Group’s projects. Consequently, staff have worked with English, dance and sport science researchers within Liverpool John Moores University.

Staff have also worked externally with a wide variety of community groups and organisations. For example, researchers from the Drama and Performance Research Group are currently working on a project called Deafening Silence.

Another key project for the Drama and Performance Research Group was Control 25 – a festival exploring the theme of audience control in one-to-one performance. As part of this Arts Council England funded project, researchers from the Drama and Performance Research Group worked with Hope Street Ltd, as well as 20 emerging artists, three nationally established artists and a leading voice in one-to-one performance research. Organisation of the next festival is also under way.

As well as forming collaborations, academics from the Drama and Performance Research Group also publish in monographs and peer reviewed academic journals, as well as writing and producing new work for the theatre. This work tends to explore new theatrical formats and spaces.

Finally, the Group has attracted funding for a range of projects, including a £200,000 Arts and Humanities Research Council grant for work on the Everyman Theatre archive.

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No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

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Liverpool John Moores University
70 Mount Pleasant
Merseyside
L3 5UX