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The Performance and Communities Research and Enterprise Group celebrates, challenges and researches the various modes of performance (voice, body, space, movement, language, sound, texture, shape, words) and considers how work on performance can engage, work with and learn from existing, evolving and new communities of people.
The research and enterprise group brings together: performance theory and practice; critical theory; cultural and theatrical history; linguistic and textual performance; creative practice to investigate performance.
The group shares a focus on identity, performance and theatricality – ranging from investigations of linguistic gender performance to Suffragette theatre history, from seventeenth-century theatres to contemporary community installations and performance. We have an extended historical perspective and experience of diverse performance contexts, working with local and national arts centres (the National Theatre, The Theatre Royal Brighton, the Booth Museum and Brighton Open Air Theatre) and alongside the cultural industry of theatre and theatrical practice via workshops, talks and postgraduate training networking.
The Performance and Communities REG also offers both a focus and forum for postgraduate students to discuss and share work with expert researchers. Fortnightly events include work-in-progress performances, crits and external speakers from both the academic and theatrical worlds, and writing workshops. We have an excellent publications record and established links with local, national and international theatre companies.
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Projects
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Telepresence Stage for Disability Performing Arts
Sermon, P., Lloyd, J. & Dixon, S.
1/12/23 → 30/11/24
Project: Research Councils / Government Depts.
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Transforming trans-national landscapes of gender-based violence through trans-sensory storying
1/02/23 → 31/01/24
Project: Research Councils / Government Depts.
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The Everyday Creativity Network: Developing Understandings, Methods and Applications Across Boundaries
Johnson, H., Ewbank, N. & Evans, O.
14/11/22 → 13/11/24
Project: Research Councils / Government Depts.
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Performing Maternities - Creative and Critical discussions
Aughterson, K. & Moriarty, J., Nov 2023, Intellect Books. 300 p. (Performance and Communities)Research output: Book/Report › Book - edited › peer-review
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Women Experimenting in theatre: Early Modern to Contemporary
Aughterson, K. & Philips, D., Dec 2023, Palgrave Macmillan. 300 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book - edited › peer-review
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Discourse, Demand, Desire: An Intersectional Analysis of Mass Shooter Texts
Myketiak, C., 2022, (Accepted/In press) Palgrave.Research output: Book/Report › Book - authored › peer-review
Activities
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Reclaiming cabaret. A queer haunted autoethnography or real, researched and imagined stories of cabaret past and present.
Alan Meggs (Presenter)
6 Apr 2022Activity: External talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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From Source To Mouth: Walking the River Bann
Craig Jordan-Baker (Member of expert group) & Cherry Smyth (Member of expert group)
1 May 2021 → 30 Aug 2021Activity: External funding peer-review
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EMBEDDING WELL-BEING INTO THE ENGLISH CURRICULUM
Kate Aughterson (Presenter), Jessica Moriarty (Presenter), MIchelle Prentice (Presenter) & John Morton (Presenter)
Jul 2020Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk