Provides many detailed project case studies and examples - including successful practice-based PhDs - plus analysis of dynamic couplings between methods, methodologies and skill-sets.

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• List of Figures
• Introduction: Doing Methods Creatively Baz Kershaw and Helen Nicholson
• 1. The Imperative of the Archive: Creative Archive Research Maggie B. Gale and Ann Featherstone
• 2. Researching Digital Performance: Virtual Practices Steve Dixon
• 3. Practice as Research: Transdisciplinary Innovation in Action Baz Kershaw with Lee Miller/ Joanne‘Bob’ Whalley and Rosemary Lee/ Niki Pollard
• 4. Researching Theatre History and Historiography Jim Davis, Katie Normington and Gilli Bush-Bailey with Jacky Bratton
• 5. Researching Scenography Joslin McKinney and Helen Iball
• 6. Performer Training: Researching Practice in the Theatre Laboratory Jonathan Pitches, Simon Murray, Helen Poynor, Libby Worth, David Richmond and Jules Dorey Richmond
• 7. The Question of Documentation: Creative Strategies in Performance Research Adam J. Ledger with Simon K. Ellis and Fiona Wright
• 8. The Usefulness of Mess: Artistry, Improvisation and Decomposition in the Practice of Research in Applied Theatre Jenny Hughes with Jenny Kidd and Catherine McNamara
• 9. Researching the Body in/as Performance Jennifer Parker-Starbuck and Roberta Mock
• Notes on Contributors