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Performance Research Methods: Interdisciplinary Methods for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies
- Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink(editor)
- Laura Karreman(editor)
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| Title | Performance Research Methods |
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| Subtitle | Interdisciplinary Methods for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies |
| Contributor | Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink(editor) |
| Laura Karreman(editor) | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0469 |
| Landing page | https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/OBP.0469 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink; Laura Karreman. Copyright of individual chapters are maintained by the chapter author(s). |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
| Publication place | Cambridge, UK |
| Published on | 2025-10-24 |
| ISBN | 978-1-80511-607-3 (Paperback) |
| 978-1-80511-608-0 (Hardback) | |
| 978-1-80511-609-7 (PDF) | |
| 978-1-80511-611-0 (HTML) | |
| 978-1-80511-610-3 (EPUB) | |
| Short abstract | 'Performance Research Methods' is the first comprehensive guide to contemporary methodologies in performance studies, offering a clear and structured overview of the tools currently shaping research in theatre, dance, and performance. While many volumes focus on individual methods, this book uniquely surveys a range of approaches, presenting their historical background, analytical potential, practical application, and interdisciplinary relevance. |
| Long abstract | 'Performance Research Methods' is the first comprehensive guide to contemporary methodologies in performance studies, offering a clear and structured overview of the tools currently shaping research in theatre, dance, and performance. While many volumes focus on individual methods, this book uniquely surveys a range of approaches, presenting their historical background, analytical potential, practical application, and interdisciplinary relevance. Designed with clarity and usability in mind, each chapter follows a consistent structure: introduction, contextual framing, practical application, case study demonstration, interdisciplinary expansion, and suggestions for further reading. This format enables readers to compare methods with ease and understand how each can be adapted to real-world research. Developed by scholars actively teaching these methods in graduate and undergraduate programs, this hands-on volume addresses a key gap in the field: the lack of explicit, accessible discussions of performance research methods. Responding to the societal, technological, and ecological contexts of contemporary performance, the book makes visible the knowledge practices that often remain confined to the classroom. Accessible to students, researchers, and arts professionals alike, this volume provides an essential resource for anyone looking to engage critically and creatively with performance in the twenty-first century. |
| Print length | 478 pages (xxii+456) |
| Language | English (Original) |
| Dimensions | 156 x 33 x 234 mm | 6.14" x 1.3" x 9.21" (Paperback) |
| 156 x 37 x 234 mm | 6.14" x 1.46" x 9.21" (Hardback) | |
| Weight | 900g | 31.75oz (Paperback) |
| 1084g | 38.24oz (Hardback) | |
| Media | 18 illustrations |
| 2 videos | |
| 1 audio | |
| OCLC Number | 1547601119 |
| LCCN | 2025465569 |
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Contents
Introduction
(pp. 1–18)- Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink
- Laura Karreman
1. Concept-Based Analysis
(pp. 21–42)- Laura Karreman
- Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink
- Sigrid Merx
3. Spectatorship Analysis
(pp. 67–84)- Maaike Bleeker
4. Movement Analysis
(pp. 85–106)- Andrew Fuhrmann
- Lise Uytterhoeven
- Rachel Fensham
5. Dance Analysis
(pp. 107–124)- Sarah Whatley
- Millie Taylor
- Pieter Verstraete
8. Discourse Analysis
(pp. 169–186)- Sruti Bala
- Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink
- Dick Zijp
11. Tracing Histories: An Archaeological Approach
(pp. 229–246)- Evelyn Wan
- Lisa Skwirblies
13. Intersectionality
(pp. 271–292)- Anika Marschall
14. Personal Narratives and Social Constructs through Autoethnography in Performance Studies
(pp. 293–310)- Wigbertson Julian Isenia
- Fabiola Camuti
- Annemijn van der Schaar
- Konstantina Georgelou
17. Affective Attunement: Mapping the Invisible
(pp. 359–386)- Theron Schmidt
- Laura Cull Ó Maeillorca
Contributors
Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink
(editor)Assistant Professor in Theatre and Performance Studies at the Media and Culture Studies department at Utrecht University
Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink is an Assistant Professor in Theatre and Performance Studies at the Media and Culture Studies Department of Utrecht University. She was the programme coordinator of the Master’s programme in Contemporary Theatre, Dance and Dramaturgy (2014-2024) and teaches in various BA and MA programmes. Her research interests include the intersection of dramaturgy and scenography, performance philosophy, ecology and new materialism. She is the author of Nomadic Theatre: Mobilizing Theory and Practice on the European Stage (Bloomsbury 2019) and has contributed to (among others) The Routledge Companion to Contemporary European Theatre and Performance (2023), Rancière and Performance (Rowman & Littlefield 2021) and Thinking Through Theatre and Performance (Bloomsbury 2019) and Intermedial Performance and Politics in the Public Sphere (Routledge 2018). She currently works on a book on simulation, speculation and futurity in contemporary European dramaturgy (with Sigrid Merx). She is a co-founder of Platform-Scenography and incidentally works as an artistic coach and dramaturgy adviser.
Laura Karreman
(editor)Associate Professor in Media and Performance Studies in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University
Laura Karreman is an Associate Professor in Media and Performance Studies in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She teaches in the MA program Contemporary Theatre, Dance and Dramaturgy and the Research MA Media, Art and Performance Studies (MAPS). She is also the programme coordinator of the MAPS programme. She researches the role of embodied knowledge in dance transmission practices, the role of digitization in performance archives, and epistemological questions that relate to new notions of performance knowledge emerging from developments in the area of AI and Human-Robot interaction. Within the research group Transmission in Motion of the Department of Media and Culture Studies (UU), she relates to topics such as dramaturgy, somatechnics and mobilizing the archive. In her current research she continues to investigate the rapid growth of motion capture as a tool for movement research and animation in order to critically evaluate the cultural and ethical implications of such practices, which now often remain invisible. She is co-editor of the volume Performance and Posthumanism: Staging Prototypes of Composite Bodies (Palgrave Macmillan 2021). Other recent publications include the book chapters “Breathing Matters: Breath as Dance Knowledge” in Futures of Dance Studies (The University of Wisconsin Press, 2020) and “How does motion capture mediate dance?” in Contemporary Choreography: A critical reader (Routledge, 2017), and a chapter on “Cultural Dreams of Datafied Bodies” in the Routledge Companion on Performance and Technology (forthcoming). In 2024, she was conference director of the 9th International Conference on Movement and Computing (MOCO) at Utrecht University.