Overview
Makes the first systematic attempt to bring together and reflect on issues pertaining to performance pedagogy in an international university classroom
Brings together diverse perspectives of performance pedagogy from institutions, students, teachers and artists
Uses MAIPR as a case study to examine broader questions pertinent to the present and the future of theatre and performance studies
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The University as a Platform
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About this book
This book offers a unique and much-needed interrogation of the broader questions surrounding international performance research which are pertinent to the present and the future of Theatre and Performance studies. Marking the completion of eight years of the Erasmus Mundus MA Programme in International Performance Research (MAIPR) - a programme run jointly by the universities of Warwick (UK), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Helsinki/Tampere (Finland), Arts in Belgrade (Serbia), and Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) - the essays in this volume take stock of the achievements, insights and challenges of what international performance research is or ought to be about. By reflecting on the discipline of Performance Studies using the MAIPR programme as a case study in point, the volume addresses the broader question of the critical link between the discipline of Performance Studies and humanities education in general, examining their interactions in the contemporary university in the context of globalisation.
Reviews
“This volume asks an important question: How do we think about and through a truly international education in performance research that counters Neoliberal modes of value while avoiding nostalgia for a European enlightenment model of education? International Performance Research Pedagogies offers a series of possible answers through a rigorous set of essays focusing on pedagogy and research within European university collaborations, arguing for performance as an unconditional discipline. This collection is rich, timely, and important in a time of crisis for international education, offering hope and challenge through the unique contribution of embodied performance research.” (Patricia Ybarra, Chair and Associate Professor of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, Brown University, Rhode Island, USA)
“How do we ‘walk our talk’ or perform what we profess as radical educators in the field of theatre and performance research? Often our ideas about the politics of knowledge production come undone in the training of new practitioners and scholars. Given the field’s fluidity and refusal to be an ‘unconditional discipline’, what might a ‘performative’ pedagogy be like? How can it truly model or embody an ‘equality of intelligences’ and knowledges especially in an international context that is well beyond the West-Rest divide? The book offers grounded and very practical but critically insightful and honest answers to these difficult questions as it shares concrete experiences at the classroom level in an international collaborative programme.” (Jazmin Llana, Associate Professor of Drama, Theatre and Performance, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sruti Bala is Assistant Professor in Theatre Studies at the University of Amsterdam.
Milija Gluhovic is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Warwick.
Hanna Korsberg is Professor of Theatre Research at the University of Helsinki and was Vice-President of the IFTR 2015–2019.
Kati Röttger is Professor and Chair of the Institute of Theatre Studies at the University of Amsterdam.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Performance Research Pedagogies
Book Subtitle: Towards an Unconditional Discipline?
Editors: Sruti Bala, Milija Gluhovic, Hanna Korsberg, Kati Röttger
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53943-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-53942-3Published: 17 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85281-2Published: 23 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-53943-0Published: 07 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 235
Topics: Theatre and Performance Studies, Arts, Creativity and Arts Education, Research Methodology, Media Research