Documenting our practice
A series of videos documenting our practice-based research by Art Docs.
Patrick Campbell
Patrick Campbell’s academic research focuses on the ways in which contemporary theatre artists in Europe and Latin America are challenging monolithic, phallogocentric framings of subjectivity, representability and heritage through performance and training.
Kevin Egan & Rachel Rimmer-Piekarczyk
Kevin Egan and Rachel Rimmer-Piekarczyk are both artist-researchers who work predominantly with the international performance company, Reckless Sleepers, most notably in recent projects A String Section, Schrödinger, Negative Space and It’s Hot, It’s Not. As artists, their own work spans dance, live art, theatre and performance and their recent projects bring together expertise in the areas of performer training, participatory practice, scored performance and collaborative methodologies. In this video, alongside Artistic Director Mole Wetherell and company member Lisa Kendall, they discuss these ideas in relation to the making of a new Reckless Sleepers’ project they are currently devising, Binary Opposition.
Neil Mackenzie
Neil Mackenzie’s research is concerned with performance curation, and draws on his role as Artistic Director/Curator of Future Flares Festival, whilst drawing on his programming of Axis Arts Centre. This area examines recent trends in international avant-garde theatre, and engages in debates around the curation of new theatrical performance and the identification and value of ‘aesthetic criteria’ utilised in selection.
Michael Pinchbeck
Michael Pinchbeck’s research explores the dramaturgy of devised and one-to-one performance. He is currently creating immersive adaptations from the books of John Berger and Jean Mohr. Another Way of Telling is the final piece of The Berger & Mohr Trilogy. He has also created immersive audio experiences for site-specific contexts such as Sit with us for a moment and remember for Lakeside Arts, Nottingham drawing on University of Nottingham archives. Supported by Manchester School of Art and Arts Council England.
Rachel Rimmer-Piekarczyk
Rachel Rimmer-Piekarczyk’s practice-research focuses on dance and performance training more broadly. Her work explores the relationship between critical reflection, embodiment and post-structuralist perspectives on agency, investigating how the presence of reflection in body-based training environments disrupts dominant understandings of training in the west.
Showcasing our research
We regularly host book launches and display our publications on campus.
Recent Publications
Here is a list of recent publications by members of the Performance Research Group.
- Boll. J. & Edelman, J. (2023) ‘The Affective Underpinnings of British Toryism: Nostalgia, Futurity, and the Performativity of the Commons’, Coils of the Serpent.
- Deeney, JF and Gale, MB eds (2015) Fifty Modern and Contemporary Dramatists. London: Routledge.
- Edelman, J (2020) Mike Daisey’s False Witness in Theatre Scandals: Social Dynamics of Turbulent Theatrical Events eds Cremora, VA et al, Leiden: Brill
- Edelman, J, Hansen, LE, and van den Hoogen, Q (2016) The Problem of Theatrical Autonomy Amsterdam University Press
- Egan, K (2024) ‘A Score of a Score of a Score: Examining Concerto Through Ravel’s Composition.’ In Pinchbeck, M & Smith, O (eds.) The Ravel Trilogy: Following the Score. Bristol: Intellect.
- Egan, K & Pinchbeck, M (2022) Staging Scores: Devising Contemporary Performances from Classical Music, Open Library of Humanities 8(1)
- Gale, MB and Deeney, JF eds (2016) The Routledge Drama Anthology: From Modernism to Contemporary Performance. Second edition, London: Routledge.
- Pikes, M and Campbell, P (2019) Owning our Voices: Vocal Discovery in the Wolfsohn-Hart Tradition. London: Routledge.
- Pinchbeck, M (2020) Acts of Dramaturgy: The Shakespeare Trilogy Bristol: Intellect
- Pinchbeck, M. (2023), The Ravel Trilogy: Following the Score. Bristol: Intellect.
- Pinchbeck, M & Baynton, R (2022) Co-creation In Reason, M, Conner, L, Johanson, K and Walmsley, B (eds) Routledge Companion to Audiences and the Performing Arts Routledge: London.
- Rimmer-Piekarczyk, R. (2024) “Constructing codes of behaviour: the ‘doxic agreement’ as a force for agency in contemporary dance technique training.” Theatre, Dance and Performance Training. 15(2), pp. 235 – 250.
- Rimmer-Piekarczyk, R. (2023) “Facilitating Individual Agency in British Contemporary Dance Technique Training: A Praxical Pedagogical Approach.” In Colin, N., Seago, C. and Stamp, K. Ethical Agility in Dance: Rethinking Technique in British Contemporary Dance. London: Routledge, pp. 81 – 96.
- Rimmer-Piekarczyk, R. (2023) “Destabilizing the habitus in contemporary dance technique training: the ‘reflexive-dialogical’ as a mode of ‘practising.’” Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices. 15(1), pp. 119 – 131.
- Turner, J & Campbell, P (2021) A Poetics of Third Theatre: Performer Training in Dramaturgy, Cultural Action, London: Routledge.
- Westerside, A & Pinchbeck, M (eds) (2018)Staging Loss: Performance as Commemoration. London: Palgrave MacMillan