Journeys in Performance
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Posted by Laura Bissell on January 12, 2021 at 10:10 0 Comments 0 Likes
An article I had published earlier this year opens with the line “Performance as an art form is live, ephemeral, and of the moment” (Cultural Geographies, April 2020). Are these words still relevant in the context of this global pandemic?
As a performance-researcher I am keen to examine the way in which contemporary performance-making responds to social, political, ecological and cultural events. I have previously written about the flurry of creative activity which was…
ContinuePosted by David Overend on December 21, 2020 at 10:00 0 Comments 0 Likes
Over the last two years we have been investigating an inexorable web of entanglement between story and place that has emerged during creative research projects. In the following essay we will recount how our experiences working on two such projects during the time of Covid have informed our understanding of the nature of this entanglement and…
ContinuePosted by Sarah Hopfinger on December 16, 2020 at 16:12 0 Comments 0 Likes
My name’s Sarah, I am 32 years old, and I am in companionship with pain . . .
I am trying to listen to you.
To get to know your qualities, character and atmosphere.
To mark you.
Honour you.
To see what you have to say.
And let…
ContinuePosted by David Overend on June 17, 2020 at 15:02 0 Comments 0 Likes
Days before the lockdown began, we made it back to Bamff Estate in Perthshire - the site of Scotland's first reintroduced beavers. Moving on from our usual walking methods, we donned neoprene and attempted some creative swimming experiments. While our usual writing and research is curtailed, here are some images and a couple of short texts from Lewis Hetherington.
Also see Laura Bissell's 'Landscaping with beavers' just published in…
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My new article about our performance field work at rewilding sites has just been published. Read it at…Continue
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Jamie Lorimer has just published The Wild Ways of the Oak, a collaboration with Rosie Fairfax-Cholmeley, which was first developed at our Performing Wild Geographies workshop at Knepp Wildland…Continue
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Laura Bissell's 'Landscaping with beavers' just published in…Continue
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"Water matters: TUG onboard and TUG footpath" by Dr Laura BissellStudies in Theatre and…Continue
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