Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. List of Figures viii
5. Introduction: Doing Methods Creatively 1
6. 1. The Imperative of the Archive: Creative Archive Research 17
7. 2. Researching Digital Performance: Virtual Practices 41
8. 3. Practice as Research: Transdisciplinary Innovation in Action 63
9. 4. Researching Theatre History and Historiography 86
10. 5. Researching Scenography 111
11. 6. Performer Training: Researching Practice in the Theatre Laboratory 137
12. 7. The Question of Documentation: Creative Strategies in Performance Research 162
13. 8. The Usefulness of Mess: Artistry, Improvisation and Decomposition in the Practice of Research in Applied Theatre 186
14. 9. Researching the Body in/as Performance 210
15. Notes on Contributors 236
16. Index 243