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Last updated 23 March 2005

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Adams, John. 2000. Editorial: some issues in practice-based teaching and research. Journal of Media Practice 1: 2-4.

Andrews, Stuart and Nelson, Robin. 2003. Regulations and protocols governing ‘Practice as Research’ (PaR) in the performing arts in the UK leading to the award of PhD
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Anscombe, G. E. M. 1963. Intention. Oxford: Blackwell.

Auslander, Philip. 1994. Presence and Resistance: Postmodernism and Cultural Politics. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

1996. Liveness: performance and the anxiety of simulation. In E. Diamond (ed.), Performance and Cultural Politics. London: Routledge, 198-213.

1997. Against ontology: making distinctions between the live and the mediatized. Performance Research 2(3): 50-55.

1997. From Acting to Performance. London: Routledge.

1997. Ontology vs. history: making distinctions between the live and the mediatized. http://webcast.gatech.edu/papers/arch/Auslander.html.

1999. Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture. London: Routledge.

2001. Looking at records. The Drama Review 169: 77-83.

Austin, J. L. 1979. Performative utterances. In J. O. Urmson and G. J. Warnock (eds), Philosophical Papers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 234-252.

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Barba, E. 1982. Theatre Anthropology. The Drama Review 26: 5-32.

Barba, Eugenio and Savarese, Nicola, translated by Richard Fowler. 1991. A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology: the secret art of the performer. London: Centre for Performance Research.

Barba, Eugenio, translated by Richard Fowler. 1994. The Paper Canoe: a guide to theatre anthropology. London and New York: Routledge.

Barker, Martin. 2003. Crash, theatre audiences, and the idea of ‘liveness’. Studies in Theatre and Performance 23 (1): 21-39

Biggs, Michael. 2003. The rôle of ‘the work’ in art and design research
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Blau, Herbert. 1976. Seeming, seeming: the disappearing act. The Drama Review 20(4): 7-24.

1983. Universals of performance; or amortalizing play. SubStance 37/38: 140-161.

1992. To All Appearances: Ideology and Performance. London: Routledge.

Borsato, Diane. 2001. Sleeping with cake: and other affairs of the heart. The Drama Review 169: 59-67.

Briginshaw, Valerie and Claid, Emilyn. 2003. Embodying ambiguities: intertextual plays between space/time philosophies and the performing body
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Burgess, Robert. 1997. Practice-based Doctorates in Creative and Performing Arts and Design. Coventry: UK Council for Graduate Education.

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Carr, D. 1978. Practical reasoning and knowing how. Journal of Movement Studies 4 (1): 3-20.

1987. Reason and inspiration in dance and choreography. In J. Adshead (ed.). Choreography: principles and practice. Guildford: University of Surrey / NRCD, pp. 40-50.

1999a. Art, practical knowledge and aesthetic objectivity. Ratio 12 (3): 240-256.

1999b. Further reflections on practical knowledge and dance a decade on. In G. McFee (ed.). Dance, Education and Philosophy. Oxford: Meyer and Meyer Sport.

Cassens Stoian, Linda. 2002. Learning performance by doing archiving performance. Performance Research 7(4): 128-134.

Chanan, Michael. 2002. Uses and abuses of documentary. Journal of Media Practice 2 (2): 83-88.

Clarke, Paul. 2004. An experiential approach to theory from within practice
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Cologni, Elena. 2003. Documenting performative practice
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Copeland, Roger. 1990. The presence of mediation. The Drama Review 34(4): 42.

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. 1990. Society, culture and person: a systems view of creativity. In Robert J. Sternberg (ed.), The Nature of Creativity: Contemporary Psychological Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 325-339.

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Daboo, Jerri. 2003. Removing the writing from the wall, and then removing the wall: cultivating a sense of the ridiculous in practice as research. Studies in Theatre and Performance 23 (2): 125-134.

Dehlholm, Kirsten. 2002. Questionnaire 3. Performance Research 7(4): 86-87.

De Marinis, Marco. 1985. 'A faithful betrayal of performance': notes on the use of video in theatre. New Theatre Quarterly 1(4): 383-389.

Diamond, Elin. 1996. Performance and Cultural Politics. London: Routledge.

Diller, E. and R. Scofidio. 1992. Case No. 00-17163. In J. Crary and S. Kwinter (eds), Incorporations, Zone 6. New York: Urzone Inc, pp. 344-361.

Dixon, Steve. 1999. Digits, discourse and documentation: performance research and hypermedia. The Drama Review 43(1).

Dixon, Steve. 2003. Absent fiends : internet theatre, posthuman bodies and the interactive void. Presence. http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/epai/presencesite/html/dixon00.html

Dowmunt, Tony. 2003. A Whited Sepulchre: autobiographical film/video as practice/research. Journal of Media Practice 4 (1): 17-26.

2003. Mother pictures: an autobiographical video work in progress
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Dreyblatt, Arnold. 2002. Questionnaire 2. Performance Research 7(4): 48-49.

Dunn, J. 1997. Back to the Rough Ground: practical judgement and the lure of technique. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.

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Elliot, Nils Lindahl. 2000. Pedagogic discourse in theory-practice courses in Media Studies. Screen 41(1): 18-32.

Ellis, John. 2000. What do we mean by media practice education? Journal of Media Practice 1: 5-11.

2003. Research and the problem of ‘the industry’
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Erenstein, Robert L. 1988. Theatre and Television. Amsterdam.

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Fische-Lichte, Erika. 1997. Performance art and ritual: bodies in performance. Theatre Research International 22(1): 22-37.

Foreman, Richard. 2002. Questionnaire 1. Performance Research 7(4): 12-13.

Francombe, Ben. 2002. Falling off a wall: degrees of change in British actor training. Studies in Theatre and Performance 21(3): 176-187

Fuchs, Elinor. 1985. Presence and the revenge of writing: rethinking theatre after Derrida. Performing Arts Journal 26(7): 163-173.

Furnham, David. 2003. The Cinema of Comic Illusions
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Gaber, Ivor and Angela Phillips. 2000. Practising what we preach: the role of practice in media degrees — and journalism in particular. Journal of Media Practice 1: 49-54.

Garner, Stanton.1994. Bodied Spaces: phenomenology and performance in contemporary drama. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Goulish, Matthew. 2003. Lecture in the shape of a bridge collapsing. Presence. http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/epai/presencesite/html/goul00.html

Gray, Carole and Ian Pirie. 1995. Artistic research procedure: research at the edge of chaos? Proceedings of 'Design Interfaces' conference, University of Salford, April 1995, volume 3: pp. 1-27.

Grossman, Peter Z. 1979. Talking with Merce Cunningham about Video. Dance Scope 13(2–3): 57.

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Harrison, A. 1978. Making and Thinking: a study of intelligent activities. Hassocks: Harvesters Press.

Heathfield, Adrian. 1997. Facing the other: the performance encounter and death. In Adrian Heathfield (ed.), Shattered Anatomies: Traces of the Body in Performance. Bristol: Arnolfini Live, n.p.

Heddon, Deirdre. 2002. Performing the archive: following in the footsteps. Performance Research 7(4): 64-77.

Hintikka, J. 1975. Practical versus theoretical reason - an ambiguous legacy. In S. Korner (ed.). Practical Reason. Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 83-102.

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Jameson, Frederic. 1987. Reading without interpretation: postmodernism and the video-text. In Nigel Fabb, et al (eds), The Linguistics of Writing: Arguments Between Language and Literature. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 199-223.

Jones, Simon. 2003. The Courage of Complementarity. PARIP 2003 Keynote
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Kaye, Nick. 1994. Postmodernism and Performance. Basingstoke: Macmillan Press Ltd.

1994. Live Art: definition and documentation. Contemporary Theatre Review 2(2): 1-7.

1996. Art into Theatre: Performance Interviews and Documents. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic.

2000. Site Specifics: Performance, Place and Documentation. London: Routledge.

Kennedy, Barbara. 2002. Performative Spaces: the intersticial places of creative practice and research. Review in Journal of Media Practice 2 (2): 126-132

Kenny, A. 1966. Practical inference. Analysis 26 (3): 65-75.

Kershaw, Baz. 2002. Performance, memory, heritage, history, spectacle — The Iron Ship. Studies in Theatre and Performance 21(3): 132-149

Knudsen, Erik. 2003. Creation and I, me and my work. Journal of Media Practice 3 (2): 107-114.

2003. Doctorate by media practice. Journal of Media Practice 3 (3): 179-184.

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Lakoff, George and Johnson, Mark. 1995. Philosophy in the Flesh: the embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought. New York: Basic Books.

Loukes, Rebecca. 2003. Tracing bodies: researching psychophysical training for performance. Performance Research 8 (4): 54-60.

Lovell, Robb E. 2000. Computer intelligence in theatre. New Theatre Quarterly 63: 255-262.

Loveless, Richard and Goodman, Lizbeth. 1999. Live and media performances — the next frontier. Performance Research 4(2): 72-77.

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McAuley, Gay. 1994. The visual documentation of theatrical performance. New Theatre Quarterly 38: 192.

Macdonald, Ian. 2000. Related vocational qualifications in media practice education: an analysis of the rationale, and historical and political contexts. Journal of Media Practice 1: 12-22.

McHoul, Alec and Lucy Niall. 1994. That film, this paper — its body. Southern Review 27(3): 303-322.

McLaughlin, Cahal. 2003. Collaboration as research: testimonies from the apartheid era. Journal of Media Practice 3 (3): 171-177.

Martin, Jacqueline and Willmar Sauter, eds. 1995. Understanding Theatre: Performance Analysis in Theory and Practice. N.p.: Almqvist and Wiksell.

Mellencamp, Patricia. 1985. Seeming, seeming: the disappearing act. The Drama Review 37(3): 141-154.

Melrose, Susan. 2002. Entertaining other options: Restaging 'theory' in the age of practice as research. http://www.sfmelrose.u-net.com/inaugural/

2002. Please adjust your set. http://www.sfmelrose.u-net.com/adjustyourset/

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Textual turns — and a turn-up for the books. http://www.sfmelrose.u-net.com/nottingham/

2003. Before the posthuman can take [its] place: performing place and person in the early 21st century. Presence http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/epai/presencesite/html/susan00.html

Melrose, Susan (ed.). 2003. Virtuosity and Performance Mastery Symposum. http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/epai/virtuosity/

Melzer, Annabelle. 1995. 'Best betrayal': the documentation of performance on video and film. New Theatre Quarterly 42: 147-150.

1995. 'Best betrayal': the documentation of performance on video and film. New Theatre Quarterly 43: 259-274.

Miller, Jonathan. 1986. Subsequent Performances. London: Faber and Faber.

Mock, Roberta, ed. 2000. Performing Processes: Creating Live Performance. Bristol: Intellect.

Mock, Roberta, Franc Chamberlain, Simon Ellis, Nicholas Till and John C Whelan. 2004. Reflections on practice as research following the PARIP conference, 2003. Studies in Theatre and Performance 24 (2): 129-141.

Moggan, Julie. 2003. Reflections of a neophyte: a university versus a broadcast context. Journal of Media Practice 3 (2): 97-106.

Morgan, Richard Huw. 2003. In strictest confidence — 21 anti-algorithmic excerpts
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Novarina, Valère. 2001. The debate with space. The Drama Review 169: 118-127.

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Pakes, Anna. 2001. Dance Interpretation and the Cultural Institution: exploring the condition(s) of British and French Contemporary Dance in the 1990s. Unpublished PhD thesis. London: Laban / City University.

2003. Original embodied knowledge: the epistemology of the new in dance practice as research. Research in Dance Education 4 (2): 127-149.

Pavis, Patrice. 1982. Languages of the Stage: Essays in the Semiology of the Theatre. New York: PAJ Publications.

2001. Theatre studies and interdisciplinarity. Theatre Research International 26(2): 153-163.

Pearson. 1997. Special worlds, secret maps: a poetics of performance. In A. M. Taylor (ed.), Staging Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, pp. 85-99.

Pearson, Mike and Michael Shanks. 2000. Theatre/Archaeology. New York and London: Routledge.

Pearson, Mike and Julian Thomas. 1994. Theatre/Archaeology. The Drama Review 38(4): 133-161.

'Performing autobiography' issue of Women and Performance: a Journal of Feminist Theory. 1999.

Phelan, Peggy. 1993. Unmarked: the Politics of Performance. London: Routledge.

Piccini, Angela. 2002. Viewpoint on Mackey’s ‘Drama, Landscape and Memory: to be is to be in place’. Research in Drama Education 7 (2): 239­–242.

2003. An historiographic perspective on practice as research. Studies in Theatre and Performance 23 (3).

2003. Practice as Research in Performance: from epistemology to evaluation. Journal of Media Practice: 4 (2): 113-123. (with Baz Kershaw)

2003. Practising the RAE: panels 64, 65, 66
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Pitches, Jonathan. 2003. Tracing the living link: documentary complexity in the archive of biomechanics
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Popat, Sita. 2003. The Online Devising Process: Creating theatre through Internet collaboration, Studies in Theatre & Performance 23 (2): 87-105.

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Rabey. David Ian. 2000. On being a Shakespearean dramatist: an approach to The Back of Beyond. Theatre Research International 25(3): 284-294.

Rae, Paul. 2003. Re: invention — on the limits of reflective practice
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Reason, Matthew. 2003. Archive or memory? The detritus of live performance. New Theatre Quarterly 73: 82-89.

Reinelt, J. forthcoming. The Politics of Discourse: Performativity Meets Theatricality. Unpublished manuscript.

Ridout, Nicholas. 2002. Two parrots and an answering machine: some problems with knowledge and memory. Performance Research 7(4): 42-47.

Rosenthal, Rachel. 2001. Zone. The Drama Review 169: 31-58.

Rozik, Eli. 1999. The corporeality of the actor's body: the boundaries of theatre and the limitations of semiotic methodology. Theatre Research International 24(2): 198-211.

Rye, Caroline. 2000. Living Cameras: A Study of Live Bodies and Mediatized Images in Multi-Media Performance and Installation Art Practice. Unpublished PhD. Edinburgh: Napier University.

2003. Incorporating practice: a multi-viewpoint approach to performance documentation. Journal of Media Practice 3 (2): 115-123.

2003. Video writing
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Ryle, G. 1949. The Concept of Mind. London: Hutchinson.

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Salt, Barry. 2002. Practical film theory and its application to TV series drama. Journal of Media Practice 2 (2): 98-113.

Saxton, Juliana and Miller Carol (eds). 1998. Drama and Theatre in Education: the research of practice, the practice of research. London: IDEA Publications.

Schieffelin, Edward. 1998. Problematizing performance. In Felicia Hughes-Freeland (ed.), Ritual, Performance, Media. London: Routledge.

Schön, Donald A. 1983. The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action. Temple Smith.

Searle, J. R. 2001. Rationality in Action. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Shevtsova, Maria. 1999. Bells and alarm clocks: theatre and theatre research at the millennium. Theatre Research International 24(1): 98-108.

2001. Social practice, interdisciplinary perspective. Theatre Research International 26(2): 129-136.

Smart, Jackie. 2001. The disruptive dialogue of dance for the camera. Journal of Media Practice 2: 37-47.

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Thomson, Peter (compiler). 2003. Practice as research. Studies in Theatre and Performance 22 (3): 159-180.

Tschumi, B. 1994. The Manhattan Transcripts. London: Academy Editions.

Thrift, Nigel and John-David Dewsbury. 2000. Dead geographies — and how to make them live. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 18: 411-432.

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Varney, Denise and Rachel Fensham. 1998. Documenting and disseminating performing arts research. In Alison Richards and Angela O'Brien (eds), Proceedings of the National Symposium on Research in the Performing Arts. Melbourne: School of Studies in Creative Arts.

2000. More-and-less-than: liveness, video recording, and the future of performance. New Theatre Quarterly 61: 88-96.

Von Wright, G. H. 1963. Practical inference. Philosophical Review 72.

1971. Explanation and Understanding. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

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Wagner, Anne M. 2000. Performance, video and the rhetoric of presence. October 91: 59-80.

Way, Ruth. 2003. South west forum presentation
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Wayne, Mike. 2001. Problems and possibilities in developing critical practice. Journal of Media Practice 2: 30-36.

Welton, Martin. 2003. Against inclusivity: a happy heresy about theory and practice. New Theatre Quarterly 19 (4): 347-351.

2003. Practice as research and the mind-body problem
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Williford, Christa. 2000. A computer reconstruction of Richelieu's Palais Cardinal Theatre, 1641. Theatre Research International 25(3): 233-247.

Wilson, Michael. 2003. Revisiting Brecht: preparing Galileo for production. Studies in Theatre and Performance 22 (3): 145-157.

Woods, David. 2002. The grove of academe. Total Theatre 14 (4): 16-18.

Wright, Fiona. 2002. uncertain bodies: fragments. Performance Research 7 (4): 88-91.

2003. slowly kissing down with tears
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Zarrilli, P. 2002. Negotiating performance epistemologies: knowledges 'about', 'in' and 'for'. Studies in Theatre and Performance 21: 31-46.

 

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