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Performance Studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines the nature and significance of performance in various contexts, including theater, dance, ritual, and everyday life. It explores how performances shape and reflect cultural identities, social dynamics, and power relations, employing methodologies from the humanities and social sciences.
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Performance Studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines the nature and significance of performance in various contexts, including theater, dance, ritual, and everyday life. It explores how performances shape and reflect cultural identities, social dynamics, and power relations, employing methodologies from the humanities and social sciences.

Key research themes

1. How are measurement validity and reliability established and ensured in performance-related research?

This research theme focuses on the methods and best practices for developing, testing, and confirming the validity and reliability of measurement instruments used to study performance. It is critical to ensure that data collected in performance studies are accurate, consistent, and meaningful to support valid interpretations and conclusions.

Key finding: This paper extensively details reliability estimation techniques (test-retest, split-half, inter-rater, internal consistency) and their applicability in ensuring measurement stability over time and across raters. It also... Read more
Key finding: This study evaluates the psychometric validation of a structured questionnaire assessing psychological flourishing's five dimensions (PERMA): positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment. It... Read more
Key finding: This textbook offers foundational guidance on research methodology with an emphasis on qualitative approaches and the importance of clear conceptualization, methodology selection, and criteria handling in research design. It... Read more

2. What are effective methodological approaches for studying performance phenomena through empirical and observational research?

This theme investigates the use of various research methods including surveys, interviews, experimental designs, and observational studies to capture authentic performance behaviors and outcomes. It emphasizes strategies to reduce bias, enhance validity, and select appropriate designs tailored to specific performance inquiry questions, thus strengthening the empirical basis of performance studies.

Key finding: This paper systematically compares non-experimental methods (surveys, interviews, observations) and experimental designs for various research goals related to behavioral performance. It illustrates how method selection... Read more
Key finding: Through a mixed-method survey and statistical analysis, this study assesses classroom physical environmental factors' influence on both students’ academic performance and musculoskeletal discomfort. It exemplifies integrated... Read more
Key finding: This longitudinal mixed-methods research delineates a four-phase inquiry into how teaching as inquiry processes support development of learners' intercultural capabilities through experiential learning in language contexts.... Read more

3. How is choreography explored and analyzed as a mode of performance, particularly through innovative and emergent practices involving technology and embodiment?

This theme highlights research that conceptualizes choreography not only as artistic expression but also as a research method and sociopolitical inquiry. It emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches that foreground the body as knowledge, the interaction of choreographers with technology such as AI, and documentary modes that engage with social realities through embodied performance.

Key finding: This symposium report conceptualizes documentary choreography as a critical interdisciplinary practice that frames the body as a repository of lived experience, memory, and agency. It presents empirical artistic... Read more
Key finding: The article analyzes an AI-driven choreographic project, Beethoven Complex (2020), exploring the tension and collaboration between AI engineers and choreographers/dancers in creative processes. It reveals techno-performance... Read more
Key finding: This foundational conceptual overview situates Performance Studies as an expansive, interdisciplinary field investigating performance as a multi-layered, dynamic process across social, cultural, and artistic contexts. It... Read more

All papers in Perfromance Studies

Towards Documentary Choreography-Encounter #2" is the second in a series of symposiums linked to the doctoral research of choreographer Arkadi Zaides. This event brings together scholars, activists, artists, dance and performance... more
Editors Alana Gerecke and Laura Levin frame the central concerns and interventions of the issue. They insist that in this historical moment of Women’s Marches, Black Lives Matter, Occupy, and the Idle No More ‘round dance revolution,’ of... more
The nexus between artificial intelligence (AI) and human creativity offers a fascinating paradigm shift in the dynamic field of music composition. To understand the effects on musical composition, production, and performance, this... more
Grotowskiego były postrzegane w bardzo różny sposób. Kardynał Wyszyński uważał je, a przynajmniej Apocalypsis cum figuris, za obrzydliwość 2 , Jacek Woźniakowski tę samą sztukę nazywał "czarną mszą dla ubogich" 3 i zlepkiem bluźnierstw.... more
Recent choreographic works using artificial intelligence (AI) have focused on the motions designed by AI based on vast amounts of data about human bodily movements. However, complications arise when the emphasis shifts to the... more
Recently, the word ’democracy’ has been featured prominently in the press, with calls to restore it, save it from ominous threats and expose challenges to its principles, all predicated on an assumed understanding of the concept. Many of... more
W sprawie partytury teatralnej podejmuje zagadnienia metodologicznych i technicznych problemów związanych z rekonstruowaniem dzieła teatralnego na podstawie zachowanej dokumentacji i innych materiałów archiwalnych, a także z... more
Od teatru do telewizji i internetu. Rzecz o Teatrze Telewizji Teatr telewizji funkcjonował w wielu krajach na całym świecie, a nie tylko, jak można by sądzić na podstawie obiegowych opinii, w Polsce. Wiesław Godzic przytaczał słowa... more
es éléments sur le corps comme des métaphores... l’œuvre Le jardin. L’œuvre Le jardin est une performance (une œuvre en évolution) pour un homme, trois femmes, et un chœur de trois femmes. Les éléments utilisés dans la performance sont le... more
This article covers the work of Hungarian director Árpád Schilling in the perspective of his direct political activities against Viktor Orbán’s manipulations of democracy. The author situates the theatrical activities of this director as... more
Dorota Sosnowska opisuje, jak podjęta w „Spektaklu dla turystów” Wojtka Ziemilskiego wycieczka w taniec nowoczesny przekształca się w podróż po Polsce i jej współczesności. Według autorki ruch i ciało stają się katalizatorem licznych,... more
Poprzednie tomy "Almanachu Antropologicznego. Communicare", przygotowane w serii opracowanej w Instytucie Kultury Polskiej Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, zainicjowanej przez Andrzeja Mencwela: t. 1: Internet t. 2: Oralność/Piśmienność t. 3:... more
At the beginning of 1965 Jerzy Grotowski and The Theatre of 13 Rows were forced to transfer their headquarters from Wrocław to Opole. One of the most difficult periods in the history of the company coincided with the resounding success of... more
This is the directors note on the play Thathamaram, written, directed and designed by Chandradasan and performed by Mazhavillu, the children's theatre wing of Lokadharmi, Kochi.
Punktem wyjścia dla mojego wystąpienia będzie zainicjowana przez Konstantego Puzynę w latach 70. rubryka „Próby zapisu” w czasopiśmie „Dialog”. Jej celem było uporanie się z rzeczywistością teatralną, w której spektakl nie był już... more
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