Audiences are an essential component of the performing arts.
Our research themes include:
- The expectation of audiences
- Active participation and spectatorship through listening or interactivity in the performing arts
- How audiences perceive changes in how performances are staged, including the intersection of live and mediated performance and theatre in everyday spaces
| Researcher | Projects |
|---|---|
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Jacobson
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Co-Presence in Contemporary Theatre: how audiences perceive, understand, and produce co-presence Gatherings: Archival and Oral Histories of Performance from across Canada Real-ish: Audiences, Feeling, and the Production of Realness in Contemporary Theatre; how realness is perceived, felt, and produced in particular times and spaces of performance and investigates how such an investigation of realness might be broadly applicable in the contemporary zeitgeist |
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Stephenson
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Participatory performance: examining theatre-game hybrids where audiences become co-creators Theatre of the real: how do dramaturgical markers of realness create an experience of insecurity for audiences |
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Salverson
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Foolish witnessing Performance |
