Research-Based Practice: Situating Vertical City between Artistic Development and Applied Cognitive Science

Hansen, Pil; Barton, Bruce

doi:10.1162/dram.2009.53.4.120

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Research-Based Practice: Situating Vertical City between Artistic Development and Applied Cognitive Science

Pil Hansen,

Pil Hansen

Pil Hansen holds a PhD in Dramaturgy and Perception from University of Copenhagen in Denmark and is presently exploring cognitive layers of memory in creative processes of dance and theatrical devising as a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto in Canada. She has worked as a professional dramaturge of dance, devising, and new circus in Scandinavia and Canada since 2002, and teaches developmental dramaturgy at the University of Toronto. She has published articles in Canadian Theatre Review and Peripeti, as well as the essay collections Space and Composition (Danish National Theatre School and Nordic Centre for the Performing Arts, 2005) and Developing Nation (Playwrights Canada Press, 2009).

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Bruce Barton

Bruce Barton teaches devising, dramaturgy, and intermedial performance at the University of Toronto. He has published in numerous scholarly and practical periodicals as well as several international essay collections. His book publications include Developing Nation: New Play Creation in English-Speaking Canada (2009) and Collective Creation, Collaboration and Devising (2008, both Playwrights Canada Press), Reluctant Texts from Exuberant Performance: Canadian Devised Theatre (Borealis, 2008), Imagination in Transition: Mamet Moves to Film (Peter Lang, 2005), and Marigraph (Playwrights Canada Press, 2004). Current research includes a three-year study on dramaturgies of the body in physically based devised theatre and intermedial performance. Current creative practice includes writing and dramaturgy for multiple devised theatre projects and the creation of aerial-based interdisciplinary performance.

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Pil Hansen

Pil Hansen holds a PhD in Dramaturgy and Perception from University of Copenhagen in Denmark and is presently exploring cognitive layers of memory in creative processes of dance and theatrical devising as a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto in Canada. She has worked as a professional dramaturge of dance, devising, and new circus in Scandinavia and Canada since 2002, and teaches developmental dramaturgy at the University of Toronto. She has published articles in Canadian Theatre Review and Peripeti, as well as the essay collections Space and Composition (Danish National Theatre School and Nordic Centre for the Performing Arts, 2005) and Developing Nation (Playwrights Canada Press, 2009).

Bruce Barton

Bruce Barton teaches devising, dramaturgy, and intermedial performance at the University of Toronto. He has published in numerous scholarly and practical periodicals as well as several international essay collections. His book publications include Developing Nation: New Play Creation in English-Speaking Canada (2009) and Collective Creation, Collaboration and Devising (2008, both Playwrights Canada Press), Reluctant Texts from Exuberant Performance: Canadian Devised Theatre (Borealis, 2008), Imagination in Transition: Mamet Moves to Film (Peter Lang, 2005), and Marigraph (Playwrights Canada Press, 2004). Current research includes a three-year study on dramaturgies of the body in physically based devised theatre and intermedial performance. Current creative practice includes writing and dramaturgy for multiple devised theatre projects and the creation of aerial-based interdisciplinary performance.

Online ISSN: 1531-4715

Print ISSN: 1054-2043

2009

TDR/The Drama Review (2009) 53 (4 (204)): 120–136.

https://doi.org/10.1162/dram.2009.53.4.120

Abstract

Working with an interdisciplinary group of artists on the 2008 performance project Vertical City, Hansen and Barton, the project's dramaturge and director, drew inspiration from cognitive theories of memory and perception. They imagine how artistic questions from Vertical City can be further explored within an innovative model they call Research-Based Practice.

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