Spinning red yarn(s): Being Artist/Researcher/Educator Through Playbuilding as Qualitative Research

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dc.contributor.authorBishop, Kathy
dc.contributor.supervisorDobson, Warwick
dc.contributor.supervisorClover, Darlene E.
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-14T23:15:39Z
dc.date.available2015-01-14T23:15:39Z
dc.date.copyright2014en_US
dc.date.issued2015-01-14
dc.degree.departmentInterdisciplinary Graduate Programen_US
dc.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy Ph.D.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis research was simultaneously collective and individual. In this dissertation, my team and I inquired into what it means to undertake playbuilding as qualitative research and be a practitioner, specifically focusing on the roles of artist, researcher, and educator from an applied theatre graduate student perspective. I drew upon the methodological and theoretical frameworks of playbuilding as qualitative research and a/r/tography. Playbuilding as qualitative research offers creative methods for un/re/covering collective and affective ways of knowing. A/r/tography offers the opportunity to explore self and roles through art-making and reflexivity. For me, both are manifestations of the same creative impulse to make meaning and generate new understandings expressed through different perspectives and processes. This research consisted of a cohort of applied theatre graduate students who collectively explored and devised a play on what it means to be an artist/researcher/educator. The play, To Spin a Red Yarn: Enacting Artist/Researcher/Teacher stands as an artefact to the collectives’ generation, interpretation, and performance of research. In addition, I wrote an exegesis that spins my individual story within our collective. The exegesis, Behind the Curtain, extends the world of the play into the text by taking the reader on a dramatic journey through soliloquizing as dialogue. As a result of this study, I theorized a translated a/r/tographical framework into theatre- based language for the use by practitioners that is rooted in theatre practitioner praxis (theory and practice). This praxis-based study was intended to provide knowledge for artist-researchers, educators, and theatre-makers. This research offers artists/researchers/educators access to more stories, insights, and ideas about what it means to be a theatre-based artist/researcher/educator undertaking playbuilding as qualitative research. This research opens up rich possibilities that are commonplace to theatre-makers and performing artists on how different theatrical conventions could be used in playbuilding as qualitative research. For theatre-makers who are interested in combining theatre with academic research, it offers another paradigm to consider, expand, and interconnect the work that they do. Likewise, for a/r/tographers who are theatre-based, this research offers a way to conceive the work they do rooted in theatre-based language.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0465en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0516en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0727en_US
dc.description.proquestemailbishopk@uvic.caen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/5853
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectplaybuilding as qualitative researchen_US
dc.subjecta/r/tographyen_US
dc.subjectcreativityen_US
dc.subjectleadershipen_US
dc.subjectresearch-based theatreen_US
dc.subjecttheatre-based researchen_US
dc.subjectarts-based research methodologiesen_US
dc.titleSpinning red yarn(s): Being Artist/Researcher/Educator Through Playbuilding as Qualitative Researchen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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