Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-263) and index.

Lay of the landscape : geographies, legacies, disciplines. Performance practice as research: perspectives from a small island / Baz Kershaw -- Working on the middle ground: a case-study of institutional inter-action about practice-as-research / Simon Jones -- Troubling performance: local, national and international / Richard Gough -- Using performance as a practice as research tool in Africa / Jane Plastow -- Rating the theatre practitioner: a South African case-study / Temple Hauptfleisch -- Performance as research in Australia: legitimating epistemologies / Brad Haseman -- Locating the artist-researcher: shifting sites of performance as research [PAR] in Canada / Laura Levin -- Social performance studies [in China]: between the real and the virtual / William Huizhu Sun & Faye Chunfang Fei -- Artistic research: from apartness to the umbrella concept at the Theatre Academy, Finland / Annette Arlander -- An actor prepares: performance as research [PAR] in the theatre / Ian Watson -- Making a dance/researching through movement / Susan Leigh Foster -- Performance as research [PAR] in North American ethnomusicology / Sandra Jean Graham -- The three configurations of studio-art PhDs / James Elkins -- Approaching knowledge, research, performance, and the arts / Arthur J. Sabatini -- Cartographies : terms for finding/charting the way(s). Action research / Kim Yasuda -- Disjunction: performing media space / Nick Kaye -- Embodiment / Peter Lichtenfels -- Environment / Baz Kershaw -- Lab/studio / Shannon Rose Riley -- Medium / Susan Kelly -- Oral history / Della Pollock -- Site-particular / Ilya Noé -- Situated knowledge / Lynette Hunter -- Mapping PAR in the US : communities, classrooms, stages, and holodecks. When Is art research? / Shannon Jackson -- The oral history project: practice-based research in theatre and performance / Lara D. Nielsen -- University gamelan ensembles as research / Henry Spiller -- Performative and pedagogical interventions: embodying whiteness as cultural critique / John T. Warren -- Open up the box: pedagogy, action research and art / Kim Yasuda -- Searching for Spalding Gray: PAR pedagogy, an undergraduate ensemble, and "The Edinburgh project" / Rosemary Malague -- Valuing performance/practice as academic knowledge / Lynette Hunter -- Performed research: audience as investigator / Marilyn Arsem -- Miss Translation USA goes to Cuba: performance as research toward a performative ethnography / Shannon Rose Riley -- Acting (on) our own discomforts: BLW's [Media] performance as research / Julie Wyman -- Theory/practice as research: explorations, questions and suggestions / Lynette Hunter -- Dramaturgy: conceptual understanding and the fickleness of process / Jon D. Rossini -- Collisions in time: 21st century actors explore Delsarte on the holodeck / Sharon Marie Carnicke -- Living on the edge: alternate controllers and the obstinate interface / Joseph Butch Rovan.