Interdisciplinary Performative Arts

The Cluster for Interdisciplinary Performative Arts (CIPA) produces practice-led research through a synergy of work across multiple performance domains: live and recorded performance, particularly theatre (acting and theatre-making), musical theatre and sound design, dance, visual arts, multimedia, film and digital arts, performance space, and installation. Based at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, where it provides a particular focus for research in Acting and Performing Arts, the cluster fosters interdisciplinary work across the Faculty of Arts, Design, and Media and with other Faculties at Birmingham City University. Furthermore, it links the academic community with the creative industries, research funders, and partner institutions at a regional, national and international level.

Within RBC, CIPA’s key aim is to support and develop a culture of practice-led research and research-led teaching across a broad range of performing art practices, and it is home to a vibrant community of postgraduate researchers who embrace the ethos of working across traditional disciplinary boundaries.

People (RBC)

Professor Aleksandar Dundjerovic (Director): digital media performance and performing arts, co-creation and collaborative practices
Dr Polly Hudson (Associate Director): process and creative practices in dance, ecosomatics
Dr Paola Botham: political theatre and performance
Glenn Noble: applied performance, community theatre
Professor Stephen Simms: interdisciplinary acting pedagogies
Professor Lamberto Coccioli: digital music and architecture
Dr Michael Fletcher: music improvisation and co-creation
Professor Michael Wolters: applied performance and composition in music

People (wider BCU)

Dr Soudabeh Ananisarab: theatre history, Iranian theatre
Professor David Roberts: historiography of theatre performance, dramaturgy and interdisciplinarity
Professor Kirsten Forkert: media activism and social movements
Professor Xavier Mendik: digital and screen studies, documentary making
Dr Jemma Browne: architecture and cinema, museum and representation of identity
Lucas Hughes: digital architecture, urban dressing, and the CGI and AI environment
Dr Eleni Kanira: drama in education
Dr Ashok Patel: mental health and drama performance
Dr Andrew Lennon: interdisciplinary arts and pedagogy, documentary theatre

External:

Professor Maria Sanchez: Professor of Architecture, Robert Gordon University, Scotland