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Shaping Dance Improvisatory Processes Intertwined with Actual and Virtual Bodies: Exploring Sculptural Qualities Within Motion Capture Environments (2024)
Thesis

This practice-as-research investigates embodied dance improvisatory approaches within motion capture environments through a shaping process I call Sculptural Qualities. Sculptural Qualities, a term developed during this research, are processual and r... Read More about Shaping Dance Improvisatory Processes Intertwined with Actual and Virtual Bodies: Exploring Sculptural Qualities Within Motion Capture Environments.

Staging Queer Spirituality: New perspectives on self-identity through Minstrelsy as multiplastic archetypal persona-performance (2024)
Thesis

My thesis is based upon the findings from my post-graduate practice-as-research project.

I will propose a re-envisioning of the practice of Minstrelsy, not only as a traditional form of storytelling entertainment with its roots in ancient history... Read More about Staging Queer Spirituality: New perspectives on self-identity through Minstrelsy as multiplastic archetypal persona-performance.

The performance of place and comedy explored through postdramatic and popular forms with reference to the staging of 'A Good Neet Aht' (2020)
Thesis
Green, P. The performance of place and comedy explored through postdramatic and popular forms with reference to the staging of 'A Good Neet Aht'. (Thesis). University of Salford

The journey begins with a mapping of the terrain of praxis in a discussion of autoethnography, popular performance and the postdramatic. A parallel discussion on place and class draws on the tradition of Cultural Studies. These provide the framework... Read More about The performance of place and comedy explored through postdramatic and popular forms with reference to the staging of 'A Good Neet Aht'.

A psychoanalytical approach to Harold Pinter’s plays : Old Times, The Homecoming and The Birthday Party
Thesis
Old Times, The Homecoming and The Birthday Party. (Thesis). University of Salford

This PhD thesis presents an analysis of a number of Harold Pinter’s plays, by using a Freudian psychoanalytical approach aligned with a close reading of the following works: Old Times (1971), The Homecoming (1965) and The Birthday Party (1957). Furth... Read More about A psychoanalytical approach to Harold Pinter’s plays : Old Times, The Homecoming and The Birthday Party.