Gerry Harris
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Geraldine Mary "Gerry" Harris (born 1957)http://errol.oclc.org/laf/no2002-79222.html is Professor of Theatre Studies
at the University of Lancaster and director of Palatine, the Subject Centre for Dance, Drama and Music
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Her early research was in female performers in 19th Century French Popular Theatre specifically "Le Music Hall" and "Le Cafe-concert" but her interest in the politics of subjectivity and identity has subsequently expanded into the field of contemporary experimental performance
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She works as a devisor, writer, director and adapter both inside and outside of education, having written or adapted and directed touring shows for schools, taken shows to the Edinburgh Festival and occasionally contributed to the work of Insomniac Productions, a professional touring company, re-writing and re-directing a show "Clair De Luz" with this company for the Munich Spiel Art Festival 1995. She wrote the text for a short film "With the Light On", for Third Angel Independent Production Company.
Performance Studies
Performance studies have been growing as an academic field since the 1960s. Performance studies believe in the social act of Doing as it takes performance itself as the object of inquiry.The process of defining it becomes a practice in performance studies itself...
at the University of Lancaster and director of Palatine, the Subject Centre for Dance, Drama and Music
Subject Centre for Dance, Drama and Music
The Subject Centre for Dance, Drama and Music of the Higher Education Academy of the United Kingdom was established in 2000 to support and enhance learning and teaching in performing arts higher education across the UK. It is based at Lancaster University. The director is Professor Gerry...
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Her early research was in female performers in 19th Century French Popular Theatre specifically "Le Music Hall" and "Le Cafe-concert" but her interest in the politics of subjectivity and identity has subsequently expanded into the field of contemporary experimental performance
Experimental theatre
Experimental theatre is a general term for various movements in Western theatre that began in the late 19th century as a retraction against the dominant vent governing the writing and production of dramatical menstrophy, and age in particular. The term has shifted over time as the mainstream...
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She works as a devisor, writer, director and adapter both inside and outside of education, having written or adapted and directed touring shows for schools, taken shows to the Edinburgh Festival and occasionally contributed to the work of Insomniac Productions, a professional touring company, re-writing and re-directing a show "Clair De Luz" with this company for the Munich Spiel Art Festival 1995. She wrote the text for a short film "With the Light On", for Third Angel Independent Production Company.
Partial bibliography
- Staging Femininities (Manchester University Press, 1999)
- Beyond Representation (Manchester University Press, 2006)
- Feminist Futures co-editor (Palgrave MacMillan, 2006)