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The gold standard of research marches to the tune of science. Its harmonies are hard evidence, quantifiable data, objective facts, and findings that can be reproduced. Art, rooted in craft, the aesthetic, personal experience, and the embrace of contradiction, seems far removed from this technology of discovery.
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Grotowski’s “art as presentation” period marks the first of several phases in his career, see Jennifer Kumiega, The Theatre of Grotowski (London and New York: Methuen, 1985).
Jerzy Grotowski, Towards a Poor Theatre (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1968), 127–32.
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Watson, I. (2009). An Actor Prepares: Performance as Research (PAR) in the Theatre. In: Riley, S.R., Hunter, L. (eds) Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230244481_10
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