Research Areas

Central has active research clusters in the following areas. Academics use these clusters to share ideas, develop collaborative projects, and disseminate their findings:

  • Bodies and Culture
  • Documentation and Archiving
  • New Techniques in Contemporary Theatre
  • Sonic Dramaturgies
  • Space and Performance.

Areas of staff research at Central include the following:

  • actor training
  • dance
  • devising and creative processes
  • digital, telematic and mixed-media production
  • drama therapy
  • dramaturgy
  • light and sound design
  • movement direction
  • music(al) theatre
  • participatory performance
  • puppetry
  • regimes of the body
  • scenography
  • site-specific performance
  • social and political theatres
  • theatre history
  • theatre for development
  • verbatim and witness testimony
  • voice.