The current site is at http://www.mdx.ac.uk// while the designer Roberto Battista's site is at http://www.robat.scl.net
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What is
is the Centre for Research into Creation in the Performing Arts established in 1999, and based at Middlesex University. is a multi-disciplinary, artist-driven research centre which seeks to bridge the gap between professional performing arts practitioners and the university sector.
Unlike some other university-based research centres, is centrally concerned with the artist at work, and with the ways in which the working artist, under the usual pressures of the arts market-place, can be enabled:
- to reflect on her or his own creative processes,
- to document these processes, and
- to make these materials, musings and critical reflections available wto the wider arts communities and the university.
How does it work?
Currently six artists with significant track records, ranging across performing-arts disciplines, are supported by the centre as Research Associates. enables them to meet at regular intervals, record their dialogues, explore different modes of self-presentation, and to share their experiences, skills and knowledge-bases. At the same time, the Research Associates continue to develop their portfolios of professional creative practice.
aims to provide laboratory conditions to practitioners who might more normally work alone. The intention is to articulate, exchange and share processes in play when new work is being created.
The centre facilitates discussion and the exchange of ideas and information between the associate creators. It also explores new technologies in order to identify opportunities for wider interactions. Working with them is a Senior Researcher with substantial academic experience linked to performing arts training and theorisation, enabling discussion between the associates and contributing - through seminars, conferences and publication - to the wider dissemination of materials produced and archived.
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