Pure Research Archive

By Paulina Drohomyrecky and Shay Erlich –
Examining audience engagement with disability narratives and disability-led storytelling

By Lucy Coren & Rinchen Dolma –
Exploring what happens when we become displaced from the language and landscape that we’ve known

By Zahida Rahemtulla –
Examining what meaningful acting programs for racially diverse community actors over the age of 55 could look like

By Cole Lewis & Patrick Blenkarn –
Exploring the dramaturgical foundations of Unreal Engine and
C++ programming

By Anne Wessels –
Investigating how movement, gesture, and physical objects can help an audience understand the effects of stroke

By Christopher-Elizabeth Boyd –
Exploring giving the audience control of lighting and sound elements using familiar video game controllers

By Andrew Moodie –
Investigating bias in AI in a performance context

By Derek Chan & Alexis Diamond – Examining how to work across common creative languages

By Rachel Kauder-Nalebuff, Daimaah Mubashshir
& Evan Webber – Interrogating the casting process

By Kate Digby, Erika Batdorf, Alan Macy & Mark-David Hosale – Examining physiological response to performance

By Vanessa Porteous – The powerful impact of silence in the rehearsal hall

By Reneltta Arluk & Patti Flather – Exploring Indigenous languages in performance

By Siobhan Richardson & Jade Elliott McRae – Stage combat on stage & film

By Joanna Garfinkel & Natalie Schneck – Creating from unusual / non-narratives sources

By Kathryn Ricketts and Ellen Moffat – Performer & visual artist probe text, character, sound & story

By Christine Brubaker – Examining storytelling on stage and on camera

By Derek Kwan – Incorporating extreme physical movement into opera

By Gail Lotenberg – Making research more effective in a performance context.

By Nita Bowerman –
Can lived traumas be abstracted without losing emotional resonance?

By Maiko Bae Yamamoto and James Long –
A re-examination of how we use choreography

By Susanna Uchatius and James Coomber – Can the player and voice become one?

By Mary Walsh –
Can you stab people in the eyes with text?

By David Duclos – Exploring Additive Color Theory in action

By Ruth Howard – Performing the worst thing that has ever happened to someone

By Moynan King and Sherri Hay – When does ‘the public’ become an audience? Taking Pure Research out of the theatre…

By Erika Batdorf – Increasing the ability of dancers and physical actors to ‘move’ an audience

By Rebecca Singh and Nick Carpenter – What role can a chorus play in non-classical theatre?

By Camellia Koo –
Experimenting with a huge box as a barrier between performer and audience

By Cathy Nosaty, Laurel MacDonald & Philip Strong – Experiments with Ableton Live audio software

By Moynan King and Sherri Hay – Exploring the role of the audience in theatre, through costume and community

By Anne Barber & Brad Harley – Drawing on Christian Boltans’ work to create theatrical structure

By Nick Fraser & Justin Haynes – The theatre of musical performance when not playing an instrument

By Heather Nichol –
Exploring sound and resonance with objects

By Lois Brown and Elizabeth Pickard –
Experimenting with comic structures

By Guillaume Bernardi – Investigating the transition between speaking and singing

By Kate Hennig –
Exploring the performer’s connection with text

By Martin Julien – What exactly can sung music communicate in a theatrical context?