Image: Conor Wylie, Victor Mariano, Anne-Sophie Woolnaugh, Sarah Chase in Pure Reseach 18 (Brian Quirt)

Pure Research Archive

Relay Aarhus - Cows at Earthwise Residency (Gloria Mok)

Viability Reviews – Col Cseke

Exploring themes of Language and Landscape, through the lens of Viability Reviews, using verbatim text and participatory forms

Contextualizing Disability Stories – Paulina Drohomyrecky and Shay Erlich

Examining audience engagement with disability narratives and disability-led storytelling

Between//Us – Lucy Coren and Rinchen Dolma

Exploring what happens when we become displaced from the language and landscape that we’ve known

Zahida Rahemtulla smling at the camera.

Racially Diverse Community Actors Over the Age of 55 – Zahida Rahemtulla

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

Screenshot of Unreal Engine platform

Dramaturgies of the Unreal – Cole Lewis, Patrick Blenkarn, Sam Ferguson (Guilty by Association)

Exploring the dramaturgical foundations of Unreal Engine and
C++ programming

Anne Wessels jumping and Andrea Nann taking notes.

The Getting Better Part: Gesture Experiments in Stroke and Story – Anne Wessels

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

Christopher Elizabeth Boyd and Gloria Mok testing out controllers.

Controlling the Stage – Christopher-Elizabeth Boyd

Exploring giving the audience control of lighting and sound elements using familiar video game controllers

Decoherence – Andrew Moodie

Investigating racial and gender bias in AI in a performance context

Mise en Place – Derek Chan and Alexis Diamond

Examining how to work across common creative languages

Rehearsal Hall with chairs stacked high and a few mannequins

Casting Subjects – Rachel Kauder-Nalebuff, Daimaah Mubashshir and Evan Webber

Interrogating the casting process

The outside of a white brick building. It says Studio Theatre in front of it

Kinesthetic Performance – Kate Digby, Erika Batdorf, Alan Macy & Mark-David Hosale

Examining physiological response to performance

Group of people sitting around a table in a rehearsal hall.

Don’t Spill the Sacrament – Vanessa Porteous

The powerful impact of silence in the rehearsal hall

Buddy Wesley, Patti Flather, and Reneltta Arluk sitting around a U-shaped table.

(Not) Our Mother Tongue – Reneltta Arluk and Patti Flather

Exploring Indigenous languages in performance

A small group gathered, rehearsing with a red background. There are a few monitors, which are showing various angles of those rehearsing.

Action in Two Media – Siobhan Richardson and Jade Elliott McRae

Stage combat on stage & film

Two images next to each other of Natalie Schneck. One, seated with their legs out in front of them, the other they are laying on their back with one leg up.

Discovering Physical Narrative – Joanna Garfinkel and Natalie Schneck

Creating from unusual / non-narratives sources

Two people in a rehearsal room, one is in motion the other is not.

Book Table Chair – Kathryn Ricketts and Ellen Moffat

Performer & visual artist probe text, character, sound & story

Close up of a camera, with the head of the operator. Someone is in front of the camera, that person is on the screen of the camera.

Acting for Theatre & Camera – Christine Brubaker

Examining storytelling on stage and on camera

The Unfettered Singer – Derek Kwan

Incorporating extreme physical movement into opera

Dialogue Through Dance – Gail Lotenberg

Making research more effective in a performance context

Life Abstracted – Nita Bowerman

Can lived traumas be abstracted without losing emotional resonance?

Physicality and Text – Maiko Bae Yamamoto and James Long (Theatre Replacement)

A re-examination of how we use choreography

Sprechgesang: Theatre’s Forgotten Instrument – Susanna Uchatius and James Coomber (Theatre Terrific)

Can the player and voice become one?

Voicing Pain and Suffering – Mary Walsh

Can you stab people in the eyes with text?

The Uses of Additive Light Blending – David Duclos

Exploring Additive Color Theory in action

The Worst Thing – Ruth Howard

Performing the worst thing that has ever happened to someone

The Unsuspecting Audience – Moynan King and Sherri Hay

When does ‘the public’ become an audience? Taking Pure Research out of the theatre…

Kinesthetic Transference in Performance – Erika Batdorf

Increasing the ability of dancers and physical actors to ‘move’ an audience

The Choral Revolution – Rebecca Singh and Nick Carpenter

What role can a chorus play in non-classical theatre?

The Box – Camellia Koo

Experimenting with a huge box as a barrier between performer and audience

Sound Manipulation – Cathy Nosaty, Laurel MacDonald and Philip Strong

Experiments with Ableton Live audio software

The Invitation – Moynan King and Sherri Hay

Exploring the role of the audience in theatre, through costume and community

Anne Barber & Brad Harley

Theatre of Illumination – Anne Barber and Brad Harley

Drawing on Christian Boltans’ work to create theatrical structure

Nick Fraser drummer

Theatre in Music – Nick Fraser and Justin Haynes

The theatre of musical performance when not playing an instrument

Hello! Sound, Voice & Connection – Heather Nichol

Exploring sound and resonance with objects

Lois Brown (Teri Snelgrove)

On Comedy – Lois Brown and Elizabeth Pickard

Experimenting with comic structures

The Land Between Speaking & Singing – Guillaume Bernardi

Investigating the transition between speaking and singing

Beneath the Poetry: Magic Not Meaning – Kate Hennig

Exploring the performer’s connection with text

Voice, Music and Narrative – Martin Julien

What exactly can sung music communicate in a theatrical context?