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    WAAPA's Performance Capture Studio is a collaborative, experimental, cross-disciplinary performance space.

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Projects

WAAPA research is committed to supporting engagement activities that lead to research with real world impact. We extend artistic form, develop new technologies and systems, learn about our past, present and future, and collaborate with community and industry. We aim to produce research to inform and advocate to government.

Current project areas

  • Digitisation of vulnerable cultural heritage;
  • experimentations across performance forms jazz, contemporary performance and dance;
  • investigating dancer and circus artist health and wellbeing through the development of tools and resources;
  • the global history of the Japanese dance form called “butoh”, and what this tells us about national identity/identities;
  • the creation of transdisciplinary collaborations to forge place-based creative responses to climate change;
  • seeking new opportunities for performance involving emerging creative technologies which enable real time digital animation of human movement as well as exploring new performance practices and storytelling opportunities to create immersive digital experiences;
  • identifying medical problems faced by saxophonists;
  • intimacy and consent practice and direction as well as appreciative enquiry;
  • inclusive practice for artists with disability;
  • choreographic connections to country;
  • investigating ways costume design and realisation that rejects the idealisation of specific body types;
  • exploring aspects of aesthetic context and historical performance practice in Western classical music;
  • investigating how piano music was played in the past might influence the way we play it now using the instruments it was written; and
  • building an open performance archive of queer hopes, dreams, and notions of a good life in contemporary Australia.

Past projects

Scholarships

There are a variety of scholarships on offer for postgraduate research students; find out more at ECU Scholarships.

More information

For more information about Higher Degree by Research, please contact Associate Professor Jonathan W. Marshall.

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