MP4: Practice-Based Performance Studies
About
This Working Group aims to support exchange and collaboration between scholars and artists in the CNY corridor region who are interested in the ways that performance practice enhances and may be enhanced by scholarly methodologies.
Open to New People
Active since: 2019
- Syracuse University
- Cornell University
- University of Rochester
- Colgate University
Collaborative Goals
Our working group brings together practitioners and scholars to collaboratively investigate practice-based research methodologies. We accomplish these collaborative goals in the following ways:
- Interfacing with practitioners and scholars in the field through workshops, seminars, performances, and creative projects/processes within our campuses;
- Sharing and creating research outputs at workshops, meetings, and writing/research retreats; and
- Facilitating practice-based research projects within the group.
Group Organizers





Activities
Eiko Otake - A Body in Places
Sept. 19, 2025, 6 p.m.
Eco-Macbeth: Nature Fights Back - Practice-based-Research
Sept. 11, 2025, 12:20 p.m.
Doing Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing, a "Staged" Reading
May 5, 2025, 7 p.m.
Group Outcomes
CITY Magazine profile
Ghost Factory and Hidden Stories: A Performance and Installation by Bridgman|Packer Dance