Total Theatre Explores: Interviews with Women Practitioners of Physical and Visual Performance
Total Theatre Explores is a research and development project, hosted by
Total Theatre Network, which specifically addresses gender and performance.
In this section of the Total Theatre Explores website, the main focus of research
is the body in relation to gender in performance. Throughout 2004, Total Theatre
Explores project officer Becca Gill interviewed a number of established female
performance practitioners working in the fields of physical and visual theatre,
interdisciplinary performance, dance theatre and live art.
Consultations (in person and by email) targeted women of different generations
and cultural backgrounds, interviewing them about aspects of their practice.
Questions asked included:
- How do you define/describe your work?
- What are your main areas of inspiration and do they change with each project?
- Does gender matter in performance?
- Does your body determine the work you make or the way in which you make it?
- Would you consider your artistic priorities to be different to those of men?
- How would you define feminism? Would you call yourself a feminist and what does that term mean in relation to yourself and your work?
- Do you think that theatre/performance can effect social change?
- How would you define the effect of the funding system on women's performance work?
- What do you see as the biggest problem facing women in performance today?
- What from your perspective is the future for women within performance?
Click on the links on the right to read each interview.