Research

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Theatre Aotearoa is for researching New Zealand live performance – and for sharing our research.

Researchers use Theatre Aotearoa for different kinds of research, including:

  • Large-scale surveys by genre, region or theme
  • Projects focused on artists, companies, venues or works
  • Performance as research and creative development

Theatre Aotearoa supports researchers at each stage of the process:

  • Planning - deciding what to research - extending the horizon - research proposals and funding applications
  • Process - finding out who has done what - exploring coverage of existing data - literature review and bibliography
  • Content - creating, gathering and doing the research - collecting new data - curation and analysis
  • Output - sharing research outcomes, presentations and publications - deposit data and resources as research outcomes

Researchers work with Theatre Aotearoa in a variety of ways:

  • Adding new data - extending coverage to new areas, filling in gaps, importing data sets
  • Curating records - enriching existing records, enhancing quality, thickening description
  • Documenting performance - depositing data, archiving resources, preserving the traces
  • Analysing - asking questions, requesting reports, analysing results
  • Exploring - visualising data as maps and networks, learning new analytical techniques
  • Sharing - data exchange, embedding in web pages, digital publishing

Theatre Aotearoa provides information, support and advice to researchers working at all levels - honours and postgraduate, early career researchers and academics, and those working in the arts industry, government agencies and collections sector.

If you have used the resources of Theatre Aotearoa, we remind you to acknowledge Theatre Aotearoa’s copyright as you would any other secondary source. If you download this data to create your own visualisations or graphics we request that you clearly note that the data has been harvested from Theatre Aotearoa. For traditional publications, a sample acknowledgement is: This article/book/chapter/entry acknowledges Theatre Aotearoa: © Theatre Aotearoa and contributors, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. The Theatre Aotearoa citation page provides more detailed examples of how to cite Theatre Aotearoa records.

Researchers working on New Zealand live performance are encouraged to contact Theatre Aotearoa to discuss their interests.