'Performing the Interview : Embodied Reflections & Data-Dramas' book launch

The Centre for Arts and Social Transformation (CAST) warmly invites you to the launch of Dr Jane Luton's book 'Performing the Interview: Embodied Reflections and Data-Dramas'.

This book articulates a new method for performing the research interview, transforming it into a living performance space. Submitting the first Creative Practice PhD in Education at the University of Auckland, Aotearoa, New Zealand, Luton explores how researcher-in-role and theatrically framed sites invite participants to co-create data through enactment, respeaking, and devising - culminating in the creation of Data-Dramas. Generating stories of melancholy and resilience with six international drama educators, Luton reveals how creative practice doctoral research can foster wellbeing, deepen artistic identity, and capture rich, embodied knowledge with relevance far beyond the arts.

The book is available HERE

Additional Information:It is important to acknowledge and celebrate the role of Professor Peter O'Connor (CAST's Founding Director) in the original research as he guided the first creative practice doctorate and participated by embodying stories of drama education as a named participant.

The research production was attended by two examiners and the Dean (at the time) of the Faculty of Education, Graeme Aitken who wrote in the Communication Matters Newsletter July 25th, 2014, that it had made him "reflect on how we might make drama, and the arts, more central in our work".

Jane Luton was the first place prize winner of the Exposure 2013 Postgraduate Research exposition Variety Showcase organised by The Postgraduate Students' Association at The School of Graduate Studies, University of Auckland. The first winner from the Faculty of Education at UoA.