Elena Pérez
About
I am Associate Professor in Drama and Theatre at the Department of Art and Media Studies and currently leader of the bachelor and study programs. I have a bachelor in Literature from Complutense University Madrid, a masters in Theatre from Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, and a PhD in Drama and Theatre from NTNU and UCBerkeley, California. From 2016-2020 I took a break from academia and I worked as artistic director in an art gallery, Trondheim Kunstforening.
Teaching and supervising
I teach and supervise both bachelor and masterstudents. I teach subjects such as theatre history in both bachelor and master, dramaturgy, artistic research methods and sustainable theatre production. I teach and research through a combination of theory and practice.
Research interest
I have two lines of research. On the one side, my research spams the field of art & technology, relational and participatory art, art and games and play theory. I use an interdisiciplinary approach, where I look at the intersection of theatre with other fields such as media studies, visual art and game studies. My other line of research is sustainability and theatre in both research and practice. This means that I use theoretical perspectives from post humanism and new materialism and use them to challenge theatre studies, applied theatre and performance theory. It also means that I work very concretely with trying to turn theatre more sustainable, in a very hands on way, through my teaching.
Selected research projects
2020-2023: I have started together with Ass. Proff. Heli Aaltonen the pilot project "Turning the theatre productions in Drama and Theatre study programs into into sustainable theatre productions" where we are collaborating with leading figures in the theatre branch -such as Bærediktig scenekunst NU to turn our practical teaching into being sustainable. Here I am using the course Theatreproduction as a case for the research.
2020 I have been awarded funding from Norwegian Arts Council research program "Digital kultur, estetiske praksiser" to carry out a project with Associate Professor Ellen Foyn Brunn. The project, entitled "Emerging forms of digital theatre during the corona pandemic in Norway", investigates how the Norwegian proffessional thearew field put to use different digital tools to be able to continue to create work during the pandemic and how this was received by the audience.
In 2016 i defended my thesis "The Impact of Digital Media on Contemporary Performance". The project investigated how the performig arts incorporate video (multimedia/intermedial teater), internet (telematic/networked performance) and mobile phones (pervasive or distributed performance) to create and communicate meaning. I used practice-based research methodology where I created my own performance Chain Reaction and used as the basis to answer my theoretical questions.
Competencies
Publications
2020
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Hovik, Lise;
Pérez, Elena.
(2020)
Baby Becomings. Towards a Dramaturgy of Sympoietic Worlding.
Nordic Theatre Studies
Academic article
2019
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Pérez, Elena;
Efstathiou, Sophia;
Swierstra, Tsjalling.
(2019)
Getting our hands dirty with technology -The role of the performing arts in technological development.
Peripeti
Academic article
2016
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Pérez, Elena.
(2016)
The Impact of Digital Media on
Contemporary Performance:
How Digital Media Challenge Theatrical Conventions in
Multimedia Theatre, Telematic and Pervasive
Performance.
NTNU
Doctoral dissertation
2015
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Pérez, Elena.
(2015)
The Expansion of Theatrical Space and the Role of the Spectator.
Nordic Theatre Studies
Academic article
2014
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Pérez, Elena.
(2014)
Academic research and artistic practice in Chain Reaction: Methodology on Two Levels.
InFormation - Nordic Journal of Art and Research
Academic article
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Pérez, Elena.
(2014)
Experiential documentation in pervasive performance: the democratization of the archive.
International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media
Academic article
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Pérez, Elena.
(2014)
Meaningful connections: Exploring the uses of telematic technology in performance.
Liminalities - a journal of performance studies
Academic article
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Pérez, Elena.
(2014)
Fostering participation through ubiquitous media in pervasive performance.
Ubiquity. The journal of pervasive media
Academic article
2013
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Rodriguez, Maria Elena Perez;
Coteron, LS.
(2013)
Performance meets games: considering interaction strategies in game design.
Digital Creativity
Academic article
2008
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Perez Rodriguez, Maria Elena.
(2008)
The language of digital media in the theatre of Robert Lepage.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Journal publications
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Hovik, Lise;
Pérez, Elena.
(2020)
Baby Becomings. Towards a Dramaturgy of Sympoietic Worlding.
Nordic Theatre Studies
Academic article
-
Pérez, Elena;
Efstathiou, Sophia;
Swierstra, Tsjalling.
(2019)
Getting our hands dirty with technology -The role of the performing arts in technological development.
Peripeti
Academic article
-
Pérez, Elena.
(2015)
The Expansion of Theatrical Space and the Role of the Spectator.
Nordic Theatre Studies
Academic article
-
Pérez, Elena.
(2014)
Academic research and artistic practice in Chain Reaction: Methodology on Two Levels.
InFormation - Nordic Journal of Art and Research
Academic article
-
Pérez, Elena.
(2014)
Experiential documentation in pervasive performance: the democratization of the archive.
International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media
Academic article
-
Pérez, Elena.
(2014)
Meaningful connections: Exploring the uses of telematic technology in performance.
Liminalities - a journal of performance studies
Academic article
-
Pérez, Elena.
(2014)
Fostering participation through ubiquitous media in pervasive performance.
Ubiquity. The journal of pervasive media
Academic article
-
Rodriguez, Maria Elena Perez;
Coteron, LS.
(2013)
Performance meets games: considering interaction strategies in game design.
Digital Creativity
Academic article
Part of book/report
-
Perez Rodriguez, Maria Elena.
(2008)
The language of digital media in the theatre of Robert Lepage.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Report
-
Pérez, Elena.
(2016)
The Impact of Digital Media on
Contemporary Performance:
How Digital Media Challenge Theatrical Conventions in
Multimedia Theatre, Telematic and Pervasive
Performance.
NTNU
Doctoral dissertation