What have we done with the bodies? Bodyliness in drama education research

Abstract

How the body appears, is theorised and researched in drama education and applied drama is what concerns me here.In the wider world of theory and research into drama and performance, the body features as component of meaning-making in theory and analysis (see e.g., Counsell and Wolf, 2001, Conroy, 2010).Yet, although the body figures in drama education research, my argument is that theoretical and methodological approaches to the socially organised, dramatic and dramatized body remain ripe for development, particularly in looking for the ways in which the presence and co-presence of bodies make meaning in drama.