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    Picking up the bill: unravelling the truth and paying for the damage incurred
    (2018)
    This Performance as Research attempts to address the difficulties of having a constructive conversation around race and colonialism in the public square with a theatrical work. The research is creative and artistic in nature. Storytelling, ritual and ceremony are the primary performative devices used in the work. The researchers embarked on a process of writing and performing stories of mythical, symbolic and personal relevance, with the aim of investigating the effect upon themselves as researchers. Drawing from a range of mythologies, stories may evoke empathy and understanding in the listener, vital elements when entering conversation about emotionally charged topics. The aim, therefore is to propose a creative solution to the conversation – telling out stories through theatre may give them fuller expression and invite the listener to hear them with open ears, to have compassion, and to perhaps to reach for a place of greater understanding. The research consists of a performance, theorising around the principles that informed it, and reflection upon the performance once it had been staged. The findings take the form of questions around our willingness to share ourselves with others, the fear that evokes, and possible routes forward in the conversation. These will be addressed in a final performative submission to be made at a later date after conversation with witnesses of the original performance.
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    The performer as shaman: an auto ethnographic performance as research project
    (2015) Sakaria, Jacob Jacks
    This is an auto ethnographic project in which I explore how my personal and cultural narratives can be used for healing and transformation through a theatre making process. I look at performance as an object of making meaning while placing myself at the centre of the study as the subject of this research. During this process, I was looking at discovering a personal theatre making language with an aim of finding my voice. The outcome of my journey was an experimental creative project titled Eenganga which was performed in an alternative and nontraditional form in terms of space, text and the overall theatre making process. This study is an account of a journey that initially began as a performance ethnography project which collected cultural narratives of black urban traditional healers from Katutura, Windhoek, Namibia. There was an internal and an external data collection process. My body as a site of knowledge was the main research instrument.