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Creative Collaborations

Collaborations with creative practitioners are fundamental to the APGRD's research activities. We provide directors, performers, writers, choreographers, and composers a forum in which to come together with academics, students, and the public. Widening access to our research and our collections, these collaborations also exemplify our commitment to practice-based-research and dynamic knowledge exchange. The range of collaborative projects, residencies, and partnerships include:
 

Cultural Programme / TORCH funded projects

The APGRD collaborates in numerous projects funded by the University of Oxford's Cultural Programme and TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities), most notably:

 

  • Dancing with Apollo (2021)
  • Greek Tragedy: Masterclass on Film (2021)
  • Khameleon's Medea (2019)
  • Chorus in Action (2013-14)


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APGRD Team

Artists in Residence

The APGRD welcomes creative practitioners (choreographers, playwrights, directors, performers, designers) to engage with our research and our collections in order to develop new creative work and promote knowledge exchange by testing academic theories and offering practice-based opportunities for our graduate and undergraduate students.

Creative partnerships

We have officially partnered with a number of creative artists (APGRD Artist Associates) and the following theatre companies who have drawn on the APGRD’s resources and research in order to deepen their own creative engagements with performance texts and practices inspired by works from ancient Greece and Rome.

Creation Theatre

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Creation Theatre logo imposed over a screenshot of a digital performance showing a man, cradling the body of another man, in a building site

Oxford's Creation Theatre are an award-winning company specialising in site-responsive adaptations of classic stories and, in recent years, pioneering digital performances and the broadcast of live performance online. In 2024 they premiered a digital adaptation of Sophocles' Antigone, directed by Helen Eastman.

Out of Chaos

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Out of Chaos logo on top of production photograph of two female performers on a stage, recoiling

Out Of Chaos are a multi award-winning theatre company based in Hove (UK). Their work spans devised multilingual productions, reinterpretations of classical texts, and immersive experiences in various media. Out Of Chaos' engagement with ancient drama includes the Reading Greek Tragedy Online project, Delphi the Musical, Crossing the Sea, Unmythable, and Hippolytus.

Gardzienice

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Production photograph of a performer stood in darkness wearing a robe covered in masks

Gardzienice European Centre for Theatre Practices (Poland), founded in 1997 by Włodzimierz Staniewski, has produced five Greek/Roman productions: Metamorphoses, Elektra, Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia in Tauris, and Pythian Oratorio, and developed a new performance language, inspired by the ancient dramatic texts, musical fragments, and Greco-Roman iconography.