Creative Production and Management in the Performing Arts

This volume takes stock of the ways in which the regimes of artistic creation and production intersect, lending special attention to emergent discourses and work models of producing and managing theatre, dance, and performance – through the lenses of creative producers.

This book suggests that social protection failures, longstanding institutional shortcomings, and the dilemmas of social and environmental sustainability are pushing arts management and production modi operandi towards a review of its expansionist assumptions and managerial hyper-productivist processes. By documenting singular ‘counter-management’ experiences in Portugal, Belgium, France, and Brazil, this study makes a strong claim for a reassessment of the role of producers and art managers as reflective practitioners and as pivotal elements towards more sustainable artistic practices.

This study will be of great interest to students and scholars in theatre and performance studies, policymakers, and cultural professionals.

Chapter 2 and Conclusion of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

Vânia Rodrigues is a practitioner-researcher with a renowned track-record as an independent arts manager, curator, and consultant. She holds a PhD in Artistic Studies – Theater and Performative Studies from the University of Coimbra (2022) and a Master's degree in Cultural Policies and Cultural Management from the City University of London (2009). Currently, she is Invited Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra, and Principal Researcher at CEIS20 – Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Coimbra, where she co-leads the R&D project “Modes Production – Performing Arts in Transition”, and is a Principal Investigator of FCT-funded project GREENARTS, dedicated to analysing the ways in which the performing arts perceive and act upon the growing demands of social and environmental sustainability.