Dr. Ric Allsopp is a co-founder (with Richard Gough and Claire MacDonald) and joint editor of Performance Research, an international journal of contemporary performance (pub. Routledge, Taylor & Francis) and is currently Reader in Performance Research at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is a co-founder (with Scott deLahunta) of Writing Research Associates, an international partnership organizing, promoting and publishing contemporary performance projects including Migrations (Centre for Contemporary Culture, Barcelona, 2000); In the Event of Text (Utrecht, 1999) and The Connected Body? (Amsterdam, 1994) He has been involved in the innovative Performance Writing course at Dartington since its inception in 1994 and was Director of Writing from 2001-2004. Recent Performance Research projects include an ongoing collaboration with the Institute for Digital Arts and Technologies at the University of Plymouth developing Liquid Reader, a software interface for publishing cross-media performance work; and the publication of a joint issue of Performance Research ‘On Form’ (June 2005) with Frakcija (Zagreb) and Maska (Ljubljana).
