ABSTRACT

This chapter will reflect on some of the complexities of transcultural performance making as manifested during the Deluge project, a long-term collaboration between Australian and Korean artists that aimed to combine aspects of butoh with p’ansori – a Korean form of epic narrative expressed through song and verse. Written from my multiple perspectives as director, performer, and researcher, this account draws on my analysis of Deluge’s development as a practice-led research project that investigated the nature of transculturally collaborative performance-making environments (Neideck 2016a).