HOOVERVILLE RESEARCH LIBRARY

To assist in the cultivation of non-traditional performance ideas, Hooverville has established a system for identifying, collecting, and storing information on innovative performance practices, which will include Hooverville’s own content delivery experiments as well as those of other companies and individuals.  Hooverville’s directors and associates have begun a series of interviews with performers, directors, producers, promoters, designers, teachers and community leaders, which will form the basis of an extensive scholarly repository of the methods used in creating performing arts events that transcend established modes of performance.

As we set about building this collection of information, we will begin to make these case-studies available to other companies that wish to promote innovation and experimentation.  Exploring  everything from the intergration of digital technology and live performance to producing events for underserved communities to new methods of creating revenue for the performing arts, the Library might be thought of as this Hooverville’s central bank, trading on knowledge and innovation rather than currency.

This is a collaborative effort that will require contibutions from a great number of the type of people who study and think about these things, and we welcome your participation.  Please contact us if you come across a company or individual whose work rides the rails to parts unknown, way out past the border.