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Work : Performance work by Adrian Jones with Cyrff Ystwyth in which Ames is principal research investigator and director. This output works through new approaches to choreography and contributes to new thinking and paradigms of work in devising theatre and in developing and expanding understandings of forms of agricultural life.

Performance work by Adrian Jones with Cyrff Ystwyth in Aberystwyth University,Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies June 10th and 11th 2011, in which Ames is principal research investigator and director. Research questions: The research continues to interrogate aesthetics of theatrical performance through the appearance of disabled and untrained performers in work that is created by the choreographer with learning disabilities. Adrian Jones worked alongside Ames who acted as Principal Investigator and director. It focusses on the unusual presentation of agricultural life in new performance and asks: how may this personal performance piece contribute to understandings of a way of life, which is often perceived by those outside of it as unimportant? The investigator is searching for a new expression of the rural that does not confirm the sterotypical and asks: if the artistic products of this disabled author mark these experiences as particular and valid in the field of performance? Significant features of process, and reflection: This piece of practice as research was the third work made by Jones. Continuing the focus of the enquiry, the researcher interrogates the aesthetics of untrained and unusual performing bodies. The work presents choreographic presentation that does not confirm the more usual urban contexts of choreographic exploration. The research asserts the specifics of art made by people in these communities, rather than the paradigm of the provision of art activities as "beneficial". This enquiry foregrounds disabled and non-virtuosic bodies in performance and posits the precise 'inability' to move as a trained performer as eloquent. The deduction of the enquiry is that this work might nevertheless communicate with performance audiences who seek performance rather than engage only with a specific interest group.