To achieve social and environmental sustainability, the performing arts' modes of production are in urgent need of significant transformation, as global crises have dramatically shown. The contributors to this volume challenge the predominant notions of professionalization that have underpinned theatre training practices and discuss the role of producers and arts managers towards changing problematic paradigms of authorship and leadership. They examine how regimes of artistic creation, production and management intersect in the field of theatre, dance and performance - and turn their attention to alternative ways of collective organization.

Fernando Matos Oliveira is an associate professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He is the programme director of the PhD in Artistic Studies and the director of Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente. In that joint capacity, he has been supporting creative work within the university environment, and running the »Practice as Research« programme since 2012, aimed at supporting doctoral projects with practical and experimental components in the field of the arts.