Devising Performance (Heddon Deirdre, and Jane Milling, 2006)

7. Contemporary Devising and Postmodern Performance P. 190 - 220

• P.192 In contrast, a layered, fragmented, and non-linear 'text', one specifically courting various perspectives and viewpoints, perhaps lends itself more readily to the group devising process. Or, to put this the other way round, a group devising process is more likely to engender (產生) a performance that has multiple perspectives, that does not promote one, authoritative, 'version' or interpretation, and that may reflect the complexities of contemporary experience and the variety of narratives that constantly intersect with, inform, and in very real ways, construct our lives.
• P.198 LeCompte combined chance and formal procedures in this example as a means to generate the work within limits. However, somewhat paradoxically many practitioners, whilst insisting on the play of chance and randomness, of 'foundness' and just 'using what comes up', simultaneously apply the term 'intuition, employing phrases such as 'waiting for things to happen' or 'knowing when something feels right' to explain processes of devising.
• P.198 Chance or randomness are combined with some unquantifiable, yet persistent, sense of 'appropriateness'. Though the work does not exist and is unknown in advance of its making, there is nevertheless an assumption that there is a work to be 'discovered' or 'recongnised'. The pattern fits when it fits the pattern.

Heddon, Deirdre, and Jane Milling. Devising Performance: A Critical History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.