Full Description
Ten international dramaturg-scholars advance proposals that reset notions of agency in contemporary dance creation. Dramaturgy becomes driven by artistic inquiry, distributed among collaborating artists, embedded in improvisation tasks, or weaved through audience engagement, and the dramaturg becomes a facilitator of dramaturgical awareness.
Contents
1. Introduction; Pil Hansen
PART I: AGENCY
2. Propensity: Pragmatics and Functions of Dramaturgy in Contemporary Dance; Bojana Bauer
3. Errancy as Work: Seven Strewn Notes for Dance Dramaturgy; André Lepecki
4. Thinking No-One's Thought; Maaike Bleeker
PART II: AWARENESS
5. Distributed Dramaturgies: Navigating with Boundary Objects; Freya Vass-Rhee
6. Improvisation Practices and Dramaturgical Consciousness: A workshop; Vida L. Midgelow
7. The Dramaturgy of Performance Generating Systems; Pil Hansen
PART III: ENGAGEMENT
8. Field Notes: In the Studio with Ralph Lemon and Donald Byrd; Katherine Profeta and Thomas F. DeFrantz
9. Dance Dramaturgy as a Process of Learning: koosil-ja's mech[a]OUTPUT; Nanako Nakajima with performing koosil-ja
10. Dance Presenting and Dramaturgy; Bonnie Brooks
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