Description
Book SynopsisThis book explores how doing dramaturgy is informed by today’s highly diverse field of theatre, dance and performance. It does so in dialogue with fourteen performances and their makers, tracing the thinking-through-practice that underlies these creations. The first part of the book looks at how dramaturgs participate in practices of thinking-making and introduces a dramaturgical mode of looking at performances and the processes in which they are created. The second part of the book discusses the performances and creative processes of Manuela Infante, Julian Hetzel, Ivo van Hove, Anouk van Dijk, Falk Richter, Milo Rau, Kris Verdonck, Death Centre, Hotel Modern, Jr.cE.sA.r , Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten, Dries Verhoeven, the LGB Society of Mind, Sanja Mitrović, and Amanda Piña. Showing how ways of making and ways of doing dramaturgy mutually inform each other, this book is an essential resource for students and others aspiring to develop their own dramaturgical practice.
Table of Contents1. Introduction
Part I
2. Thinking Through Practice
3. A Dramaturgical Mode of Looking
4. Doing Dramaturgy
Part II
5. The Ghent Altarpiece - Milo Rau
6. Chekhov’s First Play – Dead Center
7. Dear Winnie - Jr.cE.sA.r
8. Complexity of Belonging – Anouk van Dijk and Falk Richter
9. Lazarus – Ivo van Hove
10. Le Corps du Ballet – EG|PC
11. Estado Vegetal – Manuela Infante
12. Conversations (at the end of the world) – Kris Verdonck
13. Phobiarama – Dries Verhoeven
14. All Inclusive – Julian Hetzel
15. WAR (Ein Kriegstanz) – Amanda Pina
16. Kamp – Hotel Modern
17. SPEAK! – Sanja Mitrovic
18. I am LGB – The LGB Society of Mind
19. Epilogue
