Doing Dramaturgy: Thinking Through Practice

ISBN-13: 9783031083020 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Maaike Bleeker

Spis treści

1.     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

O autorze

Maaike Bleeker is Professor of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies at Utrecht University, Netherlands. As a dramaturg, she worked with theatre directors and choreographers on a wide variety of projects. Moving back and forth between theory and practice, she investigates thinking as material and embodied practice, and making theatre as an expression of such thinking.

Blurb

This 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.

Maaike Bleeker is Professor of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies at Utrecht University, Netherlands. As a dramaturg, she worked with theatre directors and choreographers on a wide variety of projects. Moving back and forth between theory and practice, she investigates thinking as material and embodied practice, and making theatre as an expression of such thinking.