Doing Dramaturgy

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.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Thinking Through Practice.- 3. A Dramaturgical Mode of Looking.- 4.  Doing Dramaturgy.- 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.