Dramaturgy at Work

Threading Through Experimental Dance, Performance and Theater

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Starting out from the author’s extensive practice as a dramaturg and educator, this book identifies and elucidates the varied selection of dramaturgical tools that have been used in the experimental practices of contemporary dance, theatre, and performance in Europe since the early 2000s.In order to trace the elements of dramaturgy that are at work in creation and production of a performance, the book focusses on how performances ‘work’ dramaturgically. It illuminates questions, work processes, situations and decision-making through stories in which the making of a performance is unravelled. Drawing on scenes across various contexts in Europe and beyond, with their self-organized platforms, magazines and workshops, the book ventriloquizes a multiplicity of voices, of more than forty dance- and theatre makers, performers, dramaturgs, and artists from other disciplines. It understands dramaturgy as larger, more informal and diffuse than the work of the dramaturg alone. Structured around four dramaturgical clusters—material, methods and procedures, operations, and social relations—the book proposes a non-linear framework through which creation processes can be examined. These clusters address material resistance, heuristic inquiry, audience-probing operations, and the dramatization of social relations in collaborative work.This is a fresh and enlightening book for anyone doing, discussing or thinking about dramaturgy, at university level, in professional practice or beyond.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2026-10-13
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieExpanded Dramaturgy
Antal sidor222
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032316222

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Introduction 1. We work with the material that resists us 2. “What do you do when you get in the studio?” On searching, having, and letting go of methods… 3. “Ideas are one thing, what happens is another” On dramaturgical operations 4. Dramatizing Relations and Positions: ‘We’s, ‘I’s, and ‘You’s at Work, Inside Out Conclusion: Empty Hands: For a Poetics of the Ongoing List of performances

"This book is an invitation to reflect upon the many ways you might recognise and disentangle the questions, images, atmospheres, problems, narratives, memories, relations, physicalities and presences that emerge in the process of making a performance, drawn from the long experience and practice of experimental dance and theatre dramaturge, theorist and performer Bojana Cvejić. It offers an essential resource for anyone interested in creating live performance."Jonathan Burrows, choreographer, Associate Professor at the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University, UK"Dramaturgy, for Bojana Cvejić, is not a craft but a skilful mode of thinking and acting that initiates and sustains an ever-ongoing process of creative inquiry—one that produces and resolves problems within the contexts of dance, performance, and theatre, and that never ends completely. In a distinctly Arendtian manner, she develops the concept of collaborative friendship as a genuinely political relationship, based on mutual trust and respect among equally responsible, independent yet connected individuals who, by sharing the world, continue to create community. With this book, Cvejić performs a practice-based theory that can be read as an experimental textbook or an unconventional lexicon, but also as a beautifully written story about dramaturgy at work."Agata Juniku, theatrologist, Associate Professor at the Department of Dramaturgy, Academy of Dramatic Art Zagreb, Croatia