New book on Dance Dramaturgy

[Pil Hansen]

Darcey Callison and I would like to draw your attention to our new collection in Palgrave’s New World Choreographies series
Dance Dramaturgy: Modes of Agency, Awareness and Engagement<Ten%20prominent%20dramaturg-scholars%20from%20three%20continents%20discuss%20complex%20dramaturgical%20approaches%20and%20advance%20proposals%20that%20reset%20notions%20of%20agency%20in%20contemporary%20dance%20creation.%20By%20drawing%20upon%20professional%20experience,%20cognitive%20and%20poststructuralist%20theory,%20and%20the%20work%20of%20international%20dance%20artists,%20they%20depart%20from%20tropes%20of%20anxiety%20in%20the%20existing%20discourse%20and%20present%20dramaturgy%20as%20a%20radically%20relational%20practice.>

The collection features contributions by Bojana Bauer, Andre Lepecki, Maaike Bleeker, Freya Vass-Rhee, Vida Midgelow, Pil Hansen, Katherine Profeta, Thomas DeFrantz, Nanako Nakajima, and Bonnie Brooks.

These ten prominent dramaturg-scholars discuss complex dramaturgical approaches from three continents and advance proposals that reset notions of agency in contemporary dance creation. By drawing upon professional experience, cognitive and poststructuralist theory, and the work of international dance artists, they depart from tropes of anxiety in the existing discourse and present dramaturgy as a radically relational practice. Seen through their lenses, dance dramaturgy is not the territory of a dramaturg with privileged knowledge about composition; it is driven by artistic inquiry, distributed among collaborating artists, embedded in improvisation tasks, or weaved through layers of audience engagement. In turn, the dramaturg becomes an engaged and skilful facilitator of dramaturgical awareness who traces artistic inquiries and ways of working across a broad spectrum of projects and artists.

This collection extends an invitation to complicate and advance key notions of dance dramaturgy and provides a rich source for dance and devising artists looking to examine and develop approaches to creation.

Comments, responses, reflections, ideas, critique are all very welcome!

Pil


Pil Hansen, PhD

Assistant Professor
Drama, Dance
School of Creative and Performing Arts
University of Calgary

Honorary Adjunct Professor
Graduate Program in Dance
York University

Dramaturg
Acts of Memory / Vertical City / Kaeja d’Dance




-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://artsservices.uwaterloo.ca/pipermail/candrama/attachments/20151030/e493e414/attachment.html>