[Candrama] Reminder: CFP Dramaturgy working group at PSi Hamburg

[Pil Hansen]

Dear Candrama members,
The MAY 1 deadline to submit a one-pager in response to our working group questions is approaching. If you are attending PSi in Hamburg and have a professional or scholarly interest in dramaturgy then we would love to hear your thoughts.



In the 2017 session in Hamburg, we focus on dramaturgical attention to interactions, affect, and forms of agency.



There currently are dramaturgical and theoretical tools available to consider an overwhelmingly large amount of factors that inform agency and affect interaction. To offer a few examples these include:

-          Understandings of human cognition that enable us to make choices about how we direct attention, facilitate sensory and embodied perception, draw on autobiographical memory, and generate new memories.

-          Notions of presence that consider implicit memory of skills and new learning active parts of the interactions between collaborators that generate performance.

-          Approaches that take into account the agency of environments, objects, and processes that are not human-centred and how they act on the embodied perception of human beings as they perform and respond to performance.



With this context in mind, we invite the PSi community to join us in responding to the following questions:

1.    How do we act on this impossible-to-grasp-at-once overflow of factors when dramaturging or researching processes of creation, performance, and audience experience within and beyond the performing arts?

2.    Why do we look at some factors and not others and how do we choose positions?

3.    How do our choices actively shape the attention, relationships, and actions we take part in fostering?

4.    What are the ethical and political implications of such choices?

5.    Are we promoting or constituting new hierarchies or relationships between elements in the world?



Please forward your response (max. 500 words) and a short bio (max. 100 words) to pil.hansen at ucalgary.ca<mailto:pil.hansen at ucalgary.ca> by May 1, 2017.


The objective of this working group session is to map positions, generate possible answers, and articulate new questions. All members of the Performance Studies community are welcome to contribute in writing, during the session, or both. The working group is chaired by Pil Hansen and co-convened by Maaike Bleeker and Imanuel Schipper.

Please take a look at the call on the PSI website for more information: http://www.psi-web.org/2017/03/20/call-for-participation-psi-working-group-on-dramaturgy-and-performance-2017/

Warm regards,

Pil


Pil Hansen, PhD

Assistant Professor: Drama, Dance
Graduate Program Director: Drama
School of Creative and Performing Arts
University of Calgary

Honorary Adjunct Professor
Graduate Program in Dance
York University

Dramaturg
Vertical City / Kaeja d'Dance / Theatre Junction

Dance Dramaturgy: Modes of Agency. Awareness and Engagement<http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/Dance-Dramaturgy/?sf1=barcode&st1=9781137373212>

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