Dance Dramaturgy - Modes of Agency, Awareness and Engagement

Ten international dramaturg-scholars advance proposals that reset notions of agency in contemporary dance creation. Dramaturgy becomes driven by artistic inquiry, distributed among collaborating artists, embedded in improvisation tasks, or weaved through audience engagement, and the dramaturg becomes a facilitator of dramaturgical awareness.

Bojana Bauer, University Lille 3, France André Lepecki, New York University, USA Maaike Bleeker, Utrecht University Freya Vass-Rhee, University of Kent, UK Vida L. Midgelow, Middlesex University, UK Nanako Nakajima, Aichi University, Japan Katherine Profeta, Queens College, CUNY, USA Thomas F. DeFrantz, Duke University, USA Bonnie Brooks, Columbia College Chicago, USA