Dramaturgy in Motion: At Work on Dance and Movement Performance - Couverture souple

Profeta, Katherine

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0299305945 ISBN 13 : 9780299305949

Editeur : University of Wisconsin Press, 2015

Synopsis

Dramaturgy in Motion innovatively examines the work of the dramaturg in contemporary dance and movement performance. Katherine Profeta, a working dramaturg for more than fifteen years, shifts the focus from asking "Who is the dramaturg?" to "What does the dramaturg think about?"
Profeta explores five arenas for the dramaturg's attention-text and language, research, audience, movement, and interculturalism. Drawing on her extended collaboration with choreographer and visual artist Ralph Lemon, she grounds her thinking in actual rehearsal-room examples and situates practice within theoretical discourse about contemporary dramaturgy. Moving between theory and practice, word and movement, question and answer until these distinctions blur, she develops the foundational concept of dramaturgical labor as a quality of motion.
Dramaturgy in Motion will be invaluable to practitioners and scholars interested in the processes of creating contemporary dance and movement performance-particularly artists wondering what it might be like to collaborate with a dramaturg and dramaturgs wondering what it might be like to collaborate on movement performance. The book will also appeal to those intrigued by the work of Lemon and his collaborators, to which Profeta turns repeatedly to unfold the thorny questions and rich benefits of dramaturgical labor.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Katherine Profeta is a professor in the Practice of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. She has been the dramaturg for choreographer and visual artist Ralph Lemon since 1997, as well as for numerous other choreographers and theater companies. She is also a founding member and choreographer with the theater company Elevator Repair Service.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Wisconsin Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0299305945
• ISBN 13: 9780299305949
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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