This Dramaturgy Database reflects our ongoing research of dramaturgy at Utrecht University. The database consists of (full text) interviews with Dutch and Flemish dramaturges, essays and reports on dramaturgy seminars and other documents that show how (Dutch) dramaturgy has developed in the past decennia.
A dramaturg at work (in orange boots).
Courtesy to dramaturgs Anna Wagner and Nele Beinborn (Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm), photo Gabriel Poblete
This picture perfectly captures the work of a dramaturg, which is strongly characterized by flexibility. As Bojana Kunst notes, ‘as a participant in the process, the dramaturg can occupy a variety of roles: those of practical dramaturg, producer, festival director, stage manager, writer, journalist, teacher, workshop leader, coach, lecturer, academic, artist, dancer, production network member, cultural politics advisor, mentor, friend, compass, memory, fellow traveller, mediator, psychologist. The complexity of the dramaturg’s profession – the affective ability to move between theoretical reflection and practical knowledge, to be an external eye and an involved participant at the same time – is often too hastily reduced to a sort of aesthetic elusiveness.’
Bojana Kunst, ‘The Economy of Proximity: Dramaturgical Work in Contemporary Dance.’ Performance Research 14.3 (September 2009): 81-88.
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Over dramaturgie – een gesprek met Marien Jongewaard
Interview met theatermaker Marien Jongewaard over zijn werkwijze en visie op dramaturgie, in relatie tot het werk van Truus Bronkhorst: Marien Jongewaard is theatermaker, geen dramaturg. Toch wil hij meewerken aan een gesprek over dramaturgie en de rol van dramaturgie in het werkproces. Marien Jongewaard maakte onder andere teksttheater met zijn gezelschap Nieuw West en maakte danstheatervoorstellingen met Truus Bronkhorst. Verder is hij lange tijd als docent verbonden geweest aan de Mimeschool van de Theaterschool Amsterdam. Een gesprek over dramaturgie vanuit ‘het andere perspectief’, de dramaturgie van de theatermaker.
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