DRAMATURGY LAB

Exploring dramaturgy to perform by research

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 Dramaturgy LAB, Trailer Fontys Dance Academy, April 2017 8 week course
Facilitated by Anne-Marije van den Bersselaar Thanks to Nishant Bhola, Orfee Melsen, Fontys Dance Academy, Fontys University of Fine and Performing Arts. Concept Store for Artistic Strategies www.motionterritory.com


ABOUT THE DRAMATURGY LAB

Dramaturgy LAB is developed at Fontys Dance Academy by me in 2016 with the intention to combine theory class and studio classes together. In the LAB I challenge the students to create prototypes or frameworks for performance from instant ideas. They have to co-create from the dialogue they have, so learning how to have a qualititavie dialogue is an important pillar. You learn while doing and research is constantly necessary to develop different prototypes. By iterative design cycles they receive feedback and feedforward in order to make another step or to go into a different direction. They gain theory while doing and they translate theoretic concepts into action by playful exercises they define themselves. 

ABOUT THE DRAMATURGIC APPROACH

As a dramaturge in performing arts I'm trained in understanding (artistic) process systems, organization mechanisms, structures forms of communication, behavior analysis amongst others. Together with my intensive teaching background I gained awareness in personal needs, purposes, patterns and desires of different individuals in different institutional contexts. As programme designer, education developer I have built curricula from a conceptual frame with the didactics to innovate higher education into self-directed and student-oriented approaches. 

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