DRAMATURGY SEMINAR – CHAPTER V
Dansens Hus invites performers and creators within the dance and performing arts field to participate in a series of seminars on different forms of dramaturgical thinking. Over the course of two weekends, dramaturgs who operate actively in dance works will present their interests and methodological approaches within dance dramaturgy. In addition, they will visit selected dance artists in the studio, to put their thoughts and own practice in context with the dancers' projects and works. The seminar is organized together with Oslo National Academy of the Arts – Academy of Dance.
Chapter V:
by Eylül Fidan Akıncı
The Spider and the Crab, the sequel
13. + 14. april
This edition of the Dramaturgy Seminar threads the needle of a dramaturg's lateral moves: Eylül Fidan Akıncı will talk about her journey from academic research and freelance dramaturgy in Turkey and the United States to working as a resident dramaturg in production houses and as a teacher in higher education in the Netherlands. She will analyze the differences between participating in co-creation and mediating artistic processes with institutional ideology. What are the disappointments, fears, and failures surrounding the dramaturg's function today in a minefield of competing desires? This examination will provide an opportunity to revisit the reflections of the previous generation of Euro-American dramaturgs to see how much of their doubts and disclaimers about aesthetics, identity, knowledge, and authority still hold true. Finally, Eylul will discuss how her research and teaching on ecology and necropolitics bring political agency to her dramaturgy practice.
Harald Behari, along with dance artist and choreographer Ida Wigdel, will participate in a roundtable discussion on collective dramaturgy versus working with a designated dramaturg.
The seminar will culminate in a workshop to identify and flourish participants' lateral moves, egresses, webs, and burrows within their own practice.
Set-up:
DAY 1 – SEMINAR:
Lecture, conversations and workshop at Dansens Hus – 10:00-16:00
To register your participation, send an e-mail to billettsalg@dansenshus.com. Mark the email with: Dramaturgy seminar 4 or 5 (or both). The invitation to take part in the seminar extends to all who are interested in exploring dramaturgy as it relates to their own work. The admission is free, but please, sign up for the program.
DAG 2 – PRACTICUM:
Studio visits with 3 dance artists
In the second part of each chapter, we offer anyone who is currently in the process of creation, or planning one, and would like to engage in a conversation with the dramaturg, to book a studio visit. The dramaturg will engage with the artist around a concrete piece of work, material or project that the artist is working on. The session will last around one hour, and will take place in the studio or in another space, depending on whether it is a rehearsal or a conversation. You can meet the dramaturge in a studio at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO) if you do not have the opportunity or desire to be in your own studio. Please specify in the registration e-mail.
To book a visit from a dramaturg, send an e-mail to billettsalg@dansenshus.com. Mark the e-mail with:
Dramaturgy seminar PRACTICUM 4 or 5.
About the seminar:
Over the past two decades, various experimental practices in the field of theater, dance, performance art, and choreographic exhibition in a global context have converged on dramaturgy, an investigation of the interests and questions, capacities and working cultures and politics involved in the creation of a performance. This seminar will offer an encounter with an invited practicing dramaturg at work. Each part – or chapter – is comprised of two days: Day 1 is an open lecture at Dansens Hus, led by the invited speaker who, in dialogue with another dramaturg, will explore their current preoccupations in dramaturgy with regard to creation in dance and performance. Day 2 the invited speaker will visit dance artists currently working in Oslo and engages in a conversation around their work in a studio.
The seminar series is curated by Bojana Cvejić (SRB/BE/NO), freelance dramaturg and Professor of Dance Theory (KHiO), whose work also includes self-organizing collective platforms of self-education and experimental production.
Dr. Eylül Fidan Akıncı is a performance researcher, artist, and the house dramaturg of Theater a/d Rijn. She received her Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance at The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her writing has appeared in TDR: The Drama Review, Performance Research, and Etcetera Mag, as well as in the edited collections Performance in a Militarized Culture (2017) and The Methuen Drama Companion to Performance Art (2020). Akıncı has taught at Hunter College in City University of New York (CUNY), Baruch College (CUNY), Fontys Dance Academy Tilburg, Goethe University Frankfurt, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, and Amsterdam University of Arts. She pursues her own performance practice through collaborations with Taldans company. https://eylulfidanakinci.art/
The invitation to take part in the seminar extends to all who are interested in exploring dramaturgy as it relates to their own work. The admission is free, but please, sign up for the program.