Dramaturgy seminar: From Position to Perspective: Feminist Thinking in Dramaturgy
Dansens Hus, in collaboration with Oslo National Academy of the Arts – department of dance, invites performers and creators within the dance and performing arts field to participate in seminars on different forms of dramaturgical thinking.
DAY 1 – the seminar:
Saturday 04. October 2025
Time: 10:00-16:00
Language: English
Registration:
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About:
This seminar invites participants to explore feminist dramaturgy as a practice of perspective — rooted in awareness, critical reflection, and the capacity to imagine otherwise. Together, we will ask how feminist thinking can shape our ways of making, thinking, and collaborating in performance. What does it mean to do dramaturgy from a feminist or queer-feminist perspective? Why now, for whom, and to what end?
We will look at dramaturgy on three interconnected levels: as a question of production, as a way of working, and as an aesthetic practice. Rather than offering fixed answers, the seminar opens a space for inquiry. What does feminist dramaturgy demand of us — as makers, thinkers, collaborators? How do we think from within entanglement, contradiction, and interdependence?
In the first part of the day, Nora Frizzi Auerbach and Ana Dubljević will each share aspects of their dramaturgical practice, focusing on how feminist and queer-feminist thinking informs their approaches. This will be followed by a conversation with two invited guests, opening space for collective reflection.
The second part of the day consists of a practical workshop. Through a series of guided tasks, participants will examine their own ways of working and asking how feminist perspectives might shift dramaturgical choices.
Accessibility information:
Step-free access space with accessible toilet
Information about accessibility measures will be announced.
Please let us know of any access requirements in advance.
For accessibility information, please contact:
Jo Even Bjørke
+47 932 47 111
joeven@dansenshus.com
Address:
Dansens Hus
Vulkan 1
0182 Oslo
DAY 2 – practicum
Sunday 5. October 2025
Individual timeslots
To register for a session discussing a process, project, an idea or a performance with Nora Frizzi Auerbach or Ana Dubljević, please send an e-mail to billettsalg@dansenshus.com
Mark the e-mail with PRACTICUM.
Please let us know of any access requirements in advance and if you will bring your own assistant or translator.
Address
Oslo National Academy of the Arts – studio 12, building 3.4
Fossveien 24,
0551 Oslo
Bios:
Nora Frizzi Auerbach is a dramaturg, theatre maker, and author whose work explores the intersection of feminist theory, dramaturgy, memory practices, and the relationship between dance and theatre. She is particularly interested in theatre as a space for reflection, dreaming, and experimentation. Nora holds an MA in Comparative Dramaturgy and Performance Research from Goethe University Frankfurt and the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO). For several years, she has also worked as a researcher and jurist focusing on anti-discrimination policies in cultural institutions.
Ana Dubljević is an artist from Belgrade who works in the fields of dance, choreography, and dramaturgy. She completed her master's degree in choreography and performance in 2018 at the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies in Giessen, Germany and dramaturgy of performance at Zagreb Academy of Dramatic Arts. In 2021, she published the book "Feminist Pornscapes, on Dramaturgical Thinking in Dance and Performance Practice" and currently leads workshops based on that research. She works as stage movement director fortheater plays, as well as a mentor in Belgrade and other dance scenes in Europe. Her latest choreographic work "Sparked", premiered at the Bitef Theater in late 2024 and will continue its life at regional and European festivals. Ana is passionate about erotic poetry and hopes for a planetary general strike.
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. She is author of several books ranging from performance studies, dance dramaturgy and political theory (among which Choreographing Problems, 2015, and Toward a Transindividual Self, co-written with Ana Vujanović).