ABSTRACT

Dramaturgies of Interweaving explores present-day dramaturgies that interweave performance cultures in the fields of theater, performance, dance, and other arts.

Merging strategies of audience engagement originating in different cultures, dramaturgies of interweaving are creative methods of theater and art-making that seek to address audiences across cultures, making them uniquely suitable for shaping people’s experiences of our entangled world. Presenting in-depth case studies from across the globe, spanning Australia, China, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam, the US, and the UK, this book investigates how dramaturgies of interweaving are conceived, applied, and received today. Featuring critical analyses by scholars—as well as workshop reports and artworks by renowned artists—this book examines dramaturgies of interweaving from multiple locations and perspectives, thus revealing their distinct complexities and immense potential.

Ideal for scholars, students, and practitioners of theater, performance, dramaturgy, and devising, Dramaturgies of Interweaving opens up an innovative perspective on today’s breathtaking plurality of dramaturgical practices of interweaving in theater, performance, dance, and other arts, such as curation and landscape design.

part I|34 pages

Sketching designs for unique encounters

chapter 1|18 pages

The Tjunta Trail

Cross-cultural dramaturgy in Australian place-making

chapter 2|14 pages

Diagrammatic dramaturgies

Navigations between theory, disfiguration and movement

part II|34 pages

Interlacing archival threads

chapter 3|17 pages

No(h) to Trio A

Interweaving dramaturgies for a performative exhibition of Yvonne Rainer's work

chapter 4|15 pages

Performance community in an age of reenactment

Takao Kawaguchi's About Kazuo Ohno and the conversation with ghosts

part III|38 pages

Unraveling productions

chapter 5|17 pages

Speaking Black

Tonya Pinkins's Mother Courage

chapter 6|19 pages

Catalyst and conduit

A call for the bicultural dramaturge

part |22 pages

Interlude

chapter A|3 pages

Durus Arabij/Arabic Lessons

chapter B|10 pages

Arabic Lessons

Stämme/שורשים/<a>جذور

chapter C|7 pages

Heiliger Franz/St. Francis

Notes from a playwright's perspective

part IV|42 pages

Entangling diverse audiences

chapter 7|19 pages

Encountering a “theater of (inter-)singularity”

Transformations and rejections of shifting institutional dramaturgies in contemporary German theater

chapter 8|21 pages

Yael Ronen

Devising dramaturgy for an interwoven world

part V|38 pages

Unfolding alternatives

chapter 10|19 pages

Dramaturgies of in-betweenness

Iranian theater and performance art since the 1970s

part VI|46 pages

Tailoring textual material

chapter 11|13 pages

Learning with broken words

Directing Plastic Rose by Shogo Ota with collaborative dramaturgy

chapter 12|17 pages

The emergence of co-dramaturgy

Arthur Miller, Satyajit Ray and Thomas Ostermeier encounter Ibsen

chapter |14 pages

Coda

Performers and time:The five stages of waiting