ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes the term 'decentred' as an overarching notion from which to understand and view dance dramaturgies. Decentred is a term that describes moving dramaturgical considerations. The possibility of such physical and conceptual fluidity enables the dramaturgy to work with complexities. This has led to the consideration that dramaturgies can be open models in which the beginning point and the end point are always in a process of dynamic development. The decentred and rhizomatic relationships between the body and space, temporality and location, become, the drivers for uderstanding decentred dramaturgy. Similarly, rhizomatic choreography exhibits the fluidity of decentred bodies as they move through space; changing through formlessness to form, from pattern to anti-pattern. The dramaturgical elements in choreographies respond to nonlinear and non-narrative structures, moving through themes and concepts that are implicit within the movement surface. Contemporary dancers in the highly nomadic, fluid and globalized field of dance are artists who are multidimensional and work with multidimensionality.
