celebrating dramaturgy

In the past two years or so, notions of performance took on different flights of creativity as the world accustomed itself to new vocabularies such as ‘social distancing,’ ‘lockdown,’ and/or ‘restricted capacity’. This panel presents how some Asian artists and dramaturgs are responding to new realities in their social, cultural and aesthetic communities.

 

These include new ways of thinking, working, and dramaturging performance-making and performance processes and presentations. Artists and dramaturgs then also learned new aesthetic vocabularies in re-framing ideas of liveness, audience and performer participation, and intersecting different performance mediums to accommodate new ways of experiencing performance and art.

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Curated and convened by LIM How Ngean.

Panel: Daniel KOK, CHENG Nien Yuan, Victoria CHIU & Carol BROWN.

 

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Bring your lunch and join us at our virtual Shared Table. In this informal moderated session you will have the chance to meet other attendees and to hear from different dramaturgs about what’s firing them up. Hot topic presenters: Suzanne Bell, Fiona Graham, Frey Kwa Hawking, and Luke Holbrook.

 

We’ll be facilitating the session through break-out rooms and open discussion.

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Facilitated by Miranda Laurence and Sarah Sigal.

The Virtual Bar is open! Head over to the Virtual Bar to meet other attendees, exchange reflections on the panels and talks, and find out more about the d’n.

 

The Virtual Bar is open to day ticket holders, and will be hosted by a d’n member during breaks between sessions.

In April 2020, inspired by the d'n Invisible Diaries blog, the LMDA asked its members to contribute short essays to boldly inspire, provoke, and explore theatre’s potential to transform through global crisis.

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Dramaturging the Phoenix challenged writers to imagine the “radical dramaturgy” that will lead theatre and performance into the next year, decade, and century. What ideal theatre-making will heal the communities, nations, and the globe during the long recovery ahead? How can dramaturgical imagination and practices shape the theatrical phoenix that will rise?

 

Curated and convened by Lynde Rosario.

Panel: Ken Cerniglia, David Geary, and Lourdes Maria Guzmán González.

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The Virtual Bar is open! Head over to the Virtual Bar to meet other attendees, exchange reflections on the panels and talks, and find out more about the d’n.

 

The Virtual Bar is open to day ticket holders, and will be hosted by a d’n member during breaks between sessions.

This panel will offer a robust discussion of some of the most pressing issues in theatre’s move towards a decolonised model, as outlined in the open letter ‘We need to talk about dramaturgy’ (circulated in March 2021).

 

The letter outlines both the existence of explicit racism in dramaturgical relationships, as well as the more nuanced, covert ways in which imbalances of power are created and maintained. This discussion will therefore explore developments in dramaturgy that can support a more authentic inclusive creative practice, to help the sector move consciously and confidently beyond the narratives, forms and epistemologies of the Eurocentric canon.

 

In considering their own experiences of best (and worst) practices in both institutional and freelance settings, this panel of theatre-makers and dramaturgs will address topics such as voice, appropriation and ‘risk’, and expand on their vision of what they’d like to see happen next in the industry.

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Convened by Lynette Goddard.

Panellists: Sudha Bhuchar, Samantha Ellis and Kane Husbands.

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The Virtual Bar is open! Head over to the Virtual Bar to meet other attendees, exchange reflections on the panels and talks, and find out more about the d’n.

 

The Virtual Bar is open to day ticket holders, and will be hosted by a d’n member during breaks between sessions.

In honour of Kenneth Tynan, who worked at the National Theatre as the UK’s first serving dramaturg, the Dramaturgs' Network presents the Kenneth Tynan Award (KTA) 2021 to celebrate excellence in dramaturgy.

 

Established in 2011, this biennial award honours theatre professionals who have made an outstanding contribution to dramaturgy in the UK in the past two years, regardless of their job title.

 

The award ceremony will feature a conversation on dramaturgy with the shortlisted dramaturgs, and – following the announcement – the winner of the Kenneth Tynan Award 2021 will deliver their Dramaturgy Paper, an inspirational speech on dramaturgy.

 

This year's KTA judging panel members are Oladipo Agboluaje, Hannah Khalil, Stewart Pringle, Sarah Sigal, Katalin Trencsényi and Hanna Slättne (head of the panel).

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Hosted by Hanna Slättne.

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