Doing Dramaturgy

Date: Saturday 24 June (11am – 6pm) and Sunday 25 June (10am – 6pm)

Dramaturgy helps artists to develop thinking and vision when creating work.

DOING DRAMATURGY is a two-day workshop, for choreographers, dramaturgs and makers interested in exploring the potential value of involving a dramaturg or dramaturgical practice in choreographic work.

Working with South East Dance Guest Dramaturg Martin Hargreaves, the two-day course will explore dramaturgy as a process and product-shaping practice. Artists will be challenged creatively and introduced to tools that can be used in the process of making work and in the framing and presentation of work for audiences.

Artists will work together with Martin to understand the creative possibilities and opportunities of ‘thinking dramaturgy’

"Shake(s) the ground under your feet…(which) is exactly what an independent artist needs to keep growing (and) developing”
2016 Participant

Biography
MARTIN HARGREAVES is a dramaturg, writer, and performer and his research practices range between boredom and hysteria. His primary interests are in the recent history of contemporary dance, queer performance arts, and camp misunderstandings. In 2003 he was awarded a PhD for his thesis entitled Performativity, Spectrality, Hysteria and from 2003 to 2013 he was the Editor of Dance Theatre Journal. He has worked recently with Yvonne Rainer, Boris Charmatz, Rahel Vonmoos, Pablo Bronstein and Nicola Conibere. Martin is also a Lecturer in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London and a Visiting Lecturer in Performative Practices at DOCH, Stockholm.

Doing Dramaturgy is produced by South East Dance and hosted by the Place. It is part of South East Dance’s pioneering Dramaturg in Residence programme, funded by Jerwood Charitable Foundation.