Improvisation practices and dramaturgical consciousness: a workshop
Book chapter
Midgelow, V. 2015. Improvisation practices and dramaturgical consciousness: a workshop. in: Callison, D. and Hansen, P. (ed.) Dance Dramaturgy: Modes of Agency, Awareness and Engagement USA Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 106-123
Chapter title | Improvisation practices and dramaturgical consciousness: a workshop |
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Authors | Midgelow, V. |
Abstract | Re-presenting on the page a dance workshop, this article draws attention to what I describe as a dramaturgical consciousness within improvised dance performance. Developing this particular consciousness entails a reconfiguration of the dramaturgical and the improvisational, which allows us to understand them both as embodied practices that play with memory. The workshop takes the participant/reader through a series of activities designed to activate a sensibility through which action and intellect, inside and outside, and past and present are productively blurred. As a practical workshop, it requires the purposeful activation of embodied thinking while foregrounding the importance of the memory, perception, and composition as the basis of a dramaturgical consciousness in improvisatory performance. |
Research Group | Dance group |
Page range | 106-123 |
Book title | Dance Dramaturgy: Modes of Agency, Awareness and Engagement |
Editors | Callison, D. and Hansen, P. |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Place of publication | USA |
Series | New World Choreographies |
ISBN | |
Hardcover | 9781137373212 |
Publication dates | |
Aug 2015 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 28 May 2015 |
Submitted | Aug 2015 |
Output status | Published |
Additional information | eBook ISBN: 9781137373229 |
Web address (URL) | http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137373229 |
Language | English |
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