Dramaturgy in Motion innovatively examines the work of the dramaturg in contemporary dance and movement performance. Katherine Profeta; a working dramaturg for more than fifteen years; shifts the focus from asking ldquo;Who is the dramaturg?rdquo; to ldquo;What does the dramaturg think about?rdquo; Profeta explores five arenas for the dramaturgrsquo;s attentionmdash;text and language; research; audience; movement; and interculturalism. Drawing on her extended collaboration with choreographer and visual artist Ralph Lemon; she grounds her thinking in actual rehearsal-room examples and situates practice within theoretical discourse about contemporary dramaturgy. Moving between theory and practice; word and movement; question and answer until these distinctions blur; she develops the foundational concept of dramaturgical labor as a quality of motion. Dramaturgy in Motion will be invaluable to practitioners and scholars interested in the processes of creating contemporary dance and movement performancemdash;particularly artists wondering what it might be like to collaborate with a dramaturg and dramaturgs wondering what it might be like to collaborate on movement performance. The book will also appeal to those intrigued by the work of Lemon and his collaborators; to which Profeta turns repeatedly to unfold the thorny questions and rich benefits of dramaturgical labor.
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