MICRO AND MACRO DRAMATURGIES IN DANCE

Micro and Macro Dramaturgies in Dance is a two-year-long European research and training project, that brings together six leading contemporary dance organisations: Anghiari Dance Hub and Marche Teatro (Italy), Bora Bora (Denmark), Dance House Lemesos (Cyprus), DansBrabant (the Netherlands) and Tanec Praha (Czechia) to explore through exchange and collaboration dramaturgy as a creative and socially conscious practice. The project is coordinated by Tanec Praha and curated by dramaturgs/mentors: Guy Cools, Katalin Trencsényi, Maja Hriešik, Anne-Marije van den Bersselaar and Alexis Vassiliou.

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Disturbing Patterns - How can dramaturgy be an instigator of change? A roundtable conversation

A public event, part of the Micro and Macro Dramaturgies in Dance project’s 
Aarhus residency programme
Saturday, 26 March 2022, 16.00 - 17.30 
(followed by a reception & informal conversation until 19.00)
Participants: Synne Behrndt, Naya Moll Olsen, Rasmus Skov, and Tina Tarpgaard
Facilitator: Katalin Trencsényi
Venue: Bora Bora (Valdemarsgade 1, 8000 Aarhus), ‘Big Stage’
The event will be live-streamed and can be followed through here: https://bora-bora.dk/livestreaming/

A FREE event

„More than ever, there is a need for critical re-inflexion that the work of artists today indicates in its social and cultural context; more than ever, the world needs refinement of standpoints, awareness of existing paradoxes and contradictions, a different view of reality. Artists can help us to read the world, to decipher its complexity. One of the means available to them is to use dramaturgy in all the different forms it can take.”  - Marianne Van Kerkhoven

 

 

DISTURBING PATTERNS - MMDD Aarhus residency, 21 – 29 March 2022

The next MMDD residency in March 2022 (the third in the programme and the first for the new cohort of artists) marks the beginning of the second round of the MMDD project. A pattern that is now familiar for the participating partner organisations, and at the same time a cycle that begins anew for the new cohort of participating artists.
The residency is curated and facilitated by Katalin Trencsényi and Alexis Vassiliou.

 

Being There – Platforms of the Future, panel discussion in the frame of Micro & Macro Dramaturgies in Dance intensive Tilburg

Panel discussion
30 October 2021
16:00 - 17:30 
De Nachtzuster, Carré 50, 5017 JE Tilburg

Following the thought of Marianne van Kerkhoven that dramaturgy in the 21 Century is a constant movement, we will discuss with the panel how the different positions and conditions of dance dramaturgy are changing the field of choreography and dance. From defining the position of a dance dramaturg to dramaturgy as a practice transcending the field of dance.

“Being There” - The Environment of Care

“Being There” is the theme and title of a research project and manifestation in the city of Tilburg initiated by DansBrabant. 
The second part of dance dramaturgy intensive celebrates a live meeting taking place on 23/10 - 3/11 2021! 
The residency is curated and facilitated by Maja Hriešik.


 

MICRO AND MACRO DRAMATURGY

Of micro and macro dramaturgy (1999), Marianne Van Kerkhoven defined micro dramaturgy as "the dramaturgy that situates itself around a concrete production", while macro dramaturgy deals with "the social relevance and function of the theatre". (1) For Van Kerkhoven, the dramaturge always tries to build bridges between the micro and the macro dramaturgy, and as such supports the artists in their attempt "to help us read the world and to decipher its complexities".

"There are productions without a dramaturge, but there is no production without dramaturgy," noted van Kerkhoven.

The project wants to support mid-career, European choreographers to develop the tools to improve the micro dramaturgy of their own work by offering workshops and mentorship programs in which choreographers and dramaturges are brought together to develop their own dramaturgical practices and dialogues. As such, the project also wants to form the future generation of dance dramaturges.

"More than ever, there is a need for critical re-inflection that the work of artists today indicates in its social and cultural context; more than ever, the world needs a refinement of standpoints, awareness of existing paradoxes and contradictions, a different view of reality. Artists can help us to read the world, to decipher its complexity. One of the means available to them is to use the dramaturgy in all different forms that it can take."

Besides improving the micro dramaturgy of individual works, we also want to raise the level of involvement between the artists, their work, the artistic organizations where these works are created and presented and society at large. The project wants to stimulate and realize creations that clearly reflect on today's macro dramaturgy.

MORE ABOUT THE PROJECT

The project provides an opportunity to give artists from five partner countries (the Czech Republic, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark and Cyprus) the experience of leading European dance dramaturges led by Guy Cools, each year through two 10-day workshops (in the spring and autumn) for selected pairs of artists from each country (a choreographer and their potential dramaturge), but always open to the wider professional public. Each workshop will include a seminar with the participation of the wider art community and the last workshop in Prague will conclude with a final presentation of the outputs of the whole two-year project open to the general public.

Each workshop will include a seminar with the participation of the wider art community and the last workshop in Prague will conclude with a final presentation of the outputs of the whole two-year project open to the general public.