NAVIGATING CLOUDS: NOTES ON DRAMATURGICAL PRACTICE AND PREPARATION PROCEDURES FOR WRITING

Abstract

This text presents itself as a collection of reflections and questions in the field of dramaturgy, with an emphasis on the collective creation process in the performing arts and in the procedures of preparation for dramaturgical writing – a theme rarely addressed in texts that focus on this practice. Divided into eleven fragments, it goes through a dialogue with Antônio Gonçalves Júnior (Duran), André Lepecki, Eleonora Fabião and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, in order to outline possible paths for dramaturgical practice that is not limited to textual creation. Considering aspects of performativity, it traces implications in an artistic practice that is opposed to the fetishized ideas involved in the whole spectrum of professions that deal with writing practices. Process and procedures experienced by the author in her dramaturgical practice will also be reported. Preliminary result of a research project that proposes an analysis of dramaturgical practices in the contemporary context, the notes are presented as proposals for other ways of being, producing, working and relating to people and materialities as necessary to the practice of dramaturgy – that does not need to deny the text or textual production and that is composed in a collective process.

Keywords

Scene. Dramaturgy. Preparation for Writing. Creation Process.