ON DANCE DRAMATURGY

Authors

  • Guy Cools Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts, Tilburg, Holanda

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22456/2236-3254.97634

Abstract

In 1994, Marianne Van Kerkhoven, the Flemish godmother of dance dramaturgy wrote a short, seminal article on the subject – Looking without pencil in the hand – of which the title alone is already a manifesto. This contribution builds further on Van Kerkhoven insights’: how the dramaturge has to stay necessarily invisible in the creative process (s)he is supporting; how in order to capture this invisible role, a lot of metaphors have been created. It continues with looking at the different roles I take up in my own practice: that of somatic witness, dialogue partner and editor. It concludes reasserting the practice of the (dance) dramaturge as a creative practice in which the whole body is involved and in which somatic proximity to the creative process is as important as critical distance.

 

Keywords

Dance dramaturgy. Somatic witness. Dialogue partner. Editor.

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Author Biography

Guy Cools, Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts, Tilburg, Holanda

Dr. Guy Cools é um dramaturgo de dança. Atribuições recentes incluem Professor Associado de Pesquisa no instituto de pesquisa Artes na Sociedade da Fontys Escola de Artes Visuais e Cênicas em Tilburg, e Pesquisador de Pós-Doutorado na Universidade de Ghent, onde concluiu seu doutorado guiado pela prática (practice-based PhD), na relação entre dança e escrita. Trabalhou como crítico de dança e curador de dança. Atualmente, dedica-se à dramaturgia de produção, contribuindo para o trabalho de coreógrafos de toda a Europa e Canadá. Suas publicações mais recentes incluem The Ethics of Art: ecological turns in the performing arts, co-editadas com Pascal Gielen (Valiz, 2014); In-between Dance Cultures: on the migratory artistic identity of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Akram Khan (Valiz, 2015) e Imaginative Bodies, dialogues in performance practices (Valiz, 2016). Com o coreógrafo canadense Lin Snelling, ele desenvolveu uma prática de performance improvisada 'Rewriting Distance' (veja também: www.rewritingdistance.com), focada na integração de movimento, voz e escrita. Cools mora em Viena (Áustria).

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Published

2019-12-04

How to Cite

Cools, G. (2019). ON DANCE DRAMATURGY. Revista Cena, (29), 53–63. https://doi.org/10.22456/2236-3254.97634

Issue

No. 29 (2019): Dossiê Dramaturgia(s), Dramaturgismo em Tempos Pós-dramáticos

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Artigos

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