Dramaturgies of performance

11.09.2006 | In the academic year 2005/2006, the seminar Reflections on Contemporary Art: A Seminar in Contemporary Performing Arts will run under the title Dramaturgies of performance: Dramaturgical practices in contemporary theatre and dance. It will consist of regular lectures, three workshops and a series of public lectures. The students will participate in the seminar and the three workshops. Guest lectures will be preceded by seminar videoshops (the viewing of selected works from the field of contemporary performing and visual arts). The seminar will thus also provide an opportunity to gain an insight into the current state of affairs in theatre. The lectures will run from 7 November 2005 to 15 May 2006. They will take place in Cankarjev dom on Mondays, usually in theatre M3/4, between 7 and 10 pm. The seminar will consist of the internal sessions on Mondays (36 hours, i. e. 9 sessions) conducted by Assoc Prof Bojana Kunst, and a series of public lectures by prominent Slovenian and foreign experts (8 sessions). In addition to this, the students will be able to participate in three theoretical and practical workshops (70 hours), which will explore various aspects of the dramaturgical work and the themes in contemporary performing arts. The workshops will be conducted by Gerald Siegmund, Kattrin Deufert and Thomas Plischke. They will take place in November, January and March.

THE PARTICIPATING LECTURERS ARE:
Gerald Siegmund, lecturer at the Institute for Applied Theatre Science in Giessen (November)
Myriam Van Imschoot, dramaturgist and theorist from Brussels; her latest dramaturgical project was a collaboration with Meg Stuart
Alenka Zupančič, philosopher and researcher at the ZRC SAZU, the author of Poetics: Book II (Poetika: druga knjiga, 2005)
Blaž Lukan, theatre critic for the daily newspaper Delo, publicist, dramaturgist and playwright
Barbara Orel, assistant at the AGRFT, the author of The Play Within the Play (Igra v igri, 2003)
Kurt Vanhoutte, lecturer at the Universities of Antwerpen and Groeningen, dramaturgist and theorist in the field of new media and theatre
Kattrin Deufert, dramaturgist and choreographer, the leader of the Frankfurter Kuche
Thomas Plischke, dancer and choreographer, the co-leader of the Frankfurter Kuche
Bojana Kunst, researcher in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Ljubljana, the author of Dangerous Liaisons (Nevarne povezave, 2004)
Krassimira Kruschkova, lecturer at the Vienna Theatre Academy, dramaturgist at the Viennese dance theatre Tanzquartier