The underlying idea of the workshop is that as a choreographer you don’t necessarily need a dramaturg but you should develop your own dramaturgical reflection on your artistic practice.

The workshop will offer participants practical tools and exercises to reflect upon, to evaluate and eventually to transform their creative process.

Using the cross, circle and labyrinth as graphic symbols, we will discuss the essential polarities of the creative process: perception, formation, intuition, experience.

In the workshop we will focus on perception (what to look for), articulation (how to express oneself best in order to get what one is looking for) and interdisciplinary practices: looking at how artists work in other disciplines and finding creative ‘translations’ of this toward one’s own practice.

Through practical and physical exercises we will explore how dramaturgy/the dramaturg can contribute to this process as witness, dialogue partner and ‘editor’. We will focus amongst others on the importance of rhythm and transitions inside the editing process.

The final goal of the workshop is to gain a different, renewed perspective of one’s own creative and choreographic process and methodologies through discovering the diversity of practices of the other participants.

The workshop will be given in English and is addressed to dance practitioners from Bremen, Dresden and Münsterland. A registration as a pair (1 dancer / 1 dramaturg) is desired but not mandatory.

The amount of participants is limited. You can announce interest in taking part at the workshop via mail: tanznetzwerk@lafdk-bremen.de until 3rd of April. Since the workshop is part of a cooperation between Dresden, Bremen and Münsterland, please note that participants will be put together depending on their place of work and confirmations will be send out via mail to you on 24th of April latest. Please indicate in your email if you are attending as a group of two, what your work focuses on, and where you work. Please also add 1-2 sentences about your motivation in taking part in this workshop.