Dramaturgy is for me learning to handle complexity. It is feeding the ongoing conversation on the work, it is taking care of the reflexive potential as well as of the poetic force of the creation. Dramaturgy is building bridges, it is being responsible for the whole, dramaturgy is above all a constant movement. Inside and outside. The readiness to dive into the work, and withdraw from it again and again, inside, outside, trampling the leaves. A constant movement.
- Marianne Van Kerkhoven'European Dramaturgy in the 21st Century: A Constant Movement', Performance Research 14:3, Taylor & Francis, 2009
“… the dramaturg’s role relates the academic and the intellectual to the creative and intuitive operations of theatre making.”
- David LlewellynDramaturgy: A User's Guide, Central School of Speech & Drama, 1999:41
Why cling to the status of the dramaturg as the expert, as the vessel of knowledge? As a dramaturg, dare to stutter, dare to stammer, create a poetic language in stammering.
- Christel Stalpaert
'A Dramaturgy of the Body', Performance Research 14:3, 2009, p.123
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