Dance dramaturgy: investigating movement tension and the interfaces between dance, theatre and expanded notions of dramaturgy

• Grant number: 16/08669-5
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: September 01, 2016
• End date: December 31, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Linguistics, Literature and Arts - Arts - Dance
• Principal Investigator: Verônica Fabrini Machado de Almeida
• Grantee: Melina Scialom
• Host Institution: Instituto de Artes (IA). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 19/18875-0 - Performer dramaturgy: deepening the research in experience, affect and dramaturgy in the dance making (processual) context, BE.EP.PD 17/17050-1 - Movement Dramaturgy: investigating the boundaries and stretching the limits of dance dramaturgy., BE.EP.PD

Abstract

This project is an empiric research enterprise about Dance Dramaturgy. Having dramaturgy as a field that originated in theatre arts, it is the nature of this investigation the transits, dialogues and tensions between Dance and Theatre. It proposes to investigate the history and developments of the Dance Dramaturgy practices that have been developed internationally throughout the 21st century. It also intends to investigate practical possibilities of working with dramaturgy in dance spectacles and investigate notions of expanded dramaturgy in theatre.Through my knowledge and practice of Choreology (specialist in Rudolf Laban's praxis), I intend to investigate modes and possibilities of working with dramaturgy in dance, developing laboratories for creative and choreographic investigation/composition and in parallel work as a dramaturge in a dance piece from a professional dance company. On the other hand, I also intend to develop work alongside actors and theatre directors who work with notions of expanded dramaturgy. The results of both the theoretical and practical research activity will be registered through the writing of papers in national and international specialised journals, in order to disseminate the knowledge developed and contribute to the debate in the disciplines of dance, theatre and performing arts in general. Finally, this project also aims to launch and coordinate a research group about the theme, aiming the organisation and publication of a book with articles from Brazilian researchers that investigate dance dramaturgy.