TY - CONF
T1 - The Spider and the Crab
T2 - EASTAP 23: European Association for Study of Theatre and Performance --Dimensions of Dramaturgy
AU - Tomic-Vajagic, Tamara
PY - 2023/6/15
Y1 - 2023/6/15
N2 - This performative panel session proposes and explores the notion of ‘lateral dramaturgy’; dramaturgy as a practice of lateral movement and, in turn, moving laterally as a dramaturgical practice. We are especially interested in the doings, knowings and embodyings of dance and choreography within their infrastructures, alongside the complementary movements of undoing, unknowing and disembodying those infrastructures. Moving laterally, sideways, refuses the centered, the linear and the directed, possibilizing decentring, incidentalness, inconsistency and opaqueness in knowledge and attention. In our aim to resist the anxiety of reasserting knowledge, and to suspend knowing by maintaining what is present, we are also searching for ways to move with our research sideways. We acknowledge that this takes place in western educational institutions and organisations where moving/thinking is mostly expected to be progressive and where laterality is usually associated with thinking creatively (often referred to as thinking ‘out of the box’), but rarely contributes to reconfigured or inconsistent directions or actions thereafter. One of our basic questions then is ‘How do we move/think laterally?’; how might we be doing this in our individual yet interconnected practices – of making, collaborating, curating, dramaturging, writing – but also in the ways that we come together in research presentations such as this one. Our individual contributions will draw on recent practice research to raise questions around attention and (in)visibility, collage and fragmented narratives, institutional unruliness, unquiet belonging and experimental collaboration, as well as – inevitably perhaps – the micropolitics of speaking/thinking along each other.
AB - This performative panel session proposes and explores the notion of ‘lateral dramaturgy’; dramaturgy as a practice of lateral movement and, in turn, moving laterally as a dramaturgical practice. We are especially interested in the doings, knowings and embodyings of dance and choreography within their infrastructures, alongside the complementary movements of undoing, unknowing and disembodying those infrastructures. Moving laterally, sideways, refuses the centered, the linear and the directed, possibilizing decentring, incidentalness, inconsistency and opaqueness in knowledge and attention. In our aim to resist the anxiety of reasserting knowledge, and to suspend knowing by maintaining what is present, we are also searching for ways to move with our research sideways. We acknowledge that this takes place in western educational institutions and organisations where moving/thinking is mostly expected to be progressive and where laterality is usually associated with thinking creatively (often referred to as thinking ‘out of the box’), but rarely contributes to reconfigured or inconsistent directions or actions thereafter. One of our basic questions then is ‘How do we move/think laterally?’; how might we be doing this in our individual yet interconnected practices – of making, collaborating, curating, dramaturging, writing – but also in the ways that we come together in research presentations such as this one. Our individual contributions will draw on recent practice research to raise questions around attention and (in)visibility, collage and fragmented narratives, institutional unruliness, unquiet belonging and experimental collaboration, as well as – inevitably perhaps – the micropolitics of speaking/thinking along each other.
M3 - Other
Y2 - 14 June 2023 through 18 June 2023
ER -