Ecologies of Dramaturgy in Dance Creation: A Conversation

Authors

  • Haley Baird Concordia University, Montreal
  • Vanessa Montesi University of Lisbon http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4492-4689
  • Dana Dugan Concordia University, Montreal
  • Matthew-Robin Nye Concordia University, Montreal
  • Angélique Willkie Concordia University, Montreal
  • Christian Scott Concordia University, Montreal
  • Melina Scialom Universidade de Campinas http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5701-6853

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.9771/rr.v1i36.38213

Keywords:

Dramaturgia, Ecologia, Corporalização, Criação em Dança, Agenciamento.

Abstract

AW é Jamaicana, Preta, dançarina mulher cisgênero e dramaturga. Dois interesses paralelos emergiram gradualmente ao longo de sua carreira – a contribuição do performer ao processo criativo, e a dinâmica da operação necessariamente colaborativa que é a coreografia contemporânea. Esta entrevista com a artista-pesquisadora reporta sua experiência artística e o processo criativo da obra Confession Publique, ao qual ela ocupa a posição triádica de dramaturga, dançarina e pesquisadora auto-etnógrafa, compondo uma conversa dialógica entre artistas interdisciplinares e pesquisadores do projeto Dramaturgical Ecologies (sediado na Anonimo). Para além de uma entrevista, este projeto polivocal–centrado nos temas de agenciamento, dramaturgia, corporalização e movimento–migrou do físico para o virtual, respondendo a reconfiguração biopolítica causada pela pandemia do COVID-19. Esta transição ativou  tensões e ressonâncias no diálogo que se tornaram limitações facilitadoras, onde os corpos envolvidos na pesquisa se tornaram parte da co-composição dramatúrgica do processo de escrita deste texto. O resultado está distribuído nas páginas que seguem, tomando forma de uma escrita performativa dialógica-reflexiva, criada a partir de um processo de pensamento coletivo. 

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Author Biographies

Haley Baird, Concordia University, Montreal

Haley Baird is pursuing a master's degree in Anthropology. Her ethnographic research explores the affective politics of consent in the context of improvisational dance in the San Francisco Bay Area of California (USA). 

Vanessa Montesi, University of Lisbon

Vanessa Montesi is a PhD student and FCT scholarship holder at the University of Lisbon, where she collaborates with the Centre for Comparative Studies being part of the research cluster P'ARTE. She earned a B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literature from the University of Bologna, an M.A. in Translation Studies from the University of Sheffield (UK), and she is now writing her thesis on dance as a form of intermedial translation.

Dana Dugan, Concordia University, Montreal

Los Angeles native, Dana Dugan is a Montreal based artist, mother, performer, scholar, and dramaturg. As a doctoral student at Concordia’s Humanities Interdisciplinary Program (Montreal, QC), Dana’s practice-based research moves through the fields of performance, black studies, and process philosophy. Through her artist-scholar embodied practice, she continues to develop her concept and practice of (dis)obedience.

Matthew-Robin Nye, Concordia University, Montreal

Matthew-Robin Nye is a PhD Student at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies for Society and Culture, where he is pursuing a research-creation PhD in the fields of process philosophy, performance studies and studio arts. As a trans-disciplinary artist, he has exhibited, lectured, and held residencies in Canada and abroad. 

Angélique Willkie, Concordia University, Montreal

Performer, singer, pedagogue and dramaturg, Angélique spent a 25-year career in Europe working with, among others, Alain Platel, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Jan Lauwers/Needcompany. A dramaturg for dance and circus, and an ongoing performer, Angélique is Associate Professor in the Department of Contemporary Dance at Concordia University.  

Christian Scott, Concordia University, Montreal

christian is a queer mexican-canadian artist-researcher based in Montreal/Tio'tia:ke who works in the margins of academia, creative practice, and activism. They are a PhD student at Concordia University where they collaborate at the Performative Urbanism Lab (PULSE) and the Dramaturgical Ecologies research group.
Their research-creation practice is based around poetry, sound, performance, installation, and games—exploring themes of the body, situated urbanisms, critical place-making (space/memory/identity), gentrification, and feminist futures

Melina Scialom, Universidade de Campinas

Artist-researcher and choreologist, Melina’s current research is centred in the dramaturgy in its expanded field, as well as teaching movement for actors and musicians. Post-doctorate fellow at UNICAMP, has also been a visiting scholar at Concordia University (CA) and Utrecht University (NL). With a PhD in Dance (Roehampton University, UK) and a Specialist Diploma in Choreological Studies (Trinity-Laban, UK), she is also founder of the Maya-Lila Dance company.

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Published

2021-09-29

How to Cite

Baird, H., Montesi, V., Dugan, D., Nye, M.-R., Willkie, A., Scott, C., & Scialom, M. (2021). Ecologies of Dramaturgy in Dance Creation: A Conversation. Repertório, 1(36). https://doi.org/10.9771/rr.v1i36.38213

Issue

No. 36 (2021)

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PERSONA

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