Micro & Macro – Dramaturgies in dance

Micro and Macro Dramaturgies in Dance is a two-year-long European research and training project, that brings together six leading contemporary dance organizations: Anghiari Dance Hub and Marche Teatro (Italy), Bora Bora (Denmark), Dance House Lemesos (Cyprus), DansBrabant (the Netherlands) and Tanec Praha (Czechia). The project focusses on exploring through exchanging and collaborating dramaturgy as a creative and socially conscious practice. The project is coordinated by Tanec Praha and curated by a Scientific Team of dramaturgs: Guy Cools, Katalin Trencsényi, Maja Hriešik, and Anne-Marije van den Bersselaar.

On the 22. – 31. of March, Bora Bora will host an international collaboration focusing on developing the choreographers’ capacity in dramaturgy. Micro and macro dramaturgies in dance aim to develop new skills for choreographers in dramaturgy and to train a future generation of dance “playwrights”. We do this to create more exciting performances for the audience. The subject for this years’ intensive workshop is “disturbing patterns”. The project is international and therefore it is primarily aimed at English-speaking audiences. All events will be in English.

„More than ever, there is a need for critical re-inflexion that the work of artists today indicates in its social and cultural context; more than ever, the world needs a refinement of standpoints, awareness of existing paradoxes and contradictions, a different view of reality. Artists can help us to read the world, to decipher its complexity. One of the means available to them is to use dramaturgy in all different forms that it can take.” – Marianne Van Kerkhove

The chosen theme of the Aarhus residency, as mentioned, is disturbing patterns, which also aims to disturb the established patterns of the program in many ways. Having held two MMDD intensives that were idealizing dramaturgy (weaving the fabric of society, bringing people together), we would like to explore the more uncomfortable, questioning, disturbing, so to say ‘darker’ or even political side of dance dramaturgy. The theme also resonates with those socially conscious and innovative methods that are used at Bora Bora, as summarized by their artistic director, Jesper de Neergaard: “facing our worries and arming our resistance and creativity at the same time”.

Program of the intensive is available here later.

Online event: 26 th of march 16.00 

Disturbing patterns  – how can dramaturgy be an instigator of changes?

Roundtable with Danish / Denmark-based dramaturgs (live-streamed).

Participants: Synne Behrndt, Tina Tarpgaard, Naya Moll Olssen.

Facilitator: Katalin Trencsényi

Live Streaming of event 26th of march will be available here: 

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