Improvisation practices and dramaturgical consciousness: a workshop

Midgelow, Vida L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0232-2209 (2015) Improvisation practices and dramaturgical consciousness: a workshop. In: Dance Dramaturgy: Modes of Agency, Awareness and Engagement. Callison, Darcey and Hansen, Pil, eds. New World Choreographies . Palgrave Macmillan, USA, pp. 106-123. ISBN 9781137373212. [Book Section]

Abstract

Re-presenting on the page a dance workshop, this article draws attention to what I describe as a dramaturgical consciousness within improvised dance performance. Developing this particular consciousness entails a reconfiguration of the dramaturgical and the improvisational, which allows us to understand them both as embodied practices that play with memory. The workshop takes the participant/reader through a series of activities designed to activate a sensibility through which action and intellect, inside and outside, and past and present are productively blurred. As a practical workshop, it requires the purposeful activation of embodied thinking while foregrounding the importance of the memory, perception, and composition as the basis of a dramaturgical consciousness in improvisatory performance.

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