Dance Dramaturgy Workshop with Thomas Schaupp (Germany)

Dance dramaturgy workshop with Thomas Schaupp (Germany)

Lithuanian Dance Information Centre (LDIC) invites you to a free workshop which is relevant to dance artists. During the event, dance dramaturg and curator Thomas Schaupp will share his insights on how we can build bridges between art piece and the spectator and foster creative and critical thinking through the help of dramaturgy.

The workshop is open to both professional and amateur dance artists, dance teachers, the workshop will also be useful for other representatives of performing arts.

Time and place: April 29th, 10.30 am in Arts Printing House, Šiltadaržio street 6. Duration: 3 hours including a short break.

Language: English.

Registration for the workshop (open until April 20th): https://forms.gle/Djb9TwEBKtAj3WCK6

About the workshop: Dramaturgy and the dramaturgical still can be considered as a relatively new profession as well as mode of thinking within the dance field, especially in contemporary dance practices. And here it is, if at all, widely understood as a mode of looking and thinking in and through the evolution of ideas thru time – assisting the choreographer in building up the final journey of the dance work. Far less considered is a profound aspect that lies right within the notion of dramaturgy itself. As it translates itself as „working with/on actions“, it could also be understood as a mode of „thinking in togetherness“ – Relevant in times, in which art as a place for public discourse is increasingly challenged by the polarization in the society.

Based on this presumption this Introductory Workshop outlines the Dramaturgical as a collaborative practice, interlinking the arts with the society, creating common grounds and considering the place of the other, e.g. the public. Together we will raise questions around the relevance and the necessity but also the responsibility of the Dramaturgical within Art Making?

Shortly about the lecturer: Thomas (he/him) is a dance dramaturg and curator based in Berlin. In 2010, while still a student, he interned for Sasha Waltz & Guests in Berlin and Paris, as well as for the National Center for Dance in Bucharest. Soon after his studies, he devoted himself fully to freelance work as a dramaturg and has since been working internationally with choreographers across Europe and beyond, is invited as an advisor in mentoring programs of choreographic institutions in Berlin, Reykjavik, Beijing and is one of the founders of a podcast ‘Contextualizing Dance’.

Our activities are funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania, Vilnius City Municipality.

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