The Movement Research Performance Journal Issue #61 - Dramaturgy

Movement Research Performance Journal Issue 61 takes up dance dramaturgy — not as a codified discipline but as a practice defined by intimacy, invisibility, and the persistent question of how close one can get to an artistic process without becoming one of its agents. Anchored by a special section from Contributing Editor Ligia Lewis, whose work continually reinvents what a dramaturg is meant to do, the issue gathers voices from practicing dramaturgs, reluctant title-holders, and outright refusers to ask why contemporary dance has seen an explosion of interest in the dramaturg — and what the desire to continually reinvent this figure tells us about an urgent need to find new ways of working together.