Simulation, Speculation and Futurity in Contemporary Dramaturgy
This research project and book (forthcoming at Routledge in 2026) observes and documents a return to fiction, in contemporary theatre and performance. In response to pressing issues such as climate change, faltering democracies or social inequality, artists rediscover the value and necessity of imagination and speculation, in order to create alternative scenarios for a world
Performance Research Methods
This project and book describes and collects methods for interdisciplinary research, amongst others Dramaturgical Analysis, Spectatorship Analysis, Intersectionality, Practice-led Research, Performance Philosophy, Movement Analysis and many more approaches relevant to dramaturgy.
Doing Dramaturgy
This book explores how the practice of dramaturgy is shaped by today’s highly diverse fields of theatre, dance, and performance. Through dialogue with fourteen performances and their makers, it traces the thinking-through-practice that underpins these works. The book examines dramaturgical thinking as a material and embodied practice, and understands theatre-making as an expression of that
Research group Relational Dramaturgies
Six-weekly, informal gathering of dramaturgy researchers, both affiliated and independent, in which researchers share their research in progress. If you wish to join, send an email and brief motivation to L.W.GrootNibbelink@uu.nl.
Dramaturgy as a Practice of Lateral Movement (2020-)
A research project by Konstantina Georgelou and Efrosini Protopapa, that studies dramaturgy as a practice of lateral movement and, in turn, moving laterally as a dramaturgical practice. Moving laterally, sideways, instead of linearly and directly, possibilises decentering, incidentalness, incosistency and opaqueness in knowledge and attention. In our aim to resist the anxiety of reasserting knowledge, and to
The Practice of Dramaturgy
The Practice of Dramaturgy addresses dramaturgy as a shared, politicized and catalytic practice that sets actions into motion in a more speculative, rather than an instructive way. The first part explores three working principles that lie at the heart of the editors’ propositions, and relates these to debates on action, work and post-Fordist labour. The second
Dramaturgy Database
Dramaturgy Database is an online database with many (full text) interviews, essays, literature annotations and other archival material, which exposes dramaturgical developments in the Dutch and Flemish theatre and dance field, ranging from main stage companies to postdramatic and experimental work.
Dramaturgy for devices
The Dramaturgy for Devices project is a collaboration between robot designers and theatre and dance makers, showing how performing arts skills and knowledge can contribute to sensitive design tools and technological innovation.