The Relational Dramaturgies research group investigates collaborative creation processes and artistic strategies for staging meaning, movement and experience both within and beyond performing art contexts. The group aims to exchange expertise and shared interests, gathering themes, methods and concepts related to contemporary dramaturgy, with a focus on intra-actions between media, movement and matter involved in interdisciplinary creation processes.
Topics we are interested in are: posthuman dramaturgies of intra-actions; relations between movement, knowledge and technology; connections between dramaturgy and embodied knowledge, ecology and new materialism, (care)work and labour involved in artistic creation processes, as well as the artistic strategies through which these issues can be examined, both in and beyond the theatre.
For further information and inquiries, you can contact: Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink
Research Activities
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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… > read more
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Performance Research Methods
Evelyn Wan Konstantina Georgelou Laura Karreman Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink Publications Theron SchmidtThis project and book describes and collects methods for interdisciplinary research, amongst others Dramaturgical Analysis, Spectatorship Analysis, Intersectionality, Practice-led Research,… > read more
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Doing Dramaturgy
This book explores how the practice of dramaturgy is shaped by today’s highly diverse fields of theatre, dance, and performance.… > read more
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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… > read more
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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… > read more
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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… > read more
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Dramaturgy Database
Dramaturgy Database is an online database with many (full text) interviews, essays, literature annotations and other archival material, which exposes… > read more
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Dramaturgy for devices
The Dramaturgy for Devices project is a collaboration between robot designers and theatre and dance makers, showing how performing arts… > read more