Dramaturgy 1

Display Schedule

Code	Completion	Credits	Range	Language Instruction	Semester
204MDDR1	credit	2	2 seminar hours (45 min) of instruction per week, 32 to 42 hours of self-study	English	winter

Subject guarantor

Sodja ZUPANC-LOTKER

Name of lecturer(s)

Sodja ZUPANC-LOTKER

Dramaturgy class will lead students towards understanding what contemporary dramaturgy is, how it works in devised theatre and how it is made. Dramaturgy is understood as the core of the performance it’s composition, structure or system, how that system is made and how it works, especially how it work in relationship to audience and their experience. Further we will develop ability to understand performative potential of raw and performative material, understand how it works and what it can add to the research of specific performance and the experience of it.

Learning outcomes

Course graduate:

will be familiar with the historical development of dramaturgy and the role of dramaturg in the making of performance;
will cultivate ability to read dramaturgical structures and to create their own; as well as the ability to read dramaturgical potential of different kinds of raw and performative material.

Prerequisites and other requirements

None.

Literature

Barba, Eugenio. On Directing and Dramaturgy: Burning the House. London: Routledge, 2010. Print.

Bleeker, Maaike. Visuality in the Theatre: The Locus of Looking. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Print.

Carlson, Marvin A. Performance: A Critical Introduction. New York: Routledge, 2004. Print.

Fischer-Lichte, Erika. The Transformative Power of Performance: A New Aesthetics. New York: Routledge, 2008. Print.

Fuchs, Elinor. The Death of Character: Perspectives on Theater after Modernism. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1996. Print.

Goldberg, RoseLee. Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2001. Print.

Gritzner, Karoline, Patrick Primavesi, and Heike Roms. “On Dramaturgy" Performance Research 14.3 (2009): 1-2. Print.

Heddon, Deirdre, and Jane Milling. Devising Performance: A Critical History. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Print.

Lehmann, Hans-Thies. Postdramatic Theatre. London: Routledge, 2006. Print.

Oddey, Alison. Devising Theatre: A Practical and Theoretical Handbook. London: Routledge, 1994. Print.

Turner, Cathy, and Synne K. Behrndt. Dramaturgy and Performance. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Print.

Evaluation methods and criteria

Active participation in exercises, completion of homework, active participation in the course minimum participation per semester 75%

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