Interdisciplinary Dramaturgy Coaching
with Ivana Ivkovič (Zagreb) and Janez Janša (Ljubljana)
Riga, 22 - 24 September
The mentoring focuses on the key role that dramaturgy plays in the making of a contemporary stage event. The aim of the workshop is to help the author in the artistic process. The attentions is directed towards the development of thinking and practical methods that deal with the issues of content and form.
The participants are asked to apply on the basis of their projects. The coaches will give an individual coaching session, inviting the participants to a creative, dynamic and critical discussion about artistic processes and decisions.
In this analytical discussion the artists will have the opportunity to deepen their way of working and think about dramaturgical issues.
The participation is free of charge. The coaching will be in English. The sessions are individual, no spectators admitted.
Janez Janša is a performance artista, author and director of interdisciplinary projects. He has studied sociology and theatre directing at the University of Ljubljana and performance theory at the University of Antwerp. His latest work includes interactive performance Miss Mobile, performance for soldiers in peace-keeping missions We Are All Marlene Dietrich For and reconstruction of the piece from 1969 – Pupilja, Papa Pupilo and The Pupilceks. Recently, he performed in the improvisation project At the Table curated by the choreographer Meg Stuart.
Since 1999 Janez Janša is the director of Maska, a non-profit organization in publishing, production and education in Ljubljana, and editor in chief of the performing arts journal Maska. He has published numerous essays on contemporary theatre and art including the book on Flemish artist and theatre maker Jan Fabre (1994). He has been editor in chief of the performing arts journal Maska (1999-2006), edited a reader of contemporary theatre theories (Presence, Representation, Theatricality, Maska, Ljubljana 1996), a reader of contemporary dance theories (Theories of Contemporary Dance, Maska, Ljubljana, 2001) and several other titles.
www.maska.si
Ivana Ivkovič regularly collaborates as dramaturge with the Croation dance companies oor and BADco. (presented at Homo Novus festival at 2005). She is a member of the editorial board of Frakcija Magazine for Performing Arts and also collaborates with the 3rd Program of Croatian Radio, several publications, the Center for Drama Art studies at the Department of Dramaturgy at the Academy of Drama Arts in Zagreb and works as the general coordinator of Zagreb - Cultural Kapital of Europe 3000, a project jointly organized by Zagreb's eight independent cultural organizations from the fields of performing arts, new media, visual arts, architecture and theory.
www.cdu.hr
Interdisciplinary Dramaturgy Coaching is a collaborative project, initiated by a number of arts organisations in Eastern Europe. The sessions have taken place in belgrade, Zagreb, Ljubljana, Berlin, Tallinn and Vienna. It is now integrated in a broader concept of the East Dance Academy. This platform for knowledge transfer in contemporary dance and performance started in June 2006. At the centre of the East Dance Academy is the question of whether there is (another) history of contemporary dance in (eastern) Europe, as dance here developed largely in a non-institutionalised framework.