Description: This groundbreaking book moves beyond the conventional association of dramaturgy with plays to consider the substance and process of dramaturgy for dance and movement performance. Focusing on text and language, research, audience, movement, and interculturalism, the author provides vivid, practical examples from her collaboration with renowned choreographer Ralph Lemon.
Brief description: Katherine Profeta is a professor in the Practice of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. She has been the dramaturg for choreographer and visual artist Ralph Lemon since 1997, as well as for numerous other choreographers and theater companies. She is also a founding member and choreographer with the theater company Elevator Repair Service.
Review Quotes: "In five compelling chapters--text and language, research, audience, movement, interculturality--Dramaturgy in Motion provides a practical resource, equally valuable for theatre dramaturgs and devisers as it will be for dance dramaturgs and choreographers."--DD Kugler, Simon Fraser University