Salon Embodied dramaturgies
Dramaturgy ties itself to materials and media, bodies and space, providing a shared ground for exploration, collaboration and the production of meaning within creative processes. Once a clear function, dramaturgy translates itself today in a variety of practices and discourses. Sarma hosts a salon for dialogue on these embodied dramaturgies with several guests from the field of dance: choreographer Julien Bruneau and dramaturges Bojana Bauer and Jeroen Peeters.
In relation to the workshop Backtracking and his own dramaturgical practice, Jeroen Peeters will introduce the notion of “embodied dramaturgy”, its constitutive aspects and its pertinence for artistic research and creation. How to develop a singular method and a shared ground where experimentation and exploration, desire and doubt have a place? Creating a conceptual landscape in which one can take a walk with concepts, ideas and materials is a possible strategy.
Departing from his project Phréatiques, in which collective practices are developed based on specific scores that combine dance, thinking and drawing, choreographer Julien Bruneau will discuss how they provide a frame in which a variety of heterogeneous shapes, thoughts, states could be experienced and related to each other in a layered and constantly recombined network.
Many anxieties revolving around the status of discourse and spectatorship haunt the notion of dramaturgy in the field of dance. How can one acknowledge them and at once take a fresh look at the relation between dramaturgy and notions such as vision, kinaesthesia, effectiveness or theory? How to address the idea of dramaturgy’s own movement? Drawing on her experiences with dramaturgical work in dance and visual arts, Bojana Bauer will explore these questions.
Guests: Bojana Bauer, Julien Bruneau and Jeroen Peeters Production: Sarma. Co-production: WorkSpaceBrussels. With the support of Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie
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Bojana Bauer (born in Belgrade) is a dramaturge and dance theoretician based in Paris. She is currently carrying out a PhD in aesthetics and theory of performing arts at the University Paris 8. She collaborates with choreographers Mário Afonso, Latifa Lâabissi, Vera Mantero and the visual artist Pedro Gomez-Egaña. She gives public talks and conferences in institutions such as National Art Academy, Bergen or DasArts, Amsterdam. Bauer has written for Répères, TkH, mouvement.net and Performance Research amongst others.
Julien Bruneau is based in Brussels where he first studied visual arts at La Cambre. His artistic research led him towards dance, his main activity since then. For several years, he develops his own work, collaborating with people involved in various fields – dance, music, visual arts, photography, performed poetry or philosophy – for set pieces, improvisation projects, and researches (with Maurizio Saiu, Phonotopy, Hugues Warin, Idioms Film collective, Antoine Boute, Alix de Morant, Jonathan Philippe…). His work (centaure: une flaque animale de miel brun (avec des poils dedans), vrac pli, oint.oint., v a s t e, seconde main ) has been supported / produced by / performed at a.o. Les Halles de Schaerbeek (B), Roma Europa festival (IT), Bains::Connective, de Pianofabriek, Netwerk, La Maison Folie de Mons (B), Point Ephémère (FR). As a performer for other’s pieces, Julien Bruneau worked notably for the theatre director Claude Schmitz and with the choreographers Christine Quoiraud, Stefan Dreher, Lilia Mestre and Anouk Llaurens. Besides his activities as dancer/choreographer, he develops a practice of drawing and writing.
Jeroen Peeters is an essayist, dramaturge, performer and curator based in Brussels. He publishes on dance and performance in various specialized media, such as Contact Quarterly, corpus, Dance Theatre Journal and Etcetera. His book in collaboration with Meg Stuart, Are we here yet? was published in March 2010 (Les Presses du réel). Since 2002, Peeters has been co-directing Sarma, a discursive laboratory for dance criticism, research, dramaturgy and creation (www.sarma.be). As dramaturge, artistic collaborator and/or performer, Peeters has contributed to projects of Eleanor Bauer, Paul Deschanel Movement Research Group, Jack Hauser, Sabina Holzer, Anne Juren, Thomas Lehmen, Martin Nachbar, Colette Sadler, Meg Stuart and Superamas, among others. With Kattrin Deufert, Thomas Plischke and Marcus Steinweg he created Anarchiv #1: I am not a zombie in 2009.