The durational and the digital in performing arts continue to fly even as the world begins to enter an era of endemic with mobility freedoms near the horizon. ADN dives into the notions of durational dramaturgy in a digital context with special reference to 14, a 5-hour dance performance through multiple locations, conceptualised by Chen Wu-Kang and Sun Ruey Horng. 

Moderated by dramaturg Cheng Nien Yuan, this roundtable features Chen, Sun and dramaturg Shawn Chua in conversation to unpack durational and digital dramaturgy in all its specificities and complexities.

This workshop will explore questions of contemporary dramatical practice and ‘new dramaturgy’; we will investigate how dramaturgy has become centrally important in the theory and practice of making contemporary performance. Contemporary performance is a wide interdisciplinary field of performance that includes and mixes aspects of drama, dance, performance, media, design, sound and visuality, along with research into cultural theories and ways of being in the world. These are all touchstones for exploring processes of devising new performance forms. Dramaturgy is seen as a creative and theoretical bridging practice that explores how ideas and cultural themes from the world are adapted and transformed in the making of contemporary performance. In essence, the workshop will explore the central idea that contemporary performance is dramaturgical. 

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