VIDEOS
Speakers: PETER ECKERSALL, NESS ROQUE, NANAKO NAKAJIMAModerator-Provocateur: CORRIE TAN
“Dramaturgy – both as a theory and a practice – is always imbricated in a network of relations. It enables and arises from collaboration, contestation and disruption.” – Peter Eckersall (2016)
The first issue of ADN Re/View (Vol.1) charts some of the key ideas that emerged and circulated about dramaturgy and dramaturging in Asia. Featuring practitioner-dramaturgs Peter Eckersall, Ness Roque and Nanako Nakajima, and led by Corrie Tan as provocateur-moderator, the online discussion will unpack key themes of tracing Asian dramaturgy, mapping the terrain and dramaturging the ‘inter’.
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ADN RE/VIEW (VOL. 2)
100min / 4 OCTOBER 2021, 2000 – 2200 SGT
Speakers: GEE IMAAN SEMMALAR, JANICE POON, HELLY MINARTIModerator-Provocateur: KOK HENG LEUN
Dramaturgy should be viewed as an adaptive process that is able to respond to place, people and use.” – Janet Pillai
With the wide-ranging curiosities relating to dramaturgy and its expanded notions, "Vol. 2" of the ADN Re/View E-zine series considers how ‘tracing’ offers a frame to work with when making sense of how dramaturgy affects our lives – in performance-making and in the everyday.
Whether the discussion is about history, tradition, gender, sexuality or race, the performance work that is referred to by varied ADN presenters provides a resource from which they extrapolate or theorise ideas that matter to them. How does one’s subjective experience shape the dramaturgical process in theatre and in life?
In this online roundtable discussion, practitioner-dramaturgs Gee Imaan Semmalar, Janice Poon, Helly Minarti and led by provocateur-moderator Kok Heng Leun, will respond to and unpack key points brought up in Vol. 2.
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ADN RE/VIEW (VOL. 3)
114min / 11 JANUARY 2022, 1800 – 2100 SGT
Speakers: JANET PILLAI, DAVID PLEDGERModerator-Provocateur: CHARLENE RAJENDRAN
The third and final volume of ADN Re/View plays with the notion of framing in dramaturgical thinking and the work of a dramaturg. A recurring challenge for a dramaturg, as with an artist, is to work out what really needs to be done and how best to do this. Varied options may emerge as to the kinds of frames and framing mechanisms that would best serve the work, and shaping the frames is an aspect of artistry that may not always be noticed.
Rounding up the ADN Re/View series of e-publications, dramaturgs Janet Pillai and David Pledger are invited to respond to the questions and themes arising from Vol. 3, Framing, as well as previous volumes - Vol. 1, Mapping and Vol. 2, Tracing. Facilitated by Charlene Rajendran, the conversation will also look at their thoughts on dramaturgy and dramaturgs in the current climate.
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BODIES TO BODIES DRAMATURGIES
173min / 27 FEBRUARY 2022, 1600 – 1900 SGT
Speakers: MAJA HRIESIK, NIA AUGUSTINA, SASAPIN ‘PUPE’ SIRIWANIJ, SARA VANDERIECKConvenors: LIM HOW NGEAN, GUY COOLS
Featuring an international roundtable of artists, practitioners, dramaturgs who are engaged in and dedicated to the dramaturgy of the performing body in its multitude of performance strategies.
Paired across different corners of the globe - Maja Hriesik (Slovakia) and Nia Augustina (Indonesia), Sasapin Siriwanij (Thailand) and Sara Vanderieck (Belgium) - will share with us their prior online dialogues with each other and bring sharp focus to ideas surrounding the theme ‘Bodies to Bodies Dramaturgies”.
We are excited to have a meeting of minds of vast and varied expertise, experience and interests in dance, physical theatre and other corporeal performances.
ONGOING ONLINE: DURATIONAL AND DIGITAL DRAMATURGY
102min / 12 MARCH 2022, 1400 – 1600 SGT
Speakers: CHEN WU-KANG, SUN RUEY HORNG, SHAWN CHUAModerator-Provocateur: NIEN YUAN CHENG
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.
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TRANSLOCAL CONNECTIONS: INTRODUCING THE ASIAN PERFORMING ARTS LAB
(APAL) IN GERMANY
101min / 11 JANUARY 2022, 1500 – 1700 SGT
Speakers: MING POON, DANDAN LIUProvocateur: FEZHAH MAZNAN
While the world was isolating and going online, there are still emergent small communities – with safe measures, of course – coming together for the arts. These initiatives strive for development and works-in-progress with support from a collective of artists. Such an initiative is the Germany-based Asian Performing Arts Lab (APAL). With the aim of providing a safe ‘holding place’ for artists to spend time developing and trialling artistic ideas, APAL offers short residencies particularly aligning itself with feminist, queer, decolonial and translocal perspective and approaches.
In this forum, APAL founder Ming Poon and dramaturg Dana Liu will take us through their efforts of setting up residency programmes for Asian artists while taking on the notion of translocalism as a guiding force in performing arts and arts-making. To deepen the conversation, Singapore producer and dramaturg Fezhah Maznan joins us as discussant, with insights to independent peripheral projects that give voice and expression to minority artists in Singapore.
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