Dramaturgies of Interweaving

Erika Fischer-Lichte is Director of the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” at Freie Universität Berlin. Christel Weiler serves as Senior Adviser at the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” at Freie Universität Berlin. Torsten Jost is a researcher at the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” at Freie Universität Berlin.

PART I Sketching Designs for Unique Encounters 1 The Tjunta Trail: Cross-Cultural Dramaturgy in Australian Place-Making 2 Diagrammatic Dramaturgies: Navigations between Theory, Disfiguration, and Movement PART II Interlacing Archival Threads 3 No(H) To Trio A: Interweaving Dramaturgies for a Performative Exhibition of Yvonne Rainer’s Work 4 Performance Community in an Age of Reenactment: Takao Kawaguchi’s About Kazuo Ohno and the Conversation with Ghosts PART III Unraveling Productions 5 Speaking Black: Tonya Pinkins’s Mother Courage 6 Catalyst and Conduit: A Call for the Bicultural Dramaturge INTERLUDE A Durus Arabij/Arabic Lessons B Arabic Lessons: Stämme/שורשים/جذور C Heiliger Franz/St. Francis: Notes from a Playwright’s Perspective PART IV Entangling Diverse Audiences 7 Encountering a "Theater of (Inter-)Singularity": Transformations and Rejections of Shifting Institutional Dramaturgies in Contemporary German Theater 8 Yael Ronen: Devising Dramaturgy for an Interwoven World PART V Unfolding Alternatives 9 Alternative Dramaturgies Informed by a Deaf and Disability Perspective 10 Dramaturgies of In-Betweenness: Iranian Theater and Performance Art since the 1970s PART VI Tailoring Textual Material 11 Learning with Broken Words: Directing Plastic Rose by Shogo Ota with Collaborative Dramaturgy 12 The Emergence of Co-Dramaturgy: Arthur Miller, Satyajit Ray, and Thomas Ostermeier Encounter Ibsen Coda: Performers and Time: The Five Stages of Waiting