CALL FOR PAPERS!
Embodied Dramaturgy: Liminal Movement in Dance and Theatre.
Liminality is tied to movement. In liminal spaces, nothing is fixed. This anthology examines the in-between spaces of embodied dramaturgy. We understand the role of dramaturgy, like the body, as one of in-betweenness, process, and becoming. We agree with Sarah Peters that “embodied dramaturgy acknowledges the capacity of the body to communicate meaning through physicality, presence and performativity and describes a method for engaging the body experientially in dramaturgical practice and investigation” in ways that aid guided meaning making for audiences (IATC Journal: December 2023, Issue No. 28). The body in this method becomes a site of action where the players engage experientially with context, themes, history, and rhythms of scripted, choreographed, and devised material.
We are looking for scholarship on dramaturgical approaches to the following:
• Embodiment and the Creation of Knowledge
o the body and technology
o embodied knowledge as a source of (counter)production
o psychosomatic experiential sensory approaches to dramaturgical research
• Textual Embodiment
o structures of writing about movement (how do words move?)
o how artists narrate their movement
o kinesthetic interaction with scripted material
• Embodiment in/and Space
o stage adaptability as a state of becoming
o the creation of spaces that engender embodiment
o gap spaces between that call for unique sense-making
o bodies interacting in conversation with site-specific space
• The Stories Bodies Tell
o narrative dance
o writing through the body
o tracking choreographic rhythm patterns
o theorizing story embodiment
• And more pertinent to the history, theory, and practice of embodied dramaturgy
Please send your submissions to co-editors Telory Arendell (tdarendell@missouristate.edu) and Jessica Friedman (jessica.a.friedman@gmail.com) for consideration by February 28, 2025.
Jessica Friedman