A workshop on dance dramaturgy and the creative process for choreographers, their artistic collaborators, active dramaturges and anyone interested in starting a dramaturgical practice.

The starting point for this workshop is the idea that as a choreographer you don’t necessarily need a dramaturg, but it is good if you develop a dramaturgical reflection on your artistic practice.

The workshop offers practical tools and exercises for participants to reflect on their own creative process and its possible transformation.

Using the graphic symbols of the cross, circle and labyrinth, we will discuss the essential poles of the creative process: perception, formation, intuition, experience.

In this workshop we will focus on perception (what to pay attention to), articulation (how to express yourself best to get what you are looking for), and interdisciplinary practices: we will look at how artists from other disciplines work and how we can creatively “translate” their ways of working into our own practices.

Through practical and physical exercises, we will explore how playwrights and dramaturges can engage with the process as witnesses, dialogue partners, and “editors” of the material. Among other things, we will focus on the importance of rhythm and transitions (transitions) in the editing process.

The ultimate goal of the workshop is to gain a refreshed perspective on one’s own creative process and to acquire new working methodologies, also by discovering the diversity of other participants’ practices.