In het weekend van 25 en 26 september geeft Jochem Naafs een lezing en een workshop in Tanzfabrik Berlin tijdens het Perfect Wedding festival. Voor meer informatie bezoek de website van Tanzfabrik Berlin of neem contact met hem op.
The weekend of September 25th and 26th Jochem Naafs will give a lecture and teach a workshop on process dramaturgy at Tanzfabrik Berlin during the Perfect Wedding festival. For more information visit the website of Tanzfabrik Berlin: www.tanzfabrik-berlin.de or contact him.
“Processing Dance – Relations in the creative process” – Public Lecture & Workshop
25.9._Sa_13 h_Public Lecture_25. & 26.9._Sa/So_Workshop_in Englisch
What does affect you when you are making a performance? Is it the performer or the technician you’re working with, or are you also influenced by the technology itself, by the chair in the studio, by the sounds from outside? Every process has its dramaturgy, its time based story with interacting actors. During this workshop we will become aware of the human and non-human “actors“ that are working with or against us in a creative process. We will work on a small becoming-performance. By being aware of the relations between makers, objects and questions in various phases of the process we will be able to process, and then stimulate the practice of others. The workshop will start with a public lecture that is used as a theoretical framework for processing dance in process.
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Recently I published my master thesis Theatre Studies online. It is available in Dutch on Igitur, the publishing and archiving service of the Utrecht University. You can access it here: studenttheses.library.uu.nl. A revisited version in which I propose a way to use the analytical method as a dramaturg will be available soon via the Utrecht School of the Arts.
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Biografie Jochem Naafs
Jochem Naafs studeerde Nieuwe Media en Digitale Cultuur (MA) en Theaterwetenschap (MA) aan de Universiteit Utrecht. Momenteel werkt hij als onderzoeker voor het Lectoraat theatrale maakprocessen (Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht) en als docent voor de Universiteit Utrecht (MA Sturing Creatief Ontwerp). Hij richt zich daarbij met name op het transdisciplinaire maakproces van theater en dans. Daarnaast werkt hij als freelance (dans)dramaturg en schrijver. Op dit moment werkt hij als dramaturg bij Stut Theater en de afgelopen jaren werkte hij als dramaturg met theatercollectief Powerboat, live artist Michael Pinchbeck en choreograaf Jack Gallagher. Hij schreef o.a. artikelen voor Springdance, Danslab en Dansateliers. Op het moment werkt hij aan een artikel over de dramaturgische positie in het maakproces van hedendaagse performance.
www.playfulperformance.nl
jochem [at] bit-dansdramaturgie.nl
Biography Jochem Naafs
Jochem Naafs studied New Media Studies (MA) and Theatre Studies (MA) at the Utrecht University. Currently he is working as a researcher for the Research group Theatre making processes (Utrecht School of the Arts, HKU) and as a lecturer for the Utrecht University (MA Creative Development). His focus is on the transdisciplinary making process of theatre and dance. Furthermore he works as a freelance (dance) dramaturge and writer. Currently he works as a dramaturg for Stut Theater and in the last years he worked with theatre collective Powerboat, live artist Michael Pinchbeck and choreographer Jack Gallagher. He wrote articles for Sprindance, Danslab and Dansateliers ao. He is now working on an article on the dramaturgical position in the creative process of contemporary performance.
www.playfulperformance.nl
jochem [at] bit-dansdramaturgie.nl
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I think about my role of the dance dramaturge in the creative making process. On which moment do I have to act in what way? Do I have to ask questions and what kind of questions should I ask? Do I have to tell what I see or rather what I miss? Should I suggest and what would I like to reach with these suggestions? Can I introduce theory into the process or should we really start working in the studio now?
Currently I work on a translation of my theoretical research on creative making processes into the practice of the dramaturge. In principle you can divide any making process into phases. An artist can go one or several times through any phase during a creative making process. As a dramaturge you go through these phases as well. But, more interesting, you can try and track in which phase the artist is. And then see how you can use this knowledge as a dramaturge.
As a dance dramaturge you don’t work for a choreographer, but with a choreographer. You are making together. Dramaturgy is not only there in the performance; it plays a role during the entire making process. Dance dramaturgy is processing dance: it is both being in the process and dealing with the process.
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