Everything flows
When I was asked to share my thoughts on my position as a dance dramaturge, I suddenly remembered my teacher ancient languages who, in my third year of high school, quoted the philosopher Heraclitus “panta rhei”.
Everything flows. With this metaphor in mind I invite you to join me in my imagination.
Imagine the dance dramaturge as the flow. The flow meets barriers, like stones, during the journey. It has to form itself around these obstacles, embrace them. By touching the stone from different directions, participating in a form of dialogue, a certain understanding between stone and flow takes place. The stone changes the flow, but in time, the flow changes the stone likewise.
Now imagine the dance dramaturge as a drop of water in the river. One drop flies up and catches the light. A whole spectrum of colours is the result. As a dramaturge, you have to use different colours to communicate and be able to put them all together again for a complete image. For me these different colours are the multiple intelligences, as differentiated by sociologist Howard Gardner.
BIT functions as a watermill placed in the flow. It generates energy and shakes all the drops into awareness.
As a dance dramaturge, I would like to start a dialogue with a dance maker, while pushing myself to be creative with the observations or material that I gather. I wish to use different ways of communication to generate a more useful discourse for the benefit of the created work.
Biografie Lisette van Rossum
Lisette van Rossum (1987) woont in Utrecht, waar zij haar master Theatre and Contemporary Dance Studies aan het afronden is. In 2008 slaagde ze voor haar bachelor Theater-, Film- en Televisiewetenschappen aan de Universiteit Utrecht. In deze opleiding volgde Lisette de minor Kunstgeschiedenis.
Van februari tot mei 2009 liep Lisette stage bij Dansateliers te Rotterdam. Daarnaast assisteerde zij dansdramaturg Peggy Olislaegers bij het choreografie project Movinglog, dat gepresenteerd werd tijdens de Nederlandse Dansdagen in 2008. Tijdens haar bacheloropleiding werkte ze als dramaturgisch adviseur samen met Cecilia De Lima (Zero Distance, 2008), Eugenia Demeglio (You, 2007) en Tatiana Eranosyan (Eternal Valuables, 2007).
Naast haar wetenschappelijke opleiding danst Lisette al van jongs af aan. Tussen 1993 en 2009 legde zij zowel amateur- als beroepsexamens van de Royal Academy of Dance af. Lisette is nu werkzaam als docent klassiek ballet aan Het Balletcentrum te Bunnik.
In haar thesis richt Lisette zich op het communicatieproces tussen dansdramaturg en dansmaker tijdens het creatieve proces. Ze benadert dit verschijnsel vanuit een leerpsychologisch perspectief.
lisette [at] bit-dansdramaturgie.nl
Biography Lisette van Rossum
Lisette van Rossum (1987) is living in Utrecht, where she is finishing her Masters in Theatre and Contemporary Dance Studies at the Utrecht University. In 2008 she received her bachelor’s degree in Theatre, Film and Television Studies. In this bachelor program Lisette minored in Art History.
From February until May 2009 Lisette was an intern at Dansateliers in Rotterdam. During the Nederlandse Dansdagen in 2008 she assisted dance dramaturge Peggy Olisaegers with the second edition of the choreography project Movinglog. During her bachelor program Lisette worked as dramaturgical adviser with Cecilia De Lima (Zero Distance, 2008), Eugenia Demeglio (You, 2007) and Tatiana Eranosyan (Eternal Valuables, 2007).
Next to her scientific studies, Lisette has been dancing since her youth. Between 1993 and 2009 she graduated for both graded and vocational graded examinations of the Royal Academy of Dance. Nowadays Lisette is working as a classical dance teacher at Het Balletcentrum in Bunnik (near Utrecht).
For her thesis Lisette’s main focus is the communication process between dance dramaturge and dance maker in the creative process. She approaches this phenomenon from an educational psychology perspective.
lisette [at] bit-dansdramaturgie.nl
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