Ecologies of dramaturgy in dance creation: a conversation

• Autor(a) principal: Montesi, Vanessa
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Baird, Haley, Dugan, Dana, Nye, Matthew-Robin, Scialom, Melina, Scott Martone Donde, Christian, Willkie, Angélique
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/56077
• topic: dramaturgy; ecology; embodiment; dance creation; agency

Angélique Willkie is a a Jamaican-born, Black, cisgender woman dancer and dramaturg. Two parallel interests have gradually emerged over the course of her professional career—the performer’s contribution to the creative process, and the dynamics of the necessarily collaborative operation that is contemporary choreography. The interview with this artist-scholar explores her experiences in the creative process of the dance performance, Confession Publique, for which she occupies the triadic role of dramaturg, dancer and auto-ethnographic researcher. It is a dialogical conversation amongst interdisciplinary artists and researchers of the Dramaturgical Ecologies project (housed at Concordia University, CAN). Beyond an interview, this polyvocal project—centred around themes of agency, dramaturgy, embodiment, and movement—migrated from the physical to the virtual in response to the biopolitical reconfiguration engendered by the COVID-19 pandemic. This transition activated tensions and resonances in the dialogue. The result takes the form of a reflective, performative text crafted through a collective thinking process.