International conference \u201cDramaturgy \u2013 Mapping the Landscapes\u201d will take place on March 7\u20138, 2025 at the Great hall of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. This year marks the 20th anniversary of higher education in dramaturgy in Estonia, and the conference aims to explore how performing arts practitioners and theorists understand the essence of dramaturgy and the work of dramaturgs both in Estonia and beyond. What is the significance and role of dramaturgy in theatre productions, dance, and performance art, and what parallels can we draw with the world of film and television series? We will share contemporary experiences and reflect on the kind of dramaturgy education needed in the future.<\/p>\n
On the first day (March 7) we will only have Estonian presenters (directors, dramaturgs, choreographers) contextualising the meaning of dramaturgy in our contemporary practices, and the perspectives of 21st century playwriting. All presentations will be in Estonian.<\/p>\n
The conference is organised by the Theatre Department at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in cooperation with the Estonian Theatre Agency and the Estonian Directors and Dramaturgs Union. Moderator: Siret Campbell<\/p>\n 10.45 Tim Crouch<\/strong> (UK), lecture-performance <\/em>Dramaturgy and the Imagination<\/p>\n 12.15 coffee break<\/em><\/p>\n 12.45 Joachim Friedmann <\/strong>(Germany;\u00a0live online presentation), Writers\u2019 Room \u2013 Collaborative Creativity<\/p>\n 13.30 Sandra Noeth<\/strong> (Germany), To Respond, When Called: Body-based Dramaturgy as Collective Learning<\/p>\n 14.30 lunch<\/em><\/p>\n 15.45 Nicolas Rosette<\/strong> (France; live online presentation), Digital technologies at the service of dramaturgy: the Chim\u00e8res<\/em> program experiment in France, 2018\u20132023<\/p>\n 16.30 coffee break<\/em><\/p>\n 16.50 Piotr Gruszczy\u0144ski<\/strong> (Poland), The Dramatic State of Poland: Texts, Scripts, Devising<\/p>\n 17.50 Hedda Krausz Sj\u00f6gren <\/strong>(Sweden), Trajectory of a Play \u2013 from Local to Regional to International<\/p>\n 18.50<\/strong> Wrap-up<\/p>\n 19.00<\/strong> End of conference<\/p>\n"}]},{"dropdown_title":"Presentations","dropdown_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"tekstikast","page_text":" Tim Crouch, Dramaturgy and the imagination<\/strong><\/p>\n British playwright and theatre-maker Tim Crouch\u2019s 2022 play, Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel<\/em> has been described as ‘an audacious act of collective imagining’. The play voices an explicit appeal to the audience: ‘See with your ears’. This appeal to the imagination runs as a thread through Crouch\u2019s work in plays such as My Arm, An Oak Tree<\/em>, The Author<\/em>, Adler & Gibb<\/em> and Total Immediate<\/em> Collective Imminent Terrestrial Salvation<\/em>. Crouch\u2019s dramaturgy of imagination invites the audience to see what isn\u2019t there, to transform what they do see into something else, to create illusions in bare spaces. He argues that realism is an attack on the imagination. Crouch says that all his work is site-specific and that the specific site is inside the audience\u2019s head. In this Keynote, Crouch will draw on examples from his work and invite us to consider the audience\u2019s imagination as theatre’s primary collaborator.<\/p>\n
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\nThe conference is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.<\/em><\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"dropdown","which_dropdown":"hard","dropdowns":false,"hard_dropdowns":[{"dropdown_title":"Programme 8 March","dropdown_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"tekstikast","page_text":"
\n10.30 <\/strong>Introduction<\/p>\n