Expanded Dramaturgy BOOK RELEASE Discount Code: “Dramaturgy at Work” by Bojana Cvejić

It is with huge pleasure that we announce the release of the Expanded Dramaturgy book series’ first volume:

Dramaturgy at Work: Threading Through Experimental Dance, Performance and Theater

By Bojana Cvejić, Routledge 2027. (Expanded Dramaturgy volume editor: Pil Hansen)

We invite you to Apply the 30% launch discount code DaW30 in the Routledge shop to secure your copy and/or ask your library to order the book. We are thrilled that dramaturgy, dance, and performance creation instructors are adopting this book for course use. If you are curious too, then read on for a short description.

Starting out from the author’s extensive practice as a dramaturg and educator, this book identifies and elucidates the varied selection of dramaturgical tools that have been used in the experimental practices of contemporary dance, theater, and performance in Europe since the early 2000s. 

In order to trace the elements of dramaturgy that are at work in the creation and production of a performance, this book focuses on how performances “work” dramaturgically. It illuminates questions, work processes, situations, and decision‑making through stories that unravel the making of a performance. Drawing on scenes across various contexts in Europe and beyond, with their self‑organized platforms, magazines, and workshops, this book ventriloquizes a multiplicity of voices, of more than 40 dance‑makers and theater makers, performers, dramaturgs, and artists from other disciplines. It understands dramaturgy as larger, more informal and diffuse than the work of the dramaturg alone. Structured around four dramaturgical clusters—material, methods and procedures, operations, and social relations—this book proposes a nonlinear framework through which creation processes can be examined. These clusters address material resistance, heuristic inquiry, audience‑probing operations, and the dramatization of social relations in collaborative work.

This is a fresh and enlightening book for anyone doing, discussing, or thinking about dramaturgy, at university level, in professional practice, or beyond.

Reviewers describe this book as “an essential resource for anyone interested in creating live performance” (Jonathan Burrows); “a beautifully written story about dramaturgy at work” within “collaborative friendship[s] among … independent yet connected individuals who, by sharing the world, continue to create community” (Agata Juniku).

Also, please keep an eye out for future volumes of Expanded Dramaturgy from authors across the world writing about simulation, speculation and futurity in European dramaturgy; dance dramaturgies of aging across Asian and Euro/American dance cultures; theatres of migritude in dramaturgies of African futures; and Instruction-led Dramaturgy with ZU-UK.

Thank you for your attention,

Expanded Dramaturgy Book Series co-editors, past and present: Pil Hansen, Bruce Barton, Maaike Bleeker, Serap Erincin, and Laura Louise Shultz.

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