How Little is Enough? Porous & Embracing Dramaturgy for Transformative Encounters
The article gives an insight into the dramaturgical tools that are applied in the site specific and participatory performance Island, that was performed in Hrísey, an island north off the coast of Iceland in 2020. The project is a part of the artistic PhD research How Little is Enough? Sustainable M...
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cropenlibhum:10.16995/jer.8546 2024-06-09T07:47:10+00:00 How Little is Enough? Porous & Embracing Dramaturgy for Transformative Encounters Önnudóttir, Steinunn Knúts 2022 http://dx.doi.org/10.16995/jer.8546 https://jer.openlibhums.org/article/8546/galley/22359/download/ unknown Open Library of the Humanities https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Journal of Embodied Research volume 5, issue 1 ISSN 2513-8421 journal-article 2022 cropenlibhum https://doi.org/10.16995/jer.8546 2024-05-16T14:08:47Z The article gives an insight into the dramaturgical tools that are applied in the site specific and participatory performance Island, that was performed in Hrísey, an island north off the coast of Iceland in 2020. The project is a part of the artistic PhD research How Little is Enough? Sustainable Methods of Performance for Transformative Encounters, at Malmö Theatre Academy, University of Lund, that explores sustainable methods of creating transformative encounters with an audience through participatory and site-specific artworks, with a particular focus on how minimal and sustainable the framework for the encounter can be. The article asks what dramaturgical tools can create condition and provide triggers for transformation through minimal means and introduces two dramaturgical tools, POROSITY and EMBRACE, that can be understood as enablers for transformative experiences. While Cathy Turner who coined the term porous dramaturgy, uses these two terms to describe the same tool, this article argues that porosity and embrace have separate functions. The video unpacks the distinction between these dramaturgical tools and disseminates how they appear and can be understood in the performance, Island. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Hrísey Open Library of Humanities (OLH) Journal of Embodied Research 5 1 |
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The article gives an insight into the dramaturgical tools that are applied in the site specific and participatory performance Island, that was performed in Hrísey, an island north off the coast of Iceland in 2020. The project is a part of the artistic PhD research How Little is Enough? Sustainable Methods of Performance for Transformative Encounters, at Malmö Theatre Academy, University of Lund, that explores sustainable methods of creating transformative encounters with an audience through participatory and site-specific artworks, with a particular focus on how minimal and sustainable the framework for the encounter can be. The article asks what dramaturgical tools can create condition and provide triggers for transformation through minimal means and introduces two dramaturgical tools, POROSITY and EMBRACE, that can be understood as enablers for transformative experiences. While Cathy Turner who coined the term porous dramaturgy, uses these two terms to describe the same tool, this article argues that porosity and embrace have separate functions. The video unpacks the distinction between these dramaturgical tools and disseminates how they appear and can be understood in the performance, Island. |
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How Little is Enough? Porous & Embracing Dramaturgy for Transformative Encounters |
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