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| 25th Biennial Conference of ICKL | |
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Nacional de Danza Clásica y Contemporánea, Mexico July 29 (Arrival Day) - August 5 (Departure Day) 2007 |
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SESSIONS Mixed session - Paper and workshop Dance dramaturgy: The “Choreographic Game” as a composition practice TOURINHO, Ligia - Brasil This mixed session – paper and workshop - has as proposition to develop a reflection and practice about the role of the body in contemporary dramaturgy and to do some notes directed to a proposition of corporal dramaturgy. It develops the idea of dramaturgy not being a literature school, but literature being a possibility of documentation of contemporary dramaturgy, what makes possible the study of dramaturgy inside literary studies, but opens precedents to possibilities of various dramaturgic structures, free from literature concepts and from characteristics of arts of the scene and of their multiple possibilities, looks, visions, considering relevant to think of dramaturgy through the body bias. The work proposes to think about the concept of dramaturgy in dance and recognizes in the Laban System a possibility of glimpsing paths and reflexive connections through a usage directed to this idea, a corporal dramaturgy, thought from the four primary movement components: body, effort, space, shape, considering their possibilities of intersection and articulation. Using Marianne Van Kerkhov thought, dramaturgy has always something to do with structures: It’s about “controlling” the whole, about developing the relation between the actors/dancers, between the volumes, the space dispositions, the rhythms, the choices of moments, the methods, etc. It’s about composition. In this way, this work discusses a proposition of composition practice called “Choreographic Game”, created by Lígia Tourinho. It´s a funny and interactive choreographic performance in a game structure and shape, where audience and dancers come together to make dances. This paper intends, in this way, to show this experimental pedagogic proposition about choreografic composition developed by the author in a Laban System perspective and in this dramaturgy perspective too. How to play The game has two kinds of players: Dance player: This player has to do what the choreographer player decides. Choreographer player: This player has to guide the dance player and to control the music. The game has two parts: 1st. part: Lígia Tourinho is the choreographer player. 2nd. part: The audience is the choreographer player. The choreographer players have: CD player, a lot of music CDs and their own sensibility and imagination. The dancer players can do some actions: walk, look at something, stop, sit, run, get up, do their own choreographic sentence, and imitate the other. The choreographer players have to guide the game by these actions.This performance has been studied and experimented by Lígia for two years. It’s being showed in Rio de Janeiro with different groups and artists. Ligia Touriho is a dancer, actress, choreographer and director. She is Master in Arts by Unicamp/ Brazil and she is doing a PHD research in the same university. Teaches courses at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro about dance fundaments and choreographic improvising and composition, using the Laban System as one of the main pillars. She had her first contact with the Laban system as an undergraduate student in Scenic Arts at State University of Campinas/Brazil with Joana Lopes e Eusébio Lobo. Participated in the Laban Conference 2002, MAM (Museum of Modern Art) – Rio de Janeiro. Attended the courses: “Studies of Movement of Rudolf Laban”, given by Juliana Moraes (CMA, Londres); “Workshop Bartenieff Fundamentals”, certificate recognized by Lims, NY, given by Regina Miranda (CMA); “The Emotional Body”, given by Michele Minnick, CMA Laban/ Bartenieff Institute – NY, at Laban Centre - Rio. Lígia was part of the 1st edition of the project Choreographic Atelier, directed by Regina Miranda, where she attended courses and participated of creation processes from Laban System. Participated with the paper “Notes about the concept of corporal dramaturgy: The contemporary scene and the poetic construction of movement” in the conference Laban for the 21st century, at Bratslava in October 2006..
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