“Dramaturgy – both as a theory and a practice – is always imbricated in a network of relations. It enables and arises from collaboration, contestation and disruption.” – Peter Eckersall (2016)

Have some buzzing thoughts about our freshly launched ADN E-Zine?

Join us for Critical Responses & Discussion of ADN Re/View (Vol.1) on the 28 July 2021 at 8PM SGT!

Featuring practitioner-dramaturgs Peter Eckersall, Ness Roque and Nanako Nakajima, and led by Corrie Tan as provocateur-moderator, the online discussion will unpack key themes of tracing Asian dramaturgy, mapping the terrain and dramaturging the ‘inter’.

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✦ Join us in our quest to map dramaturgy and its practices across the globe at: https://padlet.com/asiandramaturgs/ongoingmapping

✦ Read Vol.1 at: http://bit.ly/adnre-view

Biographies

NANAKO NAKAJIMA is a scholar and dance dramaturg, and a Valeska Gert Visiting Professor 2019/20, at Freie Universitaet Berlin. Her dramaturgy work includes Mengfan Wang’s piece with aging dancers (2019) and Dance Archive Box Berlin (2020). Nanako received the 2017 Special Commendation of Elliott Hayes Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dramaturgy from the LMDA.

NESS ROQUE is a theatre and film actor, performance dramaturg and educator. She was a core member of Manila-based contemporary performance company Sipat Lawin Ensemble (2009–2018). She is part of Prodjx Artist Community, an interdisciplinary collective integrating participatory art and research practices, community engagement, and education. Ness is a MEXT scholarship recipient and is currently a graduate student at the Tokyo University of the Arts - Graduate School of Global Arts (Department of Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices). She received an Honorable Mention-Elliott Hayes Award for Outstanding Dramaturgy 2018 from the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA) for an essay on Sipat Lawin’s Gobyerno. www.nessroque.com

PETER ECKERSALL teaches at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Publications include Curating Dramaturgies (ed. with Bertie Ferdman, 2021), Machine Made Silence (ed. with Kristof van Baarle, 2020), The Routledge Companion to Theatre and Politics (ed. with Helena Grehan, 2019), New Media Dramaturgy (author with Helena Grehan and Ed Scheer, 2017), and Performativity and Event in 1960s Japan (2013). He was co-founder/dramaturg of Not Yet It’s Difficult. Recent dramaturgy includes Everything Starts from a Dot (Sachiyo Takahashi, LaMama), and Phantom Sun/Northern Drift (Alexis Destoop, Beursschouwburg, Riga Biennial).

CORRIE TAN 陳霖靈 (she/her) is a President’s Graduate Fellow in Theatre Studies on the joint Ph.D. programme between King’s College London and the National University of Singapore. Both a practitioner and researcher, her work knits together care ethics, collaborative performance practices and new articulations of performance criticism in archipelagic Southeast Asia – taking up the commitment of a critic as collaborator, archivist, facilitator and shapeshifter, with an emphasis on care, intimacy and generosity. She is contributing editor and resident critic with the Southeast Asian arts platform ArtsEquator, and has also written regularly about theatre and performance for The Guardian, The Stage, Exeunt Magazine and The Straits Times. Corrie has also cultivated long-term critical writing and dramaturgical relationships with arts practitioners and groups in Singapore and the region. www.corrie-tan.com