Dramaturgic ProcessesLaajuus (9 ECTS)

Objective

Students learn to identify and create different dramaturgic entities and they learn to organize their material so that it supports the project at hand. Students are able to construct processes from a variety of starting points, for example, a topic, community, space, or commission. Students perceive the pedagogical aspects inherent in a dramaturgic process. Students are aware of a variety standpoints for a spectators role in the performance event. Students recognizes their own characteristic ways of analyze a performance text and know how to improve them.

Content

Students hone their dramaturgic thinking. Generation of a script and the creation of a dramaturgy are explored as a multi-instrumental creative process.

The exact contents are dependent on the student’s choice of elective programme, A) Process Facilitation or B) Directing a Production. The focus of the studies may range from process observation to creating a performance. For example, students may learn how to involve a special group with the dratugic process, or they may concentrate on processing their topic towards a performance. In both modules, students desing a performance composition, which may be, for example, an audience workshop, a performative study, a collage script, or a script for process drama. Students explore interaction, formation of spatial and temporal structures and integrating a theme into the story.
Students relate to the dramaturgic processing as artistic work, but also as an everyday phenomenon, from the perspective of, for example, perceptual psychology, sociology or learning.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Students

1) participate in the classes

2) participate in the joint process

3) complete the assigned tasks

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Students

1) know the key concepts and the basics of dramaturgical thinking

2) know the foundations of dramaturgical thinking

3) advance the joint process

4) complete the assigned tasks

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Students

1) can apply dramaturgical thinking and concepts into practice

2) demonstrates ability to independent dramaturgical thinking

3) give an active, unprompted contribution to advancing the joint process

4) complete the assigned tasks

Further information

Dramaturgic Processes is a follow-up course to Fundamentals of Dramaturgy and From and Idea to a Production. The exact contents are dependent on the student’s choice of elective programme, A) Process Facilitation or B) Directing a Production.