3 points to dramaturgy defintition

From the description of Peter Stamer's Coaching Project at ImpulsTanz

On Dramaturgy And Other Artistic Practices

Dramaturgy deals with 3 main questions:
1. How does the artist transform his/her concept into practice?
2. What aesthetic strategies does the artist make use of in the art work?
3. How does the art work communicate to the audience?

I think that's a very solid reduction that I might steal.

Also very good, from Jeroen Peeters & Martin Nachbar's Coaching project description:

Physical dramaturgy seeks to explore and exhaust the realm of meaning triggered by moving bodies on stage: it insists on analysing one’s own practice and stimulating an awareness of the underpinnings and contexts of one’s work.

I like the articulation of "stimulating an awareness of the underpinnings" - this is something I think a lot about and often times feel is lacking in performance I watch in Toronto (probably other places too - but most I see things in Toronto.)

Thanks Ben for asking me to look at the ImPulsTanz site this year.