Compellingly narrates the urgent craft of dramaturgical creativity in dance with this graceful account of a decades-long collaboration with multi-modal artist Ralph Lemon. Essential reading for understanding how art is made, and why it matters.
Thomas F. DeFrantz, Duke University Draws theater and dance, dramaturgical practice and theory into exhilarating new relationships. By creating these partnerships and patterns for our elusive field, Profeta has enriched the way I think about, discuss, and, indeed, go about my own work.
Catherine Sheehy, Yale School of Drama and Yale Repertory Theater Finally an answer to that vexed question, 'What is dance dramaturgy?' This is a brilliantly nuanced account of a new role in contemporary performance, drawing on an extended collaboration but relevant for the entire field.
Susan Manning, Northwestern University This deeply introspective, exquisitely researched book advances the field.
Dance Chronicle Lays out the bigger historical picture as well as the nitty-gritty realities of a working dance dramaturg. There is also much to think about in terms of developing a dramaturgical point of view as a tool that could be useful for the whole team of collaborators, including the dancers.
Dance International Dramaturgy in Motion should be read by everyone with a stake in this gorgeously troublesome endeavor we call performance. On every page of this deeply generous work there is something to provoke, to reassure, to challenge, to question
and always, to savor.
Claudia La Rocco, School of Visual Arts, New York City In five compelling chapters
text and language, research, audience, movement, interculturality
Dramaturgy in Motion provides a practical resource, equally valuable for theatre dramaturgs and devisers as it will be for dance dramaturgs and choreographers.
DD Kugler, Simon Fraser University