Dramaturgies of Interweaving: Engaging Audiences in an Entangled World

Dramaturgies of Interweaving explores present-day dramaturgies that interweave performance cultures in the fields of theater, performance, dance, and other arts.

Merging strategies of audience engagement originating in different cultures, dramaturgies of interweaving are creative methods of theater and art-making that seek to address audiences across cultures, making them uniquely suitable for shaping people’s experiences of our entangled world. Presenting in-depth case studies from across the globe, spanning Australia, China, Germany, India, Iran, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Vietnam, the US, and the UK, this book investigates how dramaturgies of interweaving are conceived, applied, and received today. Featuring critical analyses by scholars--as well as workshop reports and artworks by renowned artists--this book examines dramaturgies of interweaving from multiple locations and perspectives, thus revealing their distinct complexities and immense potential.

Ideal for scholars, students, and practitioners of theater, performance, dramaturgy, and devising, Dramaturgies of Interweaving opens up an innovative perspective on today’s breathtaking plurality of dramaturgical practices of interweaving in theater, performance, dance, and other arts, such as curation and landscape design.

Erika Fischer-Lichte is director of the International Research Center ＂Interweaving Performance Cultures＂ at Freie Universität Berlin. Christel Weiler joined the faculty of the Theater and Performance Studies Department at Freie Universität Berlin in 1996, together with Erika Fischer-Lichte. From 2008 to 2017, she held the position of Program Director at the International Research Center ＂Interweaving Performance Cultures,＂ where she now serves as Senior Adviser. Torsten Jost is a researcher at the International Research Center ＂Interweaving Performance Cultures＂ at Freie Universität Berlin.