A Performer’s Dramaturgy - Workshop

Even Minn and Teo Ala-Ruona are a duo working with performance and trans-feminist speculative fiction. Minn works mainly as a dramaturg and Ala-Ruona as a performer.

In this workshop they will share the methods and practices that they have developed over the years of working as a duo and collaborating on the creation of a performer’s dramaturgy. Participants will write performative texts based on somatofictional practices and work on them in dramaturg-performer pairs. The dramaturgs will act as readers helping the performers edit and stage their text, giving suggestions and asking questions. In this way we will model a mini version of the collaborative creative process leading up to a performance. Ala-Ruona and Minn will offer tools and assistance as guides in this process.

The workshop is the second out of four workshops that aims to inspire artists in their practice and to contribute to a nuanced discussion on dance dramaturgy in Denmark.The workshop series is put together by dance dramaturg Ida-Elisabeth Larsen and is realized in collaboration with Dansehallerne.

Participants will write performative texts based on somatofictional practices and work on them in dramaturg-performer pairs. The dramaturgs will act as readers helping the performers edit and stage their text, giving suggestions and asking questions. In this way we will model a mini version of the collaborative creative process leading up to a performance. Ala-Ruona and Minn will offer tools and assistance as guides in this process.

PARTICIPANTS ARE KINDLY ASKED TO BRING THE FOLLOWING
Notebook + pen (or any other doodling preferences)
There will be refreshments, but please bring your own lunch
Comfortable clothes to move in

TIME AND PLACE28h-30nd of September, 2023 at BYENS HUS, Stændertorvet 1, 4000 Roskilde
9:30-16:30 (incl. lunchbreak) Starting 11.00 the first day so travellers can join easily.

Members of Dansehallerne may receive a 50% reduction on the workshop fee (first come first served). Reserve your spot through DDSKS Further Education here.

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP SERIES ON DANCE DRAMATURGY During 2023-24, 6 European dramaturgs are invited to Denmark to facilitate workshops in Copenhagen, Roskilde and Thy.
Through 4 practice-oriented workshops, and with themes such as positionality, feminism, trans-speculative fiction, ecology and exhibition, this workshop series aims to inspire artists in their practice and to contribute to a nuanced discussion on dance dramaturgy in Denmark.

The workshop series is put together by dance dramaturg Ida-Elisabeth Larsen and is realized in collaboration with Efteruddannelsen and Dansehallerne.

Even Minn (he/him or they/them) is a writer and dramaturg working in the fields of performance art and literature. They are fascinated by the dancing divine animal body and our shared ancestry with other cellular lifeforms. Their practice is informed by trans feminism and somatics. At the moment they write prose on the non-linear experience of time. Works include Äitini on alien – a radio essay (Yle 2018), Deep Time Trans -a performance (Baltic Circle Festival Helsinki 2020) and Sometimes a verb, sometimes a Noun – an exhibition review (No Niin magazine 2021). Teo Ala-Ruona (he/him) is a Helsinki based performance artist, whose work focuses on speculative somatic fiction in forms of performances and texts. He explores topics of sex, queer ecology, toxicity and gender, and looks for ways to re-define language and narratives telling about pleasure and intimacy on a toxic Earth. By often using his own body as a site for various speculative stories to take place, he experiments on how through fiction he can transform himself, as well as the perspectives from which others look at his body. Ala-Ruona’s work has recently been shown in Warehouse9 (Copenhagen), Drifts-festival (Helsinki), Jason Platform (Copenhagen), Takomo-theater (Helsinki), Baltic Circle -festival (Helsinki), Bangkok Biennial (Bangkok) and NAVEL, Gas-gallery and Human Resources (Los Angeles).