note on dramaturgy

So maybe instead of huge systems and thousand of collaborations and subtle actions, maybe dramaturgical work is in recognizing these zones of nothingness, zones where things are yet to happen, where there are possibilities for something to grow. Maybe instead of establishing conditions for this task to function smoothly and productively, dramaturgical work must take these fields - choreography, direction, performance - somewhere, where they mind find some answers.

Now don't take this as a kind of illusion or a dreamy escape from the thing itself. Everything that I am saying is much more oriented in the direction of what the performance could be, instead of limiting ourselves at a very early stage, for instance, either to a strictly direct or to a strictly cooperative approach. Or perhaps we can be really radical and approach the spectator in such a way that we might collaborate on an equal level? And here, I think that this idea or Ranciere's concept of working with spectator activity again becomes an interesting point of departure for dramaturgical work. Not to say that art is not already working with it; a lot of great art engages with spectator activity. But the question is: how do you invite? And if you invite, are you interested in what the spectator brings to the work or have you invited them simply because you feel lonely, need company, or want to manipulate?

Janez Jansa/ Self-interview: from Dramaturgy to Dramaturgical