This Saturday, June 1 the Festival TransAmériques gives us a sneak preview of the book conceived and co-edited by Jessie Mill and Émilie Martz-Kuhn and put to book by Daniel Canty and the Studio Tagteam and published in collaboration by the FTA and éditions du passage: le Curieux manuel de dramaturgie pour le théâtre, la danse et autres matières à changement.
This book of applied dramaturgies, imagined from the transnational experience of the Cliniques Dramaturgiques brings together contributions, considerations, and perhaps advice from authors from four continents.
Jessie Mill and Émilie Martz-Kuhn’s wish: “to bring together a plurality of voices, perspectives and dramaturgical practices in a vade mecum small enough to slip into a pocket, a notebook to scribble in, crumple up, read and reread in the shadow of the rehearsal room.” 4 years later, this project comes to life.
In this unique Curieux manuel all the definitions of dramaturgy find their place : from the living structure of a work to the multiple dimensions that comprise it and hold it together. Nearly forty voices are brought together to share an amazing range of approaches, ways of doing things, ideas, creative narratives, stories and accounts of the creative process. Le Curieux manuel de dramaturgie pour le théâtre, la danse et autres matières à changement is designed for artists, craftspeople, students, teachers and lovers of the living arts.
Moved by the invitation and confidence of Jessie Mill and Émilie Martz-Kuhn, our dramaturg Sara Vanderieck has agreed to translate her dramaturgical practice into written and published words for the first time.
Her voice will speak to you from this book together with Filippo Andreatta, Mathieu Bouvier, Loïs Brown, Martha Luisa Hernández Cadenas, Daniel Canty, Aurélie Charon, Michel F. Côté, Lindsay Katsitsakatste Delaronde, Mélanie Dumont, Martin Faucher, Riccardo Fazi, Cynthia Fleury, Dalie Giroux, Maryse Goudreau, Samuel Hackwill, Yohayna Hernández, Sarah Israel, Emmanuelle Jetté, Emily Johnson, Carole Karemera, Lindsay Lachance, Catherine Lalonde-Massecar, Mylène Lauzon, Catherine Lavoie-Marcus, Julien Lefort-Favreau, Camille Louis, Mathilde Maillard, Stéphane Martelly, Émilie Martz-Kuhn, Jessie Mill, Katya Montaignac, Coman Poon, Pierrot Ross-Tremblay, Felwine Sarr, Élise Simonet, Kouam Tawa, Nate Yaffe and Jacob Wren.
The official release in bookshops will take place on September 4th in Quebec and a little later in Europe.
