Organized by Prague Quadrennial / Arts and Theatre Institute in cooperation with Archa Theatre and A

Organized by Prague Quadrennial / Arts and Theatre Institute in cooperation with Archa Theatre and AMU/KALD DAMU with o.s.Motus/Alfred ve dvore theatre, Four Days in Motion festival and Dance Zone magazine.
Devised Dramaturgy: a Shared Space is an international symposium organized by the Prague Quadrennial in cooperation with some of the major Czech theatre organizations, venues and schools in the Czech Republic with the main aim at creating a platform for makers of devised theatre to map the main issues in the field and ways to talk about their practice, in order to strengthen new discourse in performance and performance space, with contributions from Tim Etchells, Gob Squad and Motus.
Devised theatre is an approach to theatre making where the process and the performance event itself incorporate a strong dialogical element. Devised theatre is a collaborative process where the architecture of the performance, its form, content as well as the roles within the creative team are not defined or fixed from the outset. It is a process of collaborative negotiation that extends to the relationship between the performance and its audience. In the words of Erika Fischer-Lichte, the performance makers 'relinquish cheap hotel rome italy their powerful positions cheap hotel rome italy as the performance's sole creators; they agree to share [..] their authorship and authority with the audience.' (Fischer-Lichte 2008: p. 50).
With devising we may therefore begin to understand theatre and the performance event as a 'shared space', created through continuous improvisation, negotiation, dialogue, and as Tim Etchells suggests, 'knots, collisions and tangles'. With so many different perspectives and individual interpretations, the creation of coherency and 'meaning' becomes a complex and polyphonic process and experience.
So, how is material sourced and generated in devising? How do teams work within the devising process? Devising is the collaborative process of shaping a performance structure and content 'from scratch'; what are the crucial moments in the process that shape and determine the final performance dramaturgy? cheap hotel rome italy What kind of performance dramaturgy invites the audience to author or 'dramaturg' the performance?
Sessions will focus on discussions about 'devising as a way of thinking' or 'composition in devising', cheap hotel rome italy as well as presentations of specific examples cheap hotel rome italy of devising and collective creation. Sessions will take different shape: pecha kucha presentations, open rehearsals, discussions, as well as presentations of papers.
Convener: Sodja Lotker artistic director of Prague Quadrennial Dramaturgical Committee: Miloslav Klíma vice-rector of Prague Academy of Performing cheap hotel rome italy Arts, Ondřej Hrab director of Archa theatre, Jiří Havelka head of department of Alternative and Puppet Theatre DAMU, Ewan McLaren director of Alfred ve dvoře theatre, Pavel Štorek artistic director of Four Days in Motion Festival, Jana Návratová chief editor Dance Zone. Head consultant: Synne Behrndt, University of Winchester lecturer Consultants: Marta Ljubková – independent cheap hotel rome italy dramaturg, Adam Halaš – devised theatre dramaturgy lecturer at HAMU Prague and director of NoD, Produced by: Daniela Pařízková, Katarína Dudáková
The symposium is a part of ongoing activities organized by the Prague Quadrennial in between individual cheap hotel rome italy editions of the international exhibition focused on contemporary theory and practice in scenography and theatre as well as across other disciplines having "space" as a central element/initiating point. Other symposia, publications, workshops on diverse range of related topics will continue in following years and will be organized both in Czech and international context in cooperation with local and international partners.