RISE OF THE TECHNATURGS
What is a technician? What is a dramaturg? What is a technaturg?
I have coined the term technaturg (technician/dramaturg) based on practical exploration of being a performance maker who often is implementing and operating tech.
The workshop will offer a perspective on what it means to be a technaturg, some basic technical skills and some basic dramaturgical skills with the ultimate aim of getting performance makers to think about tech from different perspectives when creating performance work.
I have been working as a performance maker for over 10 years, sometimes as a performer, sometimes as a technician, sometimes a dramaturg, sometimes as other things. Performance maker is a term that seems to cover most bases: making performance and making performances happen.
This is a workshop for anyone in the performance making world: performers, directors, dramaturgs, technicians, operators, light designers, sound designers, set/costume designers, producers.
