Making Dance in Real Life: Dramaturgy for Dancemakers
Schedule
Mon Jun 01 2026 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
The Dance Complex | Cambridge, MA
About this Event
About this Workshop, led by Laila J. Franklin & Kate Gow:
What does it mean to engage a dramaturg for a dance project? Is it possible to be your own dramaturg? What even IS dramaturgy? This workshop will contextualize dramaturgy as a practice, its fairly recent intersections and interventions in dance, and propose tangible tools to support its integration into your own practice. We will chat, write, and collage. Please bring paper, a writing utensil, and, if accessible and available to you, a tablet or laptop (there will be an extra tablet available for shared use).
This workshop takes place in Studio 7, on the ground floor of The Dance Complex.
About Laila Franklin:
Laila J. Franklin is an independent, multidisciplinary dance artist based in Boston, MA by way of Washington, DC. Featured as one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” (2024), Laila's work is interested in meta-commentary, deconstruction, and bits, approaching themes surrounding the human experience with complexity, nuance, curiosity, and humor. Her work has been commissioned by Brown University, Salem State University, and Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and shared through Motion State Arts (RI), The Philadelphia Fringe Festival (PA), Public Space One (IA), Loculus Collective’s Sideways Door Festival (MA), Cotuit Dance Festival (MA), School of Contemporary Dance and Thought (MA), and Movement Research at The Judson Church (NY). Her performance credits include projects with Miguel Gutierrez, Stephanie Miracle, and Melinda Jean Myers. Laila holds an MFA from the University of Iowa, a BFA from The Boston Conservatory, and is a proud alumna of Duke Ellington School of the Arts.
About Kate Gow:
Kate Gow is a dancer, technologist, dramaturg, and poet who delights in storytelling, ritual, and process. She is the Creative Producer and archivist for The Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces and her literary work has been published in HAD, F(r)iction Literary Magazine, and Psaltery and Lyre, among others. She is lucky to have worked with Laila J. Franklin for over ten years, and will keep doing so as long as Laila keeps asking.
Where is it happening?
The Dance Complex, 536 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 17.85 to USD 28.52
