Drawing and Performance: Creating Scenography


Humanities, Literature & Arts (General) Visual Arts Crafts, Design & Arts Communication Drama & Theater Arts



Scenographers use drawing as an expressive and communication tool in rehearsal and in performance. They use it as a record of a thought process and an instrument for reflection. Drawing allows discussion and error and serves as a register of the creative process for all involved.

This conference aims at reflecting upon the artistic and pragmatic relationship scenographers, directors and choreographers have with drawing as a device for the creation of space and time of performance and as mediator between the bodies of performers on stage and the drawer’s page.

For more information go to: www. drawingandperformance.wordpress.com/conference/

We welcome submissions on any of the following subjects:
- creative processes of scenography in theatre, dance and music;
- drawing for scenography;
- drawing as scenography;
- drawing as performance;
- drawing and body in motion;
- performer’s gesture versus drawer’s gesture;
- definitions of sceno-graphy and of the sceno-graphic;
- drawing as a collective collaborative method of scenographic creation;
- drawing as communication in scenographic creation;
- drawing in response to performance;
- incidents and absences in drawing;
- shared drawings;
- questions of drawing in pedagogy of scenography;
digital and mediated drawing.