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Tess Michaelson is a writer, teacher, and multidisciplinary artist based in New York who works at the intersection of text and performance. Her writing has appeared in motor dance journal, the Brooklyn Rail, Cost of Paper, and Chicago Review, among other publications. Tess studied English at Stanford University and earned her MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University. She is currently at work on an improvisational novel.

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"What is dramaturgy anyway?"

"What is dramaturgy, anyway?" This was the inciting question to the 1994 issue of Theaterschrift called β€œOn Dramaturgy.” The question of how to define dramaturgy, especially in a dance context,...

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