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The mrpj.org catalog includes over sixty issues of the Movement Research Performance Journal, exploring topics related to dance and performance at the intersection of urgent conversations on gender and sexuality, environmental crisis, race and ethnicity, technology and media, settler colonialism, neoliberalism—as well as tactics of liberation and revolt. Each issue has been created by a team of dance and performance artists and arts workers, who together create the discourse that shapes the field in which they practice.

As we launch mrpj.org, we are uploading the entire catalog in batches. Issues #1–#10, along with the current issue (#60), are available now. Each week we will be adding more content (between now and September, 2025) until all issues are available online!

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Issue #61

Summer 2025

Dramaturgy

Issue #61

Summer 2025

Dramaturgy

Theories of dance dramaturgy can be found in a growing body of literature on the field (see our incomplete reading list in this issue). But for Issue #61 of the Movement Research Performance Journal the editors decided stay in the not-knowing by inviting contributions from those whose work touches on dance dramaturgy with curiosity, anxiety, anarchy, as well as a conviction for the intimacy it requires and a resistance to its history of institutional/state authority. At the heart of the issue is a special section by Contributing Editor Ligia Lewis. Across Lewis’ works there are not only a range of dramaturgs, but the role of dramaturgy shifts and morphs in relationship to the differing works and over time.

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