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Ilya Vidrin
My dramaturgical practice focuses on supporting cohesive experimentation with directors, choreographers, technologists, and other makers in devised process. From incorporating emerging technology into performance to fostering meaningful audience-performer interaction, I view dramaturgy as a hybrid role including facilitator, active witness, sounding board, and professional confidant. My approach centers on identifying, articulating, and realizing relevant criteria and aesthetic standards - acknowledging that these may change from production to production and from year to year. I aim to support ethical collaboration by establishing shared vocabulary, cultivating safe group norms, and surfacing generative questions together. Below are examples of recent projects I have supported, including the work of Raja Feather Kelly, Brian Brooks, Lins Derry, Jessi Stegall, Melinda Lopez, Mariel Pettee, Shura Baryshnikov and Danielle Davidson, and faculty of the Northeastern Theatre Department.
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