ODA: Opplevelsesbasert Dramaturgisk Analyse – fra tekst til regikonsept
This chapter addresses a methodology for dramaturgical analysis and conceptualisation which I have developed from teaching in the subjects ‘Theatre production’ and ‘Dramaturgy and conceptualisation’ at NTNU. Method development has, for a long time, arisen in response to the students’ need for a step-by-step process, where they learn to create their own concepts with sufficient artistic sustainability to be realised in a given context. First, I present various tools and theoretical traditions in the field of dramaturgical analysis and conceptualisation, with contributions from both the Nordic and international field. Then I present and discuss the development of ODA methodology. I address how the students’ response has contributed to further development of the method through some examples. And finally, I present how this work represents an alternative, step-by-step methodological approach in the field, focusing particularly on a phenomenological perspective: embodiment, materiality and imagination. Conceptualising is about moving an impulse or text from one universe to another that you create yourself. The method has therefore proven to be fruitful in other creative contexts where this is a focus.