Tracing Creation: The Director’s Notebook as Genetic Document of the Postdramatic Creative Process

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In 2012 he obtained his doctoral degree at Ghent University with a dissertation entitled Verknoopte tijd, verfrommelde geschiedenis (Entangled Time, Crumpled History). Inspired by the philosophy of history of Walter Benjamin, this research dealt with the politics of memory of performative strategies (re-enactment, historical montage, testimony) in historic and contemporary (cultural) performance. He publishes on these themes. Besides his academic research, he has been a theory coach at the dance school P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels, since 2012), a freelance editor and is the content coordinator of the Master in Drama at KASK / School of arts.Edith Cassiers obtained a Bachelor in Dutch -Theater, Film and Literature Studies and a Masters degree in Theater and Film Studies at the University of Antwerp. In 2010, she worked as an assistant-dramaturge for Jan Fabre within the production of Prometheus Landscape II. Since 2011 she has been working as a theater scientist for Laboratorium/Troubleyn, studying artistic methodologies of the performer of the twenty-first century, including the acting method of Jan Fabre. Currently, she is a fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) and preparing a PhD within the project 'The Didascalic Imagination' about contemporary theatrical notebooks.Thomas Crombez studied Philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Theatre Studies at the Universiteit Antwerpen. He obtained his doctorate with a dissertation on 'The Antitheatre of Antonin Artaud: An examination of aesthetic transgression, applied to the contemporary theatre ' (2006). He is currently teaching at the Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunst in Antwerp (Royal Academy of Fine Arts) and at Sint Lucas Antwerpen. Current courses include Philosophy of Art, Theatre History, and Performance and Avant-garde. See: www.zombrec.be.Luk Van den Dries studied Germanic Philology at the University of Brussels and started his academic career in 1980 with a research fellowship at the University of Brussels. In 1991 he obtained his PhD on The Performance History of Heiner Müller in Belgium and was appointed as an assistant Professor at the University of Antwerp. Currently he is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and head of the department of Literature. His major work on the corpus of the Flemish artist Jan Fabre (Imschoot, 2004), has been translated into seven languages. He is the author of several books and articles investigating the development of theatre in Flanders and the Netherlands. He is the co-supervisor of the FWO-supported research project The Didascalic Imagination.