DRamaturge a creative project using the anitafrika method

An online residency

The Anitafrika Method Dramaturgy consists of 10 hours of intensive dramaturgy that can be adapted to suit various formats, such as five two-hour sessions or ten hour-long sessions, online or in person. During the residency, d’bi.young uses the Anitafrika Method to dramaturge an emerging or newly emerged writing in poetry, theatre, film etc. This process utilises the method's nine fundamental principles in a decolonial approach to script analysis and cultivation.

The Anitafrika Method is an integrative, critically-reflexive, decolonial-Black-feminist framework created by d’bi.young anitafrika. It is a practitioner-centred-arts-based intervention that nurtures self-transformation, creative expression & community embodiment. Fundamental principles of the praxis are Self-Knowledge, Politics, Orality, Language, Rhythm, Urgency, Sacredness, Integrity and Experience, explored through the Physical, Emotional, Mental, Creative, Exchange, Spiritual, Community, Energy, and Earth Bodies.

Rooted in the emancipatory Dub Poetry & Dubbin Theatre that emerged out of Jamaica in the 1980s, the method is directly influenced by Anita Stewart’s 1985 Drama School dissertation entitled Dubbin Theatre: Moving Dub Poetry Into a Theatrical Realm. Practitioners move through an integrative psychosomatic process of introspection; metabolising past experiences of pain while applying critical reflexivity to deepen awareness of self and how one positions socio-culturally and politically, in relation to others. These discoveries catalyse personal and professional growth that culminate in biomyth artistic formulations.

d’bi.young anitafrika is an artist, activist and academic who is committed to creating and nurturing art that ritualises acts of transformation from violence inflicted upon the people and the planet.

residency DETAILS

Date: Chosen by the Practitioner

Duration: 10 hrs

Platform: Online

Fee: $3000USD

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