1st Edition

Dramaturgies of Immersion Analysing Poetics of Immersion and Emersion

Edited By Janek Szatkowski, Thomas Rosendal Nielsen Copyright 2025
196 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

196 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

196 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Dramaturgies of Immersion draws on case studies from international productions to conceptualise and analyse the state of contemporary immersive theatre. Immersion appears in different forms, raising the core question: What is at stake in immersive theatre for participants, artists, and society? The answer depends on the underlying values of the different immersive poetics. The book takes a... Read more

Preface

Janek Szatkowski and Thomas Rosendal Nielsen

 

1. Dramaturgies of Immersion: An Introduction

Janek Szatkowski and Thomas Rosendal Nielsen

 

2. Emersive Immersion: Emersive Poetics in Immersive Theatre in Denmark

Thomas Rosendal Nielsen

 

3. Intimate Immersion: Moralities in the Poetics of Cantabile2

Janek Szatkowski

 

4. Ecomimetic Immersions: Anticipating the Future with Eyes Closed

Ida Krøgholt

 

5. Sloppy Immersion: On the Potential of Emersion-as-Immersion in the Work of Sisters Hope and Lena Bondeson.

Jonas Schnor

 

6. Resonant Immersion: Immersive Staging of Homelessness in Performances by Fix&Foxy, SIGNA and Aarhus Theatre

Erik Exe Christoffersen

 

7. Uncanny Immersion: The Mythologisation of Suffering in SIGNA’s Det Åbne Hjerte

Josefine Brink Siem

 

8. Immersive Research Methodologies: Analysing Dramaturgies of Immersion and their Poetics

Janek Szatkowski and Thomas Rosendal Nielsen

Biography

Janek Szatkowski is Associate Professor Emeritus in the Department of Dramaturgy and Musicology, School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Thomas Rosendal Nielsen is Associate Professor in the Department of Dramaturgy and Musicology, School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark.