Research Methodologies for Dance and Cultural Dramaturgies in Contested Land.

This article is a collaborative weaving of critical discourse and reflections on Dance and Cultural Dramaturgies in Contested Land--two practice-led and (inter)culturally informed research laboratories that took place on Yawuru Country (Broome) in May 2022 and Gadigal and Bidiagal Country (Sydney) in July 2023. Presented by Marrugeku, an Indigenous and intercultural performance company, the laboratories located questions of dance dramaturgy in the contested land that is danced on to engage the cultural perspectives and experiences of those who create it. The following article unpacks the laboratory model to share approaches that might be applied in other situations of dramaturgical experiment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]