Dramaturgy in Motion innovatively examines the work of the dramaturg in contemporary dance and movement performance. Katherine Profeta, a working dramaturg for more than fifteen years, shifts the focus from asking “Who is the dramaturg?” to “What does the dramaturg think about?”
            Profeta explores five arenas for the dramaturg’s attention—text and language, research, audience, movement, and interculturalism. Drawing on her extended collaboration with choreographer and visual artist Ralph Lemon, she grounds her thinking in actual rehearsal-room examples and situates practice within theoretical discourse about contemporary dramaturgy. Moving between theory and practice, word and movement, question and answer until these distinctions blur, she develops the foundational concept of dramaturgical labor as a quality of motion.

            Dramaturgy in Motion will be invaluable to practitioners and scholars interested in the processes of creating contemporary dance and movement performance—particularly artists wondering what it might be like to collaborate with a dramaturg and dramaturgs wondering what it might be like to collaborate on movement performance. The book will also appeal to those intrigued by the work of Lemon and his collaborators, to which Profeta turns repeatedly to unfold the thorny questions and rich benefits of dramaturgical labor.

运动中的编剧》创新性地研究了当代舞蹈和运动表演中的编剧工作。凯瑟琳-普罗菲塔是一位工作了15年以上的剧作家，她将焦点从 "谁是剧作家？"转移到 "剧作家在想什么？"

            普罗维塔探讨了戏剧家关注的五个领域--文本和语言、研究、观众、运动和跨文化主义。根据她与编舞家和视觉艺术家Ralph Lemon的长期合作，她将她的思考建立在实际排练室的例子上，并将实践置于关于当代戏剧的理论论述中。她在理论与实践、文字与动作、问题与答案之间游走，直到这些区别变得模糊不清，她提出了戏剧性劳动是一种运动质量的基本概念。

            对于对当代舞蹈和运动表演的创作过程感兴趣的从业者和学者来说，《运动中的戏剧》将是非常有价值的，特别是那些想知道与戏剧家合作是什么样子的艺术家和想知道在运动表演中合作是什么样子的戏剧家。本书还将吸引那些对莱蒙和他的合作者的工作感兴趣的人，普罗菲塔一再转向这些工作，以展开戏剧性劳动的棘手问题和丰富的好处。