About
Camilla Eeg-Tverbakk is a practicing dramaturg within interdisciplinary performing arts. Her research interests are dramaturgy in the applied field, documentary theatre, theatre and therapy, ethics and performance activism. She holds an MA in Performance Studies from New York University, and a PhD from Roehampton University/ London where she developed the concept 'Theatre-ting', which is a meeting between the possibilities offered by the spaces of theatre and new materialism, post-human perspectives and documentary material.
Eeg-Tverbakk is former artistic director of the acting program at Norwegian Theatre Academy/ NTA (2007-11), where she also led the artistic research project Material Strategies 2018-19. She was part of the artistic research project Extended Composition at the Norwegian Academy of Music (NMH). She was Professor II at Malmø Theatre Academy/ Lund University from 2019-21, and was represented in the committee for artistic research in the Swedish Research Council 2022-24. She is leading the research group for Art-Practice-Research at Institute for Art, Design and Drama and is part of the editorial board for the journal Applied Theatre Research: Socially Engaged Performance.
Field of study
Research ethics Dramaturgy Contemporary art Gender Theater Arts Performance studies Performance Performance Theory Performing arts education Performance Dramaturgy Applied Documentary theatre Independent theatre Devising / Artistic Production
Research groups
Research projects
Ongoing research projects
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ACT UP! Active Citizenship through Theatre for Urban Politics
ACT UP! delivers an innovative theatre-based educational methodology for promoting active citizenship among student in urban climate politics.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Eeg-Tverbakk, Camilla
(2024).
Thinking Matter(s) in Theatre Practice - A Dramaturgy of Assemblages.
Nordic Theatre Studies.
Vol. 35.
https://doi.org/10.7146/nts.v35i2.149660
Archetti, Cristina;
Eeg-Tverbakk, Camilla
(2022).
Enabling Knowledge: The Art of Nurturing Unknown Spaces.
Nordic Journal of Art & Research (A & R).
Vol. 11.
https://doi.org/10.7577/information.5053
Eeg-Tverbakk, Camilla
(2021).
Dramaturgies of Reality - shaping and being shaped by things.
Nordic Journal of Art & Research (A & R).
Vol. 10.
https://doi.org/10.7577/information.4659
Seidman, Karmenlara Ely; Eeg-Tverbakk, Camilla (2015). Responsive Listening: Theater Training for Contemporary Spaces. ISBN: 9781936767366. 120 p. Brooklyn Arts Press.
Eeg-Tverbakk, Camilla (2011). Intervju med Kate Valk, Wooster Group. Norsk Shakespeare- og teatertidsskrift.
Eeg-Tverbakk, Camilla (2011). Derfor lager jeg forferdelige forestillinger. Norsk Shakespeare- og teatertidsskrift.
Eeg-Tverbakk, Camilla (2009). Play as a Performative Act in the work of Baktruppen. Eeg-Tverbakk, Camilla; Arntzen, Knut Ove (Ed.). Performance art by Baktruppen : first part. Kontur Publishing.
Eeg-Tverbakk, Camilla (2009). The Stamsund Survey 2004. Eeg-Tverbakk, Camilla; Arntzen, Knut Ove (Ed.). Performance art by Baktruppen : first part. Kontur Publishing.
Eeg-Tverbakk, Camilla (2009). Dokumentasjon som et utvidet begrep. Katalog til utstillingen Kunsten å falle. Preus fotomuseum.
Eeg-Tverbakk, Camilla (2008). Sensous bodies : on the performative encounter between artwork and viewer Sinnliche Körper. Lars Ø. Ramberg. p. 247-247. Hatje Cantz Verlag.
