Transmission in motion : the technologizing of dance / edited by Maaike Bleeker.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bleeker, Maaike, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance and technology.

Dance--Data processing.

Dance.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 244 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Summary:

How can various technologies, from the more conventional to the very new, be used to archive, share and understand dance movement? How can they become part of new ways of creating dance? What does this tell us about the ways in which technology shapes how we and think? Well-known choreographers and dance collectives including William Forsythe, Siohban Davis, Merce Cunningham, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Emio Greco PC and BADco., have initiated projects to investigate these questions. In so doing, they have inaugurated a new era for dance archives, education, research and creation. Their work draws attention to the intimate relationship between the technologies we use and the ways in which we think, perceive, and make sense. Transmission in Motion examines these extraordinary projects 'from the inside', presenting in-depth analyses by the practitioners, artists and collectives involved in their development. These studies are framed by scholarly reflection, illuminating their significance in the context of current debates on dance, the (multimedia) archive, immaterial cultural heritage and copyright, embodied cognition, education, media culture and the knowledge society. Book jacket.

Contents:

Movements Across Media : Twelve Tools for Transmission / Maaike Bleeker and Scott deLahunta

Not Fade Away : Thoughts on Preserving Cunningham's Loops / Paul Kaiser

Steve Paxton's Material for the Spine : The Experience of a Sensorial Edition / Florence Corin

William Forsythe's Improvisation Technologies : A Short Design History of Digital Dance Transmission Projects on CD-ROM and DVD-ROM 1994-2011 / Chris Ziegler

A Choreographer's Score : Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker / Bojana Cvejic

Archiving the Dance : Making Siobhan Davies RePlay / Sarah Whatley

Digital Dance Archives / Rachel Fensham

The Dance-Tech Project : How Like a Network / Marlon Barrios Solano

Double Skin/Double Mind : EG | PC's Interactive Installation / Bertha Bermúdez Pascual

What Else Might this Dance Look Like? : Synchronous Objects / Norah Zuniga Shaw

Wayne McGregor's Choreographic Language Agent / Scott deLahunta

BADco. and Daniel Turing : Whatever Dance Toolbox / Nikolina Pristas, Goran Sergej Pristac and Tomislav Medak

Motion Bank : a Broad Context for Choreographic Research / Scott deLahunta

Making Knowledge from Movement : Some Notes on the Contextual Impetus to Transmit Knowledge from Dance / James Leach

Dancing in Digital Archives : Circulation, Pedagogy, Performance / Harmony Bench

Digital Dance : The Challenges for Traditional Copyright Law / Charlotte Waelde & Sarah Whatley

Between Grammatization and Live Movement Sampling / Sally Jane Norman

What if this Were an Archive? : Abstraction, Enactment, and Human Implicatedness / Maaike Bleeker

Indeterminate Acts : Technology, Choreography and Bodily Affects / Chris Salter

Newman's Note, Entanglement, and the Demands of Choreography : Letter to a Choreographer / Alva Noë.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138189430

113818943X

9781138189447

1138189448

OCLC:

960901447