Bleeker Transmission in Motion

The Technologizing of Dance
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-315-52416-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 268 Seiten

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 is part of how we make sense and think?

Well-known choreographers and dance collectives including William Forsythe, Siohban Davis, Merce Cunningham, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and BADco. have initiated projects to investigate these questions, and in so doing 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 the significance of these projects in the context of current debates on dance, the (multi-media) archive, immaterial cultural heritage and copyright, embodied cognition, education, media culture and the knowledge society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bleeker, Maaike

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz Andere Darstellende Künste

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Introduction

Part 1

- 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 Pristaš, Goran Sergej Pristaš and Tomislav Medak

- Motion Bank: a Broad Context for Choreographic Research

Scott deLahunta

Part 2

- 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

List of Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Maaike Bleeker is a professor in the Department of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University.