Transcript e-Dance Relocating Choreographic Process Helen Bailey

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Relocating Choreographic Process
Helen Bailey
Head of Centre for Applied Research in Dance
University of Bedfordshire, UK
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Tim Etchells in Certain Fragments:Contemporary
Performance & Forced Entertainment –
‘…theatre must take account of how
technology […] has rewritten and is rewriting
bodies, changing our understanding of
narratives and places, changing our
relationships to culture, changing our
understandings of presence.’
(1999:97)
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Nick Kaye in Multi-Media: Video, Installation,
Performance ‘Multi-media emphasizes a series of
divisions and multiplications in which key
figures and themes return: the division
between video time and performance time;
between video space and performance
space; and the multiplication of media in the
theatrical re-framing and performance of
mediation.’
(2007:26)
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Anna Friedberg in The Virtual Window: From Alberti to
Microsoft ‘Like the window, the screen is at once a surface
and a frame. The screen is a component piece of
architecture, rendering a wall permeable to
ventilation in new ways; a "virtual window" that
changes the materiality of built space, adding new
apertures that dramatically alter our conception of
space and (even more radically) of time.’
(2006:178)
Ersatz Dance
• Multi-media
performance
• Integrating
projected prerecorded video as
virtual environment
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• Screendance
• Choreographed for
the frame
• Non-continuous
spatio-temporal
structure
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• Integrating
digital animation
as virtual
environment
• Interactive systems
• Site-specific
installation
DiRAViS
DiRAViS
Stereobodies
• Integrating
stereoscopic video
projection into live
performance
• Exploration of contact
improvisation
between the actual
and virtual contexts
Choreographic Morphologies
• Solo material
• Virtual sculpture of
the spatial structure
• Visualisation
generated in 3D and
projected
stereoscopically
Choreographic Morphologies
• Integration of live music, dance
and digital technologies
• Explore the visualisation of
experiential spatialities across
the compositional domains of
dance and music
• Interactivity
• Motion-tracking software
• Stereoscopic video projection
Choreographic Morphologies
• 3-D visualisation
generated in 3dsmax
• Visualisation
animated using
Isadora motion
tracking
Choreographic Morphologies
• Screenshots of virtual
sculpture
• Front perspective &
top perspective
Morphologies
Morphologies
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The e-Dance project:
• a collaborative
interdisciplinary
research project
• dance and e-Science
• Funded by an AHRCEPSRC-JISC eScience grant
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• Two-year project Sept
2007 – Sept 2009
• Partner institutions
are Universities of
Bedfordshire, Leeds,
Manchester and the
Open University
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Relocating Choreographic Process: The Impact of
Collaborative Memory and Grid Technologies on
Practice-led Research in Dance
• What unique opportunities does the distributed Access Grid
environment provide for developing new approaches to
choreographic composition and process and within this context
how can we find new, appropriate and meaningful methodologies
for capturing and modelling practice-led research?
• How can choreographic knowledge and sensibility help to shape eScience practice to make its applications more usable within the
field of performance arts practice-led research as well as the
broader Arts and Humanities context?
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• New
compositional
approaches
• Documentation
and analysis of
process
• Software
development
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• e-Dance a new modality?
• Distinct from Screen-Dance
and Hyper-Dance
• Methodological development
• Re-thinking the AG ‘physical’
environment
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Co-Investigators:
• Simon Buckingham-Shum Knowledge Media Institute, The Open
University
• Sita Popat School of Performing Arts & Cultural Industries, University
of Leeds
• Martin Turner Manchester Computing, University of Manchester
Research Assistants:
• Michelle Bachelar The Open University
• Amalia Garcia University of Bedfordshire
• Andrew Rowley University of Manchester
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Project website:
www.ahessc.ac.uk/e-dance
Contact details:
[email protected]