Transmission in Motion: The Technologizing of Dance / Edition 1

by Maaike Bleeker

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138189430
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/20/2016
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part 1

1. Movements Across Media: Twelve Tools for Transmission.

Maaike Bleeker and Scott deLahunta

2. Not Fade Away—Thoughts on Preserving Cunningham’s Loops

Paul Kaiser

3. Steve Paxton’s Material for the Spine: The Experience of a Sensorial Edition

Florence Corin

4. William Forsythe’s Improvisation Technologies. A Short Design History of Digital Dance Transmission Projects on CD-ROM and DVD-ROM 1994 – 2011

Chris Ziegler

5. A Choreographer’s Score: Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker

Bojana Cvejić

6. Archiving the Dance: Making Siobhan Davies RePlay

Sarah Whatley

7. Digital Dance Archives

Rachel Fensham

8. The Dance-Tech Project: How Like a Network

Marlon Barrios Solano

9. Double Skin/Double Mind: EG | PC’s Interactive Installation

Bertha Bermúdez Pascual

10. What Else Might this Dance Look Like? Synchronous Objects

Norah Zuniga Shaw

11. Wayne McGregor’s Choreographic Language Agent

Scott deLahunta

12. BADco. and Daniel Turing: Whatever Dance Toolbox

Nikolina Pristaš, Goran Sergej Pristaš and Tomislav Medak

13. Motion Bank: a Broad Context for Choreographic Research

Scott deLahunta

Part 2

14. Making Knowledge from Movement. Some Notes on the Contextual Impetus to Transmit Knowledge from Dance

James Leach

15. Dancing in Digital Archives: Circulation, Pedagogy, Performance

Harmony Bench

16. Digital Dance: The Challenges for Traditional Copyright Law

Charlotte Waelde & Sarah Whatley

17. Between Grammatization and Live Movement Sampling

Sally Jane Norman

18. What if this Were an Archive? Abstraction, Enactment, and Human Implicatedness

Maaike Bleeker

19. Indeterminate Acts: Technology, Choreography and Bodily Affects

Chris Salter

20. Newman’s Note, Entanglement, and the Demands of Choreography: Letter to a Choreographer

Alva Noë