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.

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Author:   Maaike Bleeker (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9781138189430

ISBN 10:   113818943
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   20 September 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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 Cvejić 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

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

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