Meta-academy@bates 2013: Minded Motion. An online lab exploring embodiment and co-creation on the internet using Nancy Stark Smith’s Underscore and other moving ideas.
Lab participants will use free internet-based tools to creatively explore questions about embodiment, training and memory, composition, and politics of the body. They will also explore how to translate embodied practices onto the internet. The lab will be structured around Nancy Stark Smith’s Underscore, an approach improvisational dance/movement that she has been developing for over 30 years. Quick Links Lab Orientation Week 1: Arriving In Presence Week 2: Connections Week 3: Engagement + Harvest The content is approached by two kinds of activities: CORE and INVESTIGATIONS Facilitated by Marlon Barrios Solano, Rachel Boggia and Josephine Dorado FLICKR SLIDESHOW with images of participants and lab:Video mashup done with media produced during the lab Visualisation of lab contents, structure and samples.
Becoming. Enhancing Choreographic Objects In the Short Notice Department: we’re presenting at the EChO Seminar tomorrow at Sadler’s Wells, talking about the Choreographic Language Agent, and Becoming.
Details here. Thinking with the Body The Wayne McGregor | Random Dance exhibit Thinking with the Body opens at the Wellcome Collection this week. The selection of exhibits includes a running installation of Becoming. Added, 2013-09-16: there’s a promotional video on YouTube: Becoming We’ve been working with Wayne McGregor | Random Dance and OpenEndedGroup on Becoming, an algorithmic “virtual dancer” that grows and evolves in response to emulated mechanical constraints and to a database of film material. Becoming is currently being used in the studio in the making of Atomos, which premieres in October. Whatever Dance Toolbox. Whatever Dance Toolbox is now released.
To find out how to get it and start using it, read on… Whatever Dance Toolbox is a set of software tools designed for the analysis and development of dance and movement. Six tools included in the suite can help dancers and choreographers devise, develop and rehearse dance, but can also be used in dance education or by non-dancers to explore movement. The suite is a product of a long-standing collaboration between BADco. and German human-machine interface developer and artist Daniel Turing, and it reflects some of the mutual concerns with the dancer-computer interaction and choreographic thinking. Whatever Dance Toolbox in Action Using Whatever Dance Toolbox in rehearsal dancers can manipulate the image of movement and work with an ”active mirror” to produce qualities that they cannot produce on their own. Free download and easy setup Whatever Dance Toolbox CD The latest version of Whatever Dance Toolbox you can download from here.
Like this: Synchronous Objects. KNOWLEDGE-BASE FOR PERFORMING ARTS. USING THE SKY - An exploration of Deborah Hay's solo No Time To Fly by Motion Bank. Siobhan Davies RePlay. What's the Score Publication. “Effective democratization can always be measured by this essential criterion: the participation in and the access to the archive, its constitution, and its interpretation.”— Jacques Derrida, Archive Fever (p. 4) What does it mean to collect and publish dance scores against the background of the debate on the ontology of performance, as it has just been sketched out here?
Over the past months, the visual artist Ludovic Burel and I have met up with a number of artists working in the field of dance to discuss their use of scores10. What vision is implied in this project? What sorts of archives did we have in mind, assuming beforehand that they might exist; what kind of archives have we found or produced? What fictions were we pursuing? One of the first artists that Ludovic and I met in Paris was Vincent Dunoyer, who has been working as an independent choreographer since the late 1990s.