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A Writing Research Associates research project SOFTWARE FOR DANCERS 24 September to 6 October 2001 In collaboration with the Arts Council of England, Sadler's Wells Theatre and Random Dance Company with primary funding from the Dance Department, Arts Council of England |
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project description [ONE] |
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participants [TWO] |
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research days [THREE] |
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focus days [FOUR] |
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roundtable [FIVE] |
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public seminar [SIX] |
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real time documentation [SEVEN] |
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writings/ references [EIGHT] |
ONE: project description
Software for Dancers is a London-based research project with two aims:
- to develop concepts for a software rehearsal tool(s) for choreographers and those practitioners for whom the body in motion is a primary material.
- use the first aim as an opportunity to engage discursively with a range of questions relative to interdisciplinary and collaborative practice involving live performance and digital technologies, for example:
- what are the processes and products of coding and choreography;
- to what extent and to what ends can coding and choreography be described as different or similar;
- what level and type of shared understanding is necessary to facilitate interdisciplinary collaborative practice;
- what are the possible range and outcomes of this form of practice;
- how and where can an articulation of these and other issues function dynamically and generatively within a diverse community of practitioners.
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Between 24 September and 6 October 2001, Software for Dancers will engage in four different types of activities. A period of intensive Research Days will run from 24 September to 3 October and involve working meetings of the primary research team. This will be followed by two Focus Days on 4 and 5 October, a Round Table discussion on 6 October, and a Public Seminar to share the results of the project (scheduled for 2-5 pm on 6 October). |
The primary research team comprises four established London based choreographers [Siohban Davies, Shobana Jeyasingh, Wayne McGregor and Ashley Page] working in collaboration with digital artists/ coders from the UK and Germany [Guy Hilton, Jo Hyde, Bruno Martelli, Adrian Ward and Christian Ziegler].
In addition, two researchers/ writers [Sanjoy Roy and Saul Albert from London] have been invited to join the project in order to help to articulate and disseminate the various intellectual products (non software) of the research.
More information about all participants may be found here.
History
The primary research team met for a week of discussions from 25-30 June 2001with the main goal of establishing the basic description of what a prototype of a software rehearsal tool might do. Achieving this goal entailed observations/ articulation of dance making and coding practices, their similarities and differences, fulfilling part of the second aim of the project. In addition, the primary team made field trips to some of the technology research laboratories in the UK including the robotics/ alife labs at University of Sussex and the University of Nottingham's Mixed Reality Laboratory.
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