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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] |
THREE: research days
A period of intensive Research Days will run from 24 September to 3 October and involve working meetings of the primary research team to work towards achieving the two main aims of the project:
- 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 issues relative to interdisciplinary and collaborative practice involving live performance and digital technologies
The method of research will involve a combination of meetings between the choreographers and the digital artists/ coders with observations and interventions from the researchers/ writers. An initial orientation day will comprise short presentations of a range of existing software tools and products designed for drawing, painting, composing and playing.
This will be followed by a day to describe in more detail what the rehearsal software (based on the basic description from June) should be able to do so that the digital artists/ coders can begin working on the interface design, scirpting and coding.
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In addition and alongside this process, there will be several one hour "conversations" organised with the participants in small combinations of three, chaired by the researcher/ writers and audio recorded for possible transcription. These staged "conversations" are intended to explicitly address the second aim of the project and will form the core of the variety of written material that will be produced. |
There will be ongoing postings to this site under the real-time documentation section, and the outcomes from these research days will be presented at the public seminar on 6 October 2001.
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