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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.
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
