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e-Dancing: embodied practice in the virtual research environment

e-Dancing: embodied practice in the virtual research environment. Helen Bailey, Artistic Director Ersatz Dance Principal Lecturer in Dance University of Bedfordshire, UK. introduction. An exploration of the use of virtual reality, stereoscopic video and the Access Grid in performance

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e-Dancing: embodied practice in the virtual research environment

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  1. e-Dancing:embodied practice in the virtual research environment Helen Bailey, Artistic Director Ersatz Dance Principal Lecturer in Dance University of Bedfordshire, UK

  2. introduction • An exploration of the use of virtual reality, stereoscopic video and the Access Grid in performance • Discussion of how virtual research environments enable new forms of practice through the development of new research methods. • Contribute new knowledge and understandings to the debates concerning documentation of creative process and virtual embodiment in performance.

  3. introduction The Stereobodies project: • a collaborativeinterdisciplinary research project • dance and e-Science • CSAGE (Collaborative Stereoscopic Access Grid Environment) Virtual Research Environment (VRE) project funded by the Joint Information Services Council (JISC) at the University of Manchester, UK.

  4. ersatz dance & digital performance • Professional arts and practice-led research contexts • Interdisciplinary Choreography • Evolving use of technology in live performance

  5. ersatz dance & digital performance Save the Last Dance(2000)

  6. ersatz dance & digital performance Save the Last Dance(2000)

  7. ersatz dance & digital performance 24 Acts of Arson (2002)

  8. ersatz dance & digital performance 24 Acts of Arson (2002)

  9. ersatz dance & digital performance A Part/In Parts (2006)

  10. ersatz dance & digital performance A Part/In Parts (2006)

  11. ersatz dancing in virtual environments DIRAViS (2004) Dancing in Real and Virtual Spaces

  12. ersatz dancing in virtual environments DIRAViS (2004) Dancing in Real and Virtual Spaces

  13. ersatz dancing in virtual environments DIRAViS (2004) Dancing in Real and Virtual Spaces

  14. stereobodies and the dancer’s double

  15. stereobodies and the dancer’s double Stereobodies (2006) part of CSAGE project

  16. e-dancing and distributed choreography

  17. e-dancing and distributed choreography

  18. e-dancing and distributed choreography

  19. e-dancing and distributed choreography

  20. e-dancing and distributed choreography Hands Dance improvised performance with Yukiko Yoshido (ADaPT) at AHRC e-Science Locating Grid Technologies Symposium Bristol University Oct 2006

  21. implications for practice-led research • Methodological development • New compositional approaches • Documentation and analysis of process • Re-thinking the AG ‘physical’ environment

  22. future research • Relocating Choreographic Process: The Impact of Collaborative Memory and Grid Technologies on Practice-led Research in Dance • Funded by an AHRC-EPSRC-JISC e-Science grant • Universities of Bedfordshire, Leeds, Manchester and the Open University • Two-year research project Sept 2007 – Sept 2009

  23. future research Questions: • What unique opportunities does the distributed Access Grid environment provide for developing new approaches to choreographic composition and process and within this context how can we find new, appropriate and meaningful methodologies for capturing and modelling practice-led research? • How can choreographic knowledge and sensibility help to shape e-Science practice to make its applications more usable within the field of performance arts practice-led research as well as the broader Arts and Humanities context?

  24. future research Year 1 Themes and activities: • Relocating Choreographic Practice: Explorations of the improvisational, compositional and performative challenges of the distributed AG environment for dance. • Mapping, Memory and Narrative: Impact of e-Science tools on documenting the creative research process for dance. • Traces and Reiterations: Re-use and mediation of documentation material in hybrid AG dance performance.

  25. future research Year 2 Themes and Activities: • Distributed Choreographic Laboratory:Dancer-collaborators working in individual, distributed contexts • Distributed Process and Performance Intensive distributed collaboration to create performance outcome  

  26. contact details Helen Bailey Helen.Bailey@beds.ac.uk Stereobodies information http://www.kato.mvc.mcc.ac.uk/rss-wiki/SAGE

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