Dance Assemblages
Collaborations with Virtual Reality (VR) Dance lives within, through and across the body and the digital. This research branch is an exploration of choreography that is the sum of the dance. We capture duets between humans, duets between human and non-human as a single avatar. We are interested in the artistic value to the choreography as well as the social and ecological statement of this capturing of togetherness. |
SPACE+DANCE +DIGITAL
Collaborations with Augmented Reality (AR) AR allows the performance experience to be within the physical space of the audience and at the same time shared and responded to by people digitally coming together across geographic, political, language and social barriers. Part of the research impetus for this project is to ask what does it mean artistically for dance to take advantage of the physical boundary crossing of digital space? Choreographic research (SPACE+DANCE+DIGITAL) at MIT Immersion Lab. funded by Ivor Guest Research Grant, Society for Dance Research. Further funding applications are pending. |
OVERVIEW
Dancing the Digital: Boundaries [2022/23]
We are looking at the concept of collaboration between two artists interacting across geographic location in terms of a third actor - the audience. We are exploring how the 'audience'/all involved can experience the choreography as interactive and Place making. This is to challenge how dance happens beyond the dancer’s body and within environment and digital. We have exciting plans developing new technology, choreography, and residencies for 2022/23.
Dancing the digital with the ecologically connected-body [2020 - 2022]
Continued choreographic exploration using only realtime digital platforms to co-choreograph across expand geographic locations in Europe and USA. Creation of Common Space two as a performance space that include choreographer, dancer and also environment and audiences. Presentation of findings and artistic output at ECODATA- Riga- RIXC Festival (October 2020).
Dancing the Digital Age [2018-2020]
Article Dancing the Digital Age: a survey of the new technologies in the choreographic process published in Journal of Genius and Eminence; two choreographic residencies using various Web 2.0 platforms and off-line reflection tool to create a metaphorical common space between UK and Latvia from which to explore co-choreographing. Presentation at Re:generations, Manchester UK (November 2019).
We are looking at the concept of collaboration between two artists interacting across geographic location in terms of a third actor - the audience. We are exploring how the 'audience'/all involved can experience the choreography as interactive and Place making. This is to challenge how dance happens beyond the dancer’s body and within environment and digital. We have exciting plans developing new technology, choreography, and residencies for 2022/23.
Dancing the digital with the ecologically connected-body [2020 - 2022]
Continued choreographic exploration using only realtime digital platforms to co-choreograph across expand geographic locations in Europe and USA. Creation of Common Space two as a performance space that include choreographer, dancer and also environment and audiences. Presentation of findings and artistic output at ECODATA- Riga- RIXC Festival (October 2020).
Dancing the Digital Age [2018-2020]
Article Dancing the Digital Age: a survey of the new technologies in the choreographic process published in Journal of Genius and Eminence; two choreographic residencies using various Web 2.0 platforms and off-line reflection tool to create a metaphorical common space between UK and Latvia from which to explore co-choreographing. Presentation at Re:generations, Manchester UK (November 2019).