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July 2007 AHDS Performing Arts 2007

e-Dancing:

embodied practice in the virtual research environment

Helen Bailey, Artistic Director Ersatz DancePrincipal Lecturer in Dance

University of Bedfordshire, UK

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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.

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introduction

The Stereobodies project: • a collaborative interdisciplinary 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.

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ersatz dance & digital performance

• Professional arts and practice-led research contexts

• Interdisciplinary Choreography

• Evolving use of technology in live performance

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ersatz dance & digital performance

Save the Last Dance (2000)

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ersatz dance & digital performance

Save the Last Dance (2000)

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ersatz dance & digital performance

24 Acts of Arson (2002)

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ersatz dance & digital performance

24 Acts of Arson (2002)

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ersatz dance & digital performance

A Part/In Parts (2006)

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ersatz dance & digital performance

A Part/In Parts (2006)

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ersatz dancing in virtual environments

DIRAViS (2004) Dancing in Real and Virtual Spaces

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ersatz dancing in virtual environments

DIRAViS (2004) Dancing in Real and Virtual Spaces

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ersatz dancing in virtual environments

DIRAViS (2004) Dancing in Real and Virtual Spaces

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stereobodies and the dancer’s double

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stereobodies and the dancer’s double

Stereobodies (2006) part of CSAGE project

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e-dancing and distributed choreography

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e-dancing and distributed choreography

July 2007 AHDS Performing Arts 2007

e-dancing and distributed choreography

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e-dancing and distributed choreography

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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

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implications for practice-led research

• Methodological development• New compositional approaches• Documentation and analysis of process• Re-thinking the AG ‘physical’ environment

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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

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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?

future research

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future researchYear 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.

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future researchYear 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  

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contact details

Helen BaileyHelen.Bailey@beds.ac.uk

Stereobodies informationhttp://www.kato.mvc.mcc.ac.uk/rss-wiki/SAGE