Capturing Movement: The documentation and presentation of dance research by Sophia Lycouris (eca)...

Capturing Movement:

The documentation and presentation of dance research

by Sophia Lycouris (eca) and Wendy Timmons (UoE)

IT Futures Group Conference 2008

Research, wRiting and Reputation

University of Edinburgh  

The complexity of dance research

• temporality of dance (how to capture it)• young academic discipline (first Department of

Dance Studies - University of Surrey, 1980s)

Cultural continuity, Nelly’s parallelisms between ancient and 19th century Cretan Dance©. Images belong to Benaki Museum Photographic Archive, adapted with permission – Ref. No. Φ.Α. 51.

Publishing research

Problems• Dance Science/medicine journals -only one quarterly

peer reviewed journal international in scope, IADMS: Journal of Dance Medicine & Science – JDMS

• Journal of Physical Education (JEOPRD), Research in Dance Education , PAJ : a journal of performance and art, Congress on Research in Dance (CORD), Dance Research Journal,

• Books – finding a publisher can be difficult as the market is relatively small and specialised. Even within the field there are many smaller fields/genres ( Ballet, modern, national, social etc.)

Intute: Arts and Humanitieshttp://

www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/about.html

• Arts and Humanities, a subject group of Intute. In combining the resources and services of these hubs, the Arts and Humanities service of Intute offers an easy-to-use and powerful tool for discovering the best Internet resources for education and research in Creative Arts and Humanities. Intute: Arts and Humanities is featured on the AHRC ICT Map.

Artslynx International Dance Resources 

http://www.artslynx.org/dance/

Mission:• Artslynx is especially designed to provide the

most efficient navigation to valuable information for the student, scholar, educator, and researcher in the arts. There is no advertising on Artslynx, no pop-up windows; no mega-graphics to slow things down, just information, organized in the most accessible way possible.

DANCE UKhttp://www.danceuk.org/metadot/index.pl?id=0

DANCE UK functions as a broker, linking researchers with members of the dance profession. Their aim is to help ensure the most useful and relevant research takes place in a way that minimises undue demands on the dancer participants while providing meaningful results that can be fed back to the profession to aid in the health, training and performance of dancers.

http://www.scodhe.ac.uk/index.html

The Conference is the representative body for higher education departments (the term includes schools, subject groups etc.) teaching and researching in Dance in the United Kingdom

Use of multimedia tools in dance:

CHRIS ZIEGLER, ZKM, Germany (http://www.movingimages.de/)

a. Bill Forsythe Improvisation Technologieshttp://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/improvisation-technologies/http://www.movingimages.de/index.php?type=arts&txt_id=10&lng=eng

video exampleshttp://justinmorrison.net/video/william-forsythe-improvisation-technologies/http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9-32m8LE5Xg&feature=relatedhttp://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=n8-N2gZ-TuE&feature=related

b. Double Skin/Double Mindhttp://www.movingimages.de/index.php?type=txt&txt_id=30&lng=eng

Dance Interactive

• http://www.dance-interactive.com/main.html

On-line Archive of Dance

http://www.siobhandavies.com/

http://www.siobhandaviesarchive.org/

Examples of dance research projects:

1. Choreography and cognition project

(Wayne McGregor and Scott deLahunta)

http://www.choreocog.net/index.html

http://greatdance.com/thekineticinterface/2008/05/wayne-mcgregors-entity/

2. Watching dance

(Dee Reynolds)

http://www.watchingdance.org/

Thank You for your attention

For further details please contact:

Sophia Lycouris

s.lycouris@eca.ac.uk

or

Wendy Timmons

wendy.timmons@education.ed.ac.uk