| CODE | DCS2017 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Technology and Interdisciplinary Performance-Making | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 6 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Dance Studies | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit is designed to bring together collaboration and devising practices with interdisciplinary work and to explore the artistic opportunities presented by selected forms of technology. Students will explore through play, practice and theory how technology (e.g. digital video, animation or motion capture) can be utilised effectively in the devising and realisation of a performative event. Students will be stimulated to critically and artistically investigate how digital technologies change attitudes to composition and to modes of presentation, and how interactive technologies can alter perception of dynamic and space. As a practice-based unit, students will study different kinds of interactive installation outside/inside location, live and virtual performers, forms of web-based collaborations, and specific art/science collaborations. Students will be assessed on the realisation of the specific collaborative performative event. Study-unit Aims: - To help students achieve expertise in the use of various technical apparatus necessary to realise the demands of production in live and recorded media; - To facilitate critical discussion on the use of new technologies in the choreographic process; - To support a creative environment for engaging in practices that integrate embodiment, technology and interactivity; - To mentor students in the creation of a performance event that incorporates new technologies. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Identify and interpret technological frameworks which surround performance events and take these into account in creating and/or interpreting performances; -Achieve expertise in the use of various technical apparatus necessary to realise the demands of production in live performance and/or recorded media; - Articulate methodologies of collaborative performance-based research; - Effectively collaborate in the creation, rehearsal, performance and production of a live and mediated performance. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Describe, theorise, and critically reflect on performance texts and performance events which embrace new digital technologies; - Use a range of artistic and embodied techniques to initiate and undertake the generation of collaborative methodologies for performance-making; - Effectively collaborate, create, rehearse, perform and communicate in live and mediated performance. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Indicative Bibliography: Main Texts: - Dixon, Steve. 2007. Digital Performance: a History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation (Mass: MIT Press) - Rosenthal, Stephanie. 2011.’Choreographing You: Choreographies in the Visual Arts.’ In Move. Choreographing You: Art & Dance Since the 1960s, edited by Stephanie Rosenthal, 8–21. (London: The MIT Press) - Giannachi, Gabriella. 2004. Virtual Theatres: an introduction (London: Routledge) Supplementary Readings: - Broadhurst, Susan and J. Machon (eds.) 2012. Identity, Performance and Technology: Practices of Empowerment, Embodiment and Technicity (Palgrave). - Carver, G. and C. Beardon. (eds) 2004. New Visions in Performance: The Impact of Digital Technologies (Netherlands: Swets & Zeitlinger) - Dunham, R. 2015. Stage Lighting: Fundamentals and Application, (New York: Routledge) - Laumond, J.P., and M. Abe. 2015. Dance Notations and Robot Motion, (Springer) - Kozel, Susan. 2007. Closer: Performance, Technology, Phenomenology (MIT Press) - Popat, Sita and S. Palmer. 2009. 'Dancing with Sprites and Robots' in Jo Butterworth and Liesbeth Wildschut (eds.) Contemporary Choreography: a critical reader (London and NY: Routledge) - Rubidge, Sarah. 2009, 'Performing Installations' in Jo Butterworth and Liesbeth Wildschut (eds.) Contemporary Choreography: a critical reader (London and NY: Routledge) - Scheer, Edward and Rosemary Klich. 2011. Multimedia Performance (Palgrave) Websites: - http://www.dance-tech.net/ - www.carolbrowndances.com - www.sensuousgeographies.co.uk |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-requisite Study-unit: DCS1010 | ||||||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Independent Study and Group Learning | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Margaret Jean Westby |
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