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At ITP / New York University (NYU), Tisch School of the Arts

27-31 AUGUST 2015

Call for applications from artists working with code and digital media for the at ITP/ NYU-Tisch Choreographic Coding Lab.

Are you an artist working creatively with code and digital media with an interest in movement? Then come join Motion Bank and the team ITP/ NYU-Tisch for the 4th Choreographic Coding Lab where movement hackers and practitioners will be gathering to discuss and work on projects, ideas and challenges in a peer-to-peer setting.

CCL #3 - Melbourne at Deakin Motion.Lab, 2015 from participant Philip Boltt

The Choreographic Coding Lab (CCL) format offers unique opportunities of exchange and collaboration for digital media ‘code savvy’ artists who have an interest in translating aspects of choreography and dance into digital form and applying choreographic thinking to their own practice. This format supports working with patterns in movement scores and structures through finding, generating and applying them with results ranging from prototypes for artworks to new plug-ins for working with dance related datasets. The CCLs also seek to support a sustainable collaborative practice among its participants encouraging ongoing exchange in a growing artistic research community.

CCLs are an outcome of 
Motion Bank, a four-year research project of The Forsythe Company focused on the creation of digital dance scores with guest choreographers. This research involved the study, documentation and analysis of unique choreographic approaches, and the datasets and tools used behind the development of the Motion Bank scores will be made available for the CCLs including an installation of Piecemeta / Piecemaker2. These systems hold and serve the data from Motion Bank and previous CCL recordings.

With their reputation for fostering curiosity, supporting agile 'light weight' design research and forging collaborative working pathways between disciplines, 
ITP/ NYU-Tisch is an ideal host for the organisation of the CCL. The week will be enriched by interactions with experienced local choreographers and members of the Motion Bank research team. The organizers of the CCL will facilitate internal exchanges, documentation and open-door moments. The ITP/ NYU-Tisch space and equipment will be freely provided.

Pathfinder

Pathfinder tool from CCL #1 participant Christian Loclair (princemio)

There is no fee (or payment from our side) for participation, but applicants are asked to propose starting points and ideas. Collaborative teams involving coders, choreographers, object, sound and filmmakers interested in the Motion Bank research are encouraged to apply. A selection will be made to ensure the right balance of participants and what they bring to the lab. The application deadline is 8 June 2015. Participants will arrive and gather on the evening of 26 August for an informal get together, then begin exploration in the lab on 27 August.

Go directly to the application form:
http://choreographiccoding.org/content/application-form-nyu-ccl-4-august-2015

Contact with questions about the ITP/ NYU-Tisch facilities:
Mimi Yin (mimi.yin@nyu.edu)

Contact with general questions about participation:
Florian Jenett (ccl@motionbank.org)

With the support of the Processing FoundationVVVV,CreativeApplications.net and NODE - Forum for Digital Arts
 
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I am very happy to announce that since February 1st 2017, dance-tech.net and other related dance-tech projects have initiated process of developing a collaborative ownership  model involving several important organizations in the field.
These organizations represent diverse approaches and perspectives  on the transmission of dance knowledge, facilitating an exciting and strong synergy that may manifest in new developments and collaborations to support this community.
It is a moment of reconnection and reinvention.
Motion Bank from Frankfurt (Germany) have decided to step in to support directly the transition,  joining efforts with Bates College with direct financial support  covering the costs of server and hosting of dance-tech.net and dance-tech.tv.
Here are the words of Florian Jenett from Motion Bank:
"Motion Bank has explored intersections of dance and technology since 2010 building on projects that reach back to as early as 1994. Technology for us is an enabler, an invitation to see more and take new perspectives on an art form that is inherently hard to translate into other domains outside the body. We know Marlon for a long time and have been following his relentless efforts in shaping dance-tech.net for this community and hence are happy to now be able to support it."
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Dance-tech Core Node:

I am honored that the following people and organizations have expressed interest in participating in this  process as the Dance-tech Core Node:

Scott deLahunta  and Florian Jenett from Motion Bank (Germany)
Kerstin Kussmaul from IDocde/REFLEX Europe (Austria)
Nayse Lopez from festival Panorama (Brazil)
Rachel Boggia from bates College (USA)
Johannes Birringer  from Brunel University (UK)
Matt Lewis from ACCAD/OSU (USA)
Marcela Giesche from Lake Studios Berlin (Germany)
Mark Coniglio from Troikatronix/Isadora (Germany)
Susan Kozel  from Medea Malmo University (Sweden)
Norah Zuniga-Shaw from Department  of Dance of The Ohio State University
Director of Dance and Technology
Jaki Levi from ArrowRoot Media
Jeannette Ginslov Independent artists and researcher (UK)
PhD Candidate London South Bank University 
Lisa Nelson from Contact Collaborations, codirector CQ Contact Quarterly Magazine and director of Videoda
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These are the agreements  and basic guidelines for the transition from  February 1st 2017:
1.-Participants of this process must have an active account on dance-tech.net and join a group that will be specially created for this process on the same network (dance-tech core node)
2.-The ownership of the dance-tech.net and dance-tech.tv will be transferred  to a group of collaborators of stakeholders.
3.-Motion Bank, in agreement with Marlon Barrios Solano, is the main/first enabler of this transmission of ownership and commits to continue paying the hosting fees and maintenance of all the dance-tech platforms: dance-tech.netdance-tech.tv and dance-tech.tv@  Vimeo starting February 1st 2017
4.-All collaborators commit to keep the content available and free of cost. A donation system is embedded in the dance-tech.net platforms and it is  linked to Motion Bank
5.-Marlon Barrios Solano will keep his account in dance-tech,net as Marlon Barrios Solano (network creator);  and will share the moderation/administration privileges until is necessary.
6.-It should be very clearly and visibly stated in the main page sidebar that dance-tech projects are supported by this new collaborative model. All supporters may use of the side bar to show a linkable logo to their websites or dance-tech accounts.
7.-Marlon Barrios Solano will maintain the ownership of projects such as dance-tech interviews and views, meta-academy, meta-medialab, meta-creationlab and will keep using his dance-tech.net account for their publishing. It is also offered in this new phase, the possibility that all organizations can use the names and concepts the dance-tech projects.
An excellent start of this new phase!
Please leave questions, ideas in the comment section of this post!
Onwards,
Marlon
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Images: Motion Bank Choreographic Coding Lab #5 Los Angeles 2015 @ UCLA

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5th Choreographic Coding Lab


At University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
14-19 September 2015

Hosted by the Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) at UCLA in partnership with Design Media Arts (DMA) at UCLA
 

Call for Applications from artists working with code and digital media for the CAP UCLA / DMA @UCLA Choreographic Coding Lab

Are you an artist working creatively with code and digital media with an interest in movement? Then come join Motion Bank and the UCLA team for the 5thChoreographic Coding Lab where movement hackers and practitioners will be gathering to discuss and work on projects, ideas and challenges in a peer-to-peer setting.

CCL #3 - Melbourne at Deakin Motion.Lab, 2015 from participant Philip Boltt

The Choreographic Coding Lab (CCL) format offers unique opportunities of exchange and collaboration for digital media ‘code savvy’ artists who have an interest in translating aspects of choreography and dance into digital form and applying choreographic thinking to their own practice. This format supports working with patterns in movement scores and structures through finding, generating and applying them with results ranging from prototypes for artworks to new plug-ins for working with dance related datasets. The CCLs also seek to support a sustainable collaborative practice among its participants encouraging ongoing exchange in a growing artistic research community.

CCLs are an outcome of Motion Bank, a four-year research project of The Forsythe Company focused on the creation of digital dance scores with guest choreographers. This research involved the study, documentation and analysis of unique choreographic approaches, and the datasets and tools used behind the development of the Motion Bank scores will be made available for the CCLs including an installation of Piecemeta / Piecemaker2. These systems hold and serve the data from Motion Bank and previous CCL recordings.

CCL-#2 at Uferstudios Berlin - September 2014
CCL #2 at Uferstudios Berlin - September 2014

The UCLA partners are ideal for the organization of this 5th CCL. CAP UCLA has a unique commitment to the art of performance that includes support for groundbreaking boundary crossing works between the performing arts and other fields. The DMA is world renowned for their comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to media creation that fosters individual exploration and innovative thinking. This will be the first on-campus jointly sponsored project of these two extraordinary programs.

The week will be enriched by interactions with experienced local choreographers and members of the Motion Bank research team. The organizers of the CCL will facilitate internal exchanges, documentation and open-door moments. The CAP UCLA/DMA@UCLA space and equipment will be freely provided.

Pathfinder
Pathfinder tool from CCL #1 participant Christian Loclair (princemio)

There is no fee (or payment from our side) for participation, but applicants are asked to propose starting points and ideas. Collaborative teams involving coders, choreographers, object, sound and filmmakers interested in the Motion Bankresearch are encouraged to apply. A selection will be made to ensure the right balance of participants and what they bring to the lab. The application deadline is 26 June 2015. Participants will arrive and gather on the evening of 14 September for an informal get together, then begin exploration in the lab on 15 September.

Go directly to the application form:
http://choreographiccoding.org/node/26

Contact with general questions about CCL participation:
Florian Jenett (ccl@motionbank.org)

With the support of the Andrew W. Mellon FoundationCreativeApplications.net,NODE - Forum for Digital ArtsProcessing Foundation and VVVV


Also still open for applications until mid-June:
CCL-4, August 2015 at ITP/NYU, New York

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After four years research into the creation of digital dance scores with guest choreographers, the Motion Bank project of The Forsythe Company will conclude Phase One with a presentation of results both live and on-line and proposals for the future.

LIVE & ONLINE 2013
28 NOVEMBER TO 1 DECEMBER
FRANKFURT LAB
Schmidtstrasse 12, Frankfurt am Main



Live & OnLine will begin Thursday evening 28 November at 7 pm with a first public presentation of the on-line Motion Bankmaterials of guest choreographers Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion, Bebe Miller and Thomas Hauert, alongside an updated version of Deborah Hay’s website ‘Using the Sky’ first presented in June 2013 at Tanzkongress, Düsseldorf. Additionally, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings, ZOO/ Thomas Hauert will present the German Premiere of MONO. 

Friday through Sunday activities are organised to support a fluid exchange of ideas and approaches to the creation and use of the new Motion Bank materials alongside related choreographic resources published by a growing Community of Practice (see:http://motionbank.org/en/content/research). Key individuals working with these projects have been invited to join the Motion Bankteam members to take part in and contribute to workshops, Q&A and public discussion during the days. Also planned is a major platform for dance students from Frankfurt, Dresden and Berlin to share the results of their research into applications of these resources. 

More information soon under: http://motionbank.org/en/event/live-online-2013

There is no attendance fee for the conference.
We kindly ask you to register for the conference by writing to registration@theforsythecompany.de with the subject-header “conference registration”. 

The performances of MONO cost Fri. & Sat. € 29 / € 14,50 – Sun. € 26 / € 13
Tickets must be purchased through the Städtischen Bühnen Frankfurt under the number 
+49 (0) 69 212 49494 or go to  www.theforsythecompany.com

CHOREOGRAPHIC CODING: A MOTION BANK LAB
26-29 November 2013
Z Zentrum für Proben und Forschung
Schmidtstrasse 12, Frankfurt am Main


Running in parallel with Live & OnLine, Choreographic Coding explores how to translate aspects of dance and choreography into digital form, one of the main goals of Motion Bank. This is a laboratory for 'code savvy' practitioners with expertise in digital media practice, e.g. video, graphics, programming.  Teams combining different skill sets including dance and choreography are encouraged to apply. 
For more information and to register for the lab: 
http://motionbank.org/en/event/motion-bank-laboratory

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Motion Bank Workshop No. 5 on “Writing Dance” under the direction of Jonathan Burrows, Matteo Fargion and Adrian Heathfield will commence in just a few days. From April 16 to 18, participants will come together at Frankfurt LAB to focus on discussion leading to practical work. Emphasis will be towards investigating choreographic and compositional processes, and experimental writing and scoring practices, questioning how a dance can be made and what it can communicate to the audience.

As part of the workshop, a Motion Bank Salon will take place once again. We therefore cordially invite you to join Adrian Heathfield on April 17 at 6 p.m. when he presents the film “Writing Not Yet Thought,” in which he and French author Hélène Cixous discuss the practice of writing as it relates to the genres of fiction, essays and poetry and its relationship to painting, music and philosophy.
Admission is free.
For more information, please visit www.motionbank.org

In addition, we would like to make you aware of one of our main events in 2013: as part of the 2013 Dance Congress, which will be held from June 6 to 9 in Düsseldorf, Motion Bank will be presenting the digital score based on Deborah Hay’s choreography “No Time To Fly.” Motion Bank and the Forsythe Company will also be conducting several workshops and talks at the event. 
More information on the Dance Congress program is available at www.tanzkongress.de

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Goethe Institut New York


Goethe-Institut New York presents Objects in Performance

3D Alignment Forms. Animation of dancer’s traceforms in One Flat Thing, reproduced mapped to 3D space. 
Synchronous Objects Project, The Ohio State University and The Forsythe Company . 

Objects in Performance
As the object has become a central issue in both theory and the arts, the Goethe-Institut  New York dedicates a weekend to intensive theoretical exchange and spatial experience to the object in performance. An installation, a symposium and a performance are the starting point of long-term engagement  with the object and related matters in the fields of theory and the arts alike.

www.goethe.de/newyork

Synchronous Objects: Degrees of Unison
Installation by Norah Zuniga Shaw
February 2–26, 2012
Wed–Sun 2–7pm

Opening: 
February 2, from 6–8 pm

Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building
5 East 3rd Street (at Bowery)
New York, NY 10003

Synchronous Objects: Degrees of Unison is a multipart sound and video installation focusing on “One Flat Thing, reproduced,” an ensemble dance by William Forsythe.

Focusing on the choreographic visualization online project Synchronous Objects created by Norah Zuniga Shaw, Maria Palazzi and William Forsythe, the installation brings viewers into an encounter with the deep structures of a dance and the generative ideas contained within. A series of visual objects—animations, computer graphics, interactive tools—enact a parallel performance of Forsythe’s choreographic ideas. The work was first launched online in 2009 and is still available in this form. In the installation, Norah Zuniga Shaw stays close to the conceptual foundations of the online original while extending them into the architectural and experiential possibilities of the Goethe-Institut Wyoming Building. In addition to interacting with the site and viewing HD animations from the project, visitors can spend time within a circle of synchronized visualizations unfolding from dance to data to objects over the 15-minute time span of the piece. William Forsythe’s voice calls out timing to the dancers and the sounds of the dancers’ actions move in multi-channel choreography around the space. Finally, a paper proliferation of creative processes can be found to read, leave behind, sort, or carry home.

Synchronous Objects: Degrees of Unison (2010)
A video installation by Norah Zuniga Shaw based on original material from
Synchronous Objects for One Flat Thing, reproduced (2009)
By William Forsythe, Norah Zuniga Shaw, Maria Palazzi

Objects in Performance
Symposium curated by André Lepecki, Performance Studies, NYU
February 3–4, 2012
NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Performance Studies
721 Broadway, 6th floor
New York, NY 10003

The recent phenomenon of object-invested experimental dance and performance echoes the resurgence of the object in recent philosophy, critical theory, literary and cultural studies; as well as in the renewed interest in the concept of the object in the visual arts. This resurgence of the object also has implications for studies on subjectivity. If, as Deleuze once said, “the status of the object is changed, so is the subject’s,” it is crucial to investigate the contemporary nature of this phenomenon. The Objects in Performance Symposium will gather a group of renowned American, German, and international scholars and artists, from a variety of fields and perspectives, to present their most recent research on the matter. The environment will be such as to stimulate exchange and conversation between disciplines, and between artists and scholars.

With Barbara Browning, Franz Anton Cramer, Eleonora Fabião, George Ferrandi, Jenn Joy, Heather Kravas, Thomas Lehmen, André Lepecki, Eva Meyer-Keller, Sarah Michelson, Ann Pellegrini, Allen S. Weiss, Norah Zuniga Shaw.

Death is Certain
Performance by Eva Meyer-Keller
February 5, 2012, 2 performances at 6:00 pm and 07:30 pm
MINI/Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38
38 Ludlow Street (btw. Grand & Hester)                  
New York, NY 10002

Cherries have tender skin, meat and a kind of bone inside them. Their juice is red like blood. When you treat them like humans sometimes treat other humans, then they become human themselves or at least animated objects, which invite you to identify yourself with them. In the performance Death is Certain, Eva Meyer-Keller has installed sweet cherries as her protagonists.

The viewer is reminded of deaths from films, but also the reality of executions, how they really happen: associations from individual and collective experience in face of the sweet death at the kitchen table.

The Goethe-Institut New York is a branch of the Federal Republic of Germany’s global cultural institute, established to promote the study of German language and culture abroad, encourage international cultural exchange, and provide information on Germany’s culture, society, and politics.

Goethe-Institut New York presents Objects in Performance
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William Forsythe interviewed by Thierry de Mey (2006)
About  the making and performing of One Flat Thing, Reproduced


More about Choreography or ELSE

This work is shown here with as courtesy of  the artists with educational purposes.


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Motion Bank Workshop No. 1 April 2011

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From the 26th to the 30th of April 2011 at The Frankfurt LAB.

DANCE & DATA: MIXING SCORES, SENSES, TOOLS AND REFLECTION

This first workshop in the series aims to increase awareness of tools and systems being used to score, notate, create and document dance. The following internationally recognised practitioners will provide insight into their latest activities through workshops and discussions: Paris-based choreographer Myriam Gourfink, video artist Philip Bussmann, Zagreb-based Performance Collective BadCo., and Ana Vujanović and Petra Sabisch from Everybody’s.

In addition, renowned neuroscientist Dr. Wolf Singer, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, joins our Thursday evening Salon.

Please click HERE for an overview of the schedule. A detailed schedule is listed under each of the following descriptions. Biographies are at the bottom of this page.

Participation fee for all workshops (except Petra Sabisch and Ana Vujanovic) is 85€ / reduction 65€ (Students). For participation in two workshops: 120€ / reduction 100€ (Students). Free entrance to the Thursday evening Salon.

For Registration contact: motionbank -at- theforsythecompany.de (Nathalie Denis)

For More Information contact: workshop-moba -at- theforsythecompany.de (Célestine Hennermann)

Workshop with Petra Sabisch and Ana Vujanovic (Germany/Serbia)

For information about this workshop contact: Stefan.Hoelscher -at- theater.uni-giessen.de (Stefan Hölscher)

Everybodys and Walking Theory propose / modes of production: games & discussions

The procedure of the workshop emerges from the encounter between the platforms Everybodys and Walking Theory, by trying to develop theory out of the artistic work. We will investigate the use of games and discussions as modes of production in contemporary dance and performing arts. We will analyze, problematize and systematize these practical proposals in order to reflect on the invention of new forms of practicing and/or producing. Hence, the workshop invites artists, choreographers, theoreticians, performers, producers, or in one word, practitioners in the cultural field.

Detailed Schedule:

Sunday, 24 April: 15-18h
Monday, 25 April: 11-17h30
Tuesday, 26 April: 11-17h30
Wednesday, 27 April: 11-17h30
Thursday, 28 April: 11-13h

In cooperation with the Institut für angewandte Theaterwissenschaften from the Justus-Liebig-Universität and The Forsythe Company/Motion Bank.

Workshop with BADco.’s Tomislav Medak and Nikolina Pristaš (Croatia)

Whatever Dance Toolbox

Whatever Dance Toolbox is a product of a long-standing research-oriented collaboration around computer-dancer interaction between BADco. and German human-machine interface developer and artist Daniel Turing. It is a suite of free software tools designed to assist in generating, analyzing, developing and rehearsing choreographic work. Simply put, tools employ different types of visual analysis, delay, reverse-play, jitter and slow motion functions, together with long exposition function, to allow dancers and choreographers to study, refine and enrich their movement choices and relationships. Getting familiar with working in technologically conditioned environment, understanding how the machine “sees” the space and movement, working with divided attention, approaching improvisation in terms of montage, learning how to use technology in order to analyze dance and induce a change in the quality of movement, reinventing the quality of relations to other bodies in space are some of the experiences participants will have using WDT.

“Regardless of the fact that we developed this software for the sake of dance analysis it is equally interesting to non-dancers because instead of explaining dance only as expression of the dancer’s self or as self-referring choreographic object, it brings to light relational aspects and thinking procedurally in dance creation.”

During this three day workshop Tomislav Medak and Nikolina Pristaš will make an introduction into technical and practical aspects of working with WDT, explain basic concepts they derived from working with it and will move with the participants through a series of practical tasks.

Detailed Schedule:

Tuesday, 26 April: 11-17h30
Wednesday, 27 April: 11-17h30
Thursday, 28 April: 11-13h

Salon with Dr. Wolf Singer (Germany)

On choreographic organisation

An open conversation on how models from neuroscience might shed light on the creation and performance of choreography. Facilitated by Scott deLahunta and linked to the “Dance Engaging Science” interdisciplinary research meetings

Detailed Schedule:

Thursday April 28, 19h

Workshop with Philip Bussmann (Germany)

Technology and Technique: Documenting Dance

The video camera has been a standard tool of the trade of theater professionals for capturing rehearsals and performances for over a decade. Improvisations are filmed, runs are analyzed and recreated, shows are documented for archival purposes. Video artist Philip Bussmann has been creating stage video and dance films since the mid nineties. Pulling from examples from his own work and those of others this workshop will investigate the possibilites, shortcommings and challenges of documenting dance using »traditional«, non-interactive video technologies and techniques and turning these documentations into artistic works of their own rights. A special emphasis is placed on the problem of recreating the original energy of a dance performance on film and the challenge to convey the impact of a live performance on a theater audience on a video screen.

Detailed Schedule:

Thursday, 28 April: 14-17h30
Friday, 29 April: 11-17h30
Saturday, 30 April: 11-17h30

Workshop with Myriam Gourfink (France)

language

Myriam Gourfink will explore the connection between weight and breathing and notation. These two factors raise the question of pre-movements. Our most hidden and deepest motor resources. The continuous interaction of this data (weight/breathing) creates a kind of general “sweeping” happening as much inside the body as in the space around it. The quality of concentration that emerges from the awareness of every psychological and corporeal movement, the performer’s personal inner upheaval and the moment itself is what Gourfink will try to approach through formalizing a language based on Labanotation.

Detailed Schedule:

Thursday, 28 April: 14-17h30
Friday, 29 April: 11-17h30
Saturday, 30 April: 11-17h30


BIOGRAPHIES (in alphabetical order):

BADco. is a Zagreb-based theatre collective. The collective, a confluence of interests in choreography, dramaturgy and philosophy, is nowadays made up of Pravdan Devlahović, Ivana Ivković, Ana Kreitmeyer, Tomislav Medak, Goran Sergej Pristaš, Nikolina Pristaš, Lovro Rumiha and Zrinka Užbinec. Since it was founded in 2000, it has been systematically focusing on the theatrical and dance performance as a problem field – questioning the established ways of performing, representing and spectating. They approach the theatrical act as an unstable communicational exchange, a complex imaginary challenging the spectator to peer beyond the homogenizing media reality and reclaim her or his freedom of spectating. BADco. is invited to the Bienale of Venice 2011. Nikolina Pristaš is a choreographer, dancer and performer, one of the co-founders of BADco. Tomislav Medak is a philosopher with interests in constellations contemporary political philosophy, media theory and aesthetics. He is co-ordinating theory program and publishing activities of the Multimedia Institute/MAMA (Zagreb, Croatia, and free software and free culture advocate. http://badco.hr/

Philip Bussmann is a video artist and set designer. A native of Germany, he has been designing stage video for international dance, theater, and opera productions since 1995. Mr. Bussmann began his career in New York City at The Wooster Group, where he designed the video for House/ Lights and To You, the Birdie. At Staatsoper Stuttgart he created video for Die Zauberflöte, directed by Peter Konwitschny, and Tristan und Isolde, directed by Luk Perceval. His ongoing collaborations with William Forsythe include Kammer/Kammer, Decreation and You Made Me a Monster, among others. Recently he designed the video for Lost Highway at English National Opera in London, video, set and lights for Gotham Chamber Opera’s production of Il Mondo della Luna at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City, both directed by Diane Paulus, and the set for Falling Man at Thalia Theater Hamburg, directed by Sandra Strunz. He also creates dance, performance and video projects with his own company, 2+. http://www.philipbussmann.com

With Contraindre (2004), This is My House (2005) or more recently Les temps Tiraillés, Myriam Gourfink has developed a demanding and personal choreographic body of work, drawing on a precise way of writing inspired by Rudolf Laban (who elaborated a theory on the notation of movement, known as « Labanotation », in the beginning of the 20th century). Based on yoga and respiration control, her approach inscribes the living process in an almost hypnotically slow space-time which goes against a culture that is ruled by speed an zapping. Myriam Gourfink works in close collaboration with composer Kasper T. Toeplitz, who constructs sound-spaces in real time, as well as with computer scientists, in order to explore, with the help of both dancers and digital devices, micro-movements in an intense synergy of mind and body. The goal of this research is to invite performers, via an open score, to create the dance together with the choreographer. http://www.myriam-gourfink.com

Petra Sabisch is choreographer & philosopher. Besides her own choreographic works (last method, unplugged, Berlin 2010 & conversation piece, Berlin 2008), and diverse artistic collaborations in Paris & Berlin (e.g. A. Baehr, J. Bel, A. Chauchat, F. Gies, M. Ingvartsen) Sabisch received the Doctor of Philosophy (London) in 2010 with her dissertation Choreographing Relations: Practical Philosophy and Contemporary Choreography in the works of Antonia Baehr, Gilles Deleuze, Juan Dominguez, Félix Guattari, Xavier Le Roy and Eszter Salamon (Munich: epodium 2010). Since 2005 she is involved in the application of open source-strategies for the Performing Arts with the open platform Everybodys (http://www.everybodystoolbox.net/) & in the development of the artist-run Performing Arts Forum PAF (France). Sabisch has published internationally and is teaching, e.g. at the Univ. of Dance & Circus in Stockholm, the Univ. of Giessen and the Inter-University Center for Dance (HZT) in Berlin. http://www.verandaproduction.net

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolf Singer studied Medicine in Munich and Paris, obtained his MD from the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, and his PhD from the Technical University in Munich. Since 1981 he is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt am Main. In 2004 he was the founding director of the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) and in July 2008 he initiated the foundation of the Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for cognitive neurosciences. Article about Dr. Singer on the Goethe Institute website.

Ana Vujanović (1975 Belgrade); freelance worker – theorist, writer, lecturer, organizer, dramaturge – in contemporary performing arts and culture from Belgrade, based in Berlin / Belgrade / Paris. Ph.D. in Theatre Studies. Editor of TkH, journal for performing arts theory, and a member of editorial collective of TkH platform for performing arts theory and practice, Belgrade (www.tkh-generator.net); from 2010 in residence in Paris, working at Les laboratories d’Aubervilliers (www.leslaboratoires.org). Lecturer at the Interdisciplinary post-graduate studies at the University of Arts, Belgrade. Engages in many artworks: performance, theatre, dance, video… (as co-author, dramaturge, performer); and organizes and/or gives lectures and workshops at symposia, conferences, and festivals. Her particular commitment is empowering the independent scenes in Belgrade (Other Scene), ex-Yugoslavia (Clubture, The FaMa) and in Europe (PAF). Publishes regularly in journals and anthologies. Author of the books: Destroying Performance Signifiers, An Introduction to Performance Studies with A. Jovićević, and DOXICID.

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Yes!

Our recently created series CHOREOGRAFY or ELSE: Contemporary Experiments on the Performance of Motion has been included as a relevant reference on research on contemporary choreography a project  supported by The Forsythe Company  and led by Scott delaHunta: MOTION BANK aka MOBA

MOBA is "...ia new four year project (2010-2013) of The Forsythe Company providing a broad context for research into choreographic practice. The main focus is on the creation of on-line digital scores in collaboration with guest choreographers* to be made publicly available via the Motion Bank website. Both these unique score productions and development of related teaching curriculum will be undertaken with and rely on the expertise and experience of key collaborative partners."

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Thank you to the artists that are collaborating with their art and openness for crazy ideas! You are the makers or the experiments and futures!

Marlon

Geneva, Switzerland

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Go to Motion Bank Website

MOTION BANK is a new four year project (2010-2013) of The Forsythe Company providing a broad context for research into choreographic practice. The main focus is on the creation of on-line digital scores in collaboration with guest choreographers* to be made publicly available via the Motion Bank website. Both these unique score productions and development of related teaching curriculum will be undertaken with and rely on the expertise and experience of key collaborative partners.

Public educational activities and events reflecting the diverse issues related to score creation will be offered at The Frankfurt Lab, and will include performances and presentations of the guest choreographers as well as lectures. Workshops and residencies organized with senior scientists and scholars aim to stimulate interdisciplinary research based on questions coming from dance practice. Exchange of information with and support for related projects is facilitated through working groups and associate networks.

The pilot project for Motion Bank is the award winning Synchronous Objects for One Flat Thing, reproduced: a joint project of William Forsythe and The Ohio State University’s Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design and the Department of Dance.

*The guest choreographers for 2010-2013 will be Deborah Hay, Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion, and Bruno Beltrão.


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CQ chapbook 1, Vol. 35 no. 2, is a unique small-format 32-page piece, packed with dynamic photos and drawings, featuring collaborations between dance and new media:

  • Darkling: enter technology - where is the body? an essay on a performance work-in-progress by Hélène Lesterlin
  • Jonah Bokaer: moving toward an embodied technology an interview with this experimental choreographer by Nancy Wozny
  • The Choreographic Resource: technologies for understanding dance based on a lecture by researcher-consultant-collaborator Scott deLahunta
  • interview with choreographer William Forsythe on his interactive online project: Synchronous Objects by Marlon Barrios Solano of dance-tech.net
Watch interview here:





Find more videos like this on dance-tech.net
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...plus chapbook 1 ONLINE feature at CQ Article Gallery: Diving the Loop: a computer-mediated choreographic process, by choreographer-media
artist Dawn Stoppiello/Troika Ranch

The 36-page international CQ Dance Directory & Ad Supplement
includes a new directory of dance programs (academic and independent),
display ads, and classified listings for dance-related services and
products. This publication covers ongoing programs and special events
through January 2011.

The Dance Directory and Dance Map classifieds are also posted on our public website. print version: 36
pp.; $5 plus S&H


If you missed the print deadline and want to list your dance program on the web version of our Dance Directory or
Dance Map, you can, anytime! See New Online Ad Opportunity below.

Please contact info@contactquarterly.com
if you'd like a few copies of the Directory to distribute at your event
this summer.
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Hello all, I just got this information from Liz Waterhouse, dancer of the Forsythe Company. Great talk by William Forsythe & Alva Noë Dance and Consciousness Talk @ the New York Public Library Friday, October 9, 2009 at 1:00 PM Celeste Bartos Forum Stephen A. Schwarzman Building 5th Avenue and 42nd Street (directions) $25 general admission and $15 library donors, students and seniors with valid identification. http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/pep/pepdesc.cfm?id=5847 "World-renowned choreographer William Forsythe and cognitive scientist Alva Noë, author of Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness, examine consciousness as a kind of dance. Together they will explore Noë’s assertion that consciousness is not something that happens inside of us, in our brains, or anywhere else. It is something we do, in our active engagement with the world." Watch dance-tech.interview with Alva Noë Watch dance-tech.interview with William Forsythe
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We are featuring in dance-techTV three related interviews: William Forsythe, philosopher Alva Noë and Lisa Nelson... Watch them and discover the connections! Bonus: watch the trailer preview of Forsythe's Synchronous Object project. Watch them in the loop or one by one in the Video on demand section.
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Hello Dance-techers! this is Marlon, the network producer. Welcome all new members! Explore all dance-tech.net interactive features (blogging, forums and groups, chat room, video and photo sharing ) and engage in multiple conversations. Notice that you can personalize your page design and formatting. Explore the benefits for members! This is your network and you make it with your participation! News about dance-tech.net: Golden Nica 2009 Nomination on Digital Communities for dance-tech.net: In the beginning of March, I received an email from the Digital Communities Committee for the Ars Electronica's Golden Nica 2009 award, letting me know that our community was nominated for the award. This is so exiting and important! Just the fact that we were nominated is an important indicator of the relevance of our know how and that we are doing a good job in sharing knowledge and innovation. I believe that we have a lot of possibilities of winning. Keep rockin'! Using the network for teaching: More a more teachers and instructors are using the network for teaching in their courses, either using the videos to illustrate concepts or surveying the field. Some of them are formally creating groups for their classes or study groups. Thank you to initiators Rachel Boggia (Wesleyan University), Ellen Bromberg (University of Utah) and Grisha Coleman (Arts, Media and Engineering for Arizona State University). Share with us if you are using the network for teaching or educational projects...also how are you collaborating creating new methods or strategies in its use? what are your student responses? Research on Networking Dance Cultures: I am writing this from Dresden. I just started a three months research trip exploring the possibilities of our network to augment the potential for translocal knowledge exchange and study the complexities of open platforms of information sharing across boundaries of countries, cultures, disciplines, technologies and bodies. I will be in Dresden for 10 days sharing with the Forsythe Company while they are in residency performing (I will interview Bill Forsythe and some of his powerhouse creative team). I will also be preparing for a think tank on the future of performance and new media that will take place in Prague during Enter4, an exciting Conference on Art, Science and Technology. Amsterdan, Beirut, Tunisia, Lausanne , Geneva, Annecy and Madrid are in the roadmap.I will be writing and video blogging intensively and let me know if you are around any of this places:We might meet up! This research adventure is made possible in part with the support of Geneva Based Gilles Jobin Company and the Trans Media Akademie Hellerau, Dresden. Their support is helping us to realize this vision of an open forum for free exchange of knowledge for our community. Thank you again! Special thanks to the directors of Dance New Amsterdam, where I work in NYC as a social networking specialist, for creating a sabbatical format that is allowing me to work remotely and to integrate this research on future innovative educational and audience development programs. Movement Research Festival prepares for a Global Distributed performance in Dance-techTV network: Dance-techTV is co-producing with the Movement Research Spring festival 2009 As the World Turns: a distributed collaborative performance experiment. The performance will be broadcasted using Movement ResearchTV, a new channel created by the new dance-techTV collaborative broadcasting platform. From the Festival Program: "Launching from the Beirut International Platform of Dance/BIPOD, and traveling around the world, this experiment in distributed performance will be a global game of telephone as each city’s choreographer adds to the dance conversation." As The World Turns culminates in NYC where the public can participate Participating cities include: Brazil, England,France, Lebanon, Sweden, and the US. dance-techTV collaborative broadcasting Would you like to produce your own internet HD video channel for your company, art venue, festival, school or creative experiments in any language and from anywhere in the world!? Would you like to enjoy the benefits of broadcasting for an engaged and innovative community? would you like to be an initiator in this project? Ideas? Questions? Email me at marlon@dance-tech.net and put "my dance-techTV channel" in the subject of the email. I will email you the details. This project is made possible with a spacial partnership with Mogulus and don't forget to: SUPPORT DANCE-TECH.NET
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The web-based "Synchronous Objects" launches tomorrow at Ohio State University. I just wrote the following introductory post about this project on Great Dance:"William Forsythe's "Synchronous Objects" at OSU Tomorrow"The purpose of this investigation is to develop new approaches to visualizing the underlying structures of a dance--in this instance, Forsythe's "One Flat Thing, reproduced."I'll be writing more about Synchronous Objects once it's up on the OSU website.Best,Doug FoxGreat Dance
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I interviewed the digital musician and performer Joel Ryan at STEIM in Amsterdam. 3/8/08. This is his bio: (he has been around!)

Spawned in the first generation of computer music hackers in San Francisco’s silicon valley, Joel Ryan is a composer who has long championed the idea of performance-based electronic music. Drawing on his scientific background, he pioneered the application of digital signal processing to acoustic instruments. At STEIM in Amsterdam since 1984, he has collaborated extensively with artists and musicians including Evan Parker, William Forsyth, George Lewis, Steina Vasulka and Jerry Hunt. Formerly a Research Associate in physics at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories of the University of California, he has taught philosophy, physics, and mathematics. He is a researcher at STEIM in Amsterdam, tours with the Frankfurt Ballet and is Docent in Sonology at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. He has performed at the Theater Chatelet in Paris, the Concertgebau Amsterdam, the Pit Inn in Tokyo, Brooklyn Academy of Music and The Kitchen in New York. Recent work includes a series of duets with Evan Parker,Frances Marie Uitti and Joelle Leandre, EIDOS/TELOS, with William Forsyth and Roberto Zucco with the Royal Shakespear Company. Other works include Or Air, The Number Readers, Hat Moon Joy, and The Effect of Noise on the Sleep of Children. MMVI http://www.xs4all.nl/~jr/
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