Brunel Seminar 09: Sita Popat - Scott Palmer | Dancing Sprites and Digitized Spaces: Collaborative Research in Choreography, Scenography and Technology - Videos

February 25, 2009 Drama Studio 16:oo-17:30 pm Sita Popat / Scott Palmer "Dancing Sprites and Digitized Spaces: Collaborative Research in Choreography, Scenography and Technology" This seminar presents a five-year collaboration between performance academics at the University of Leeds and commercial digital artists KMA Creative Technology Ltd. Popat and Palmer discuss how the academy/industry relationship has facilitated knowledge exchange and resulted in a combination of research and consultancy activities, including Dancing in the Streets (2005) and Projecting Performance (2006-8). These projects bring together dance, scenography and digital art, exploring interactive interfaces between dancer, operator and computer. Projecting Performance was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Sita Popat is Senior Lecturer in Dance at University of Leeds. Her research interests centre on dance choreography and new technologies. She is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. Scott Palmer is Lecturer in Scenography at University of Leeds. His research interests focus on scenography, lighting design and the interaction between technology and performance. He is the author of the Hodder and Stoughton Essential Guide to Stage Management, Lighting and Sound and he is currently completing A Lighting Reader for the Palgrave Macmillan Theatre Practices series. The Centre broadcasts selected Performance Research Seminars live from the Brunel Drama Studio - making them available to anyone in the world interested in the subject. Johannes Birringer and Marlon Barrios Solano are co-producing the talks and discussions as live webcasts webcast live on dance tech net TV . The partnership between the Centre and dance-techTV, is an experiment in collaborative video broadcasting (the channel is dedicated to interdisciplinary explorations of the performance of movement. The channel allows worldwide 24/7 linear broadcasting of selected programs, LIVE streaming and Video On-demand).

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