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(Dance) Notation Series- Research Encounters
Reading/writing dance
Feb 4th
This event will be streamed LIVE in dance-tech.tv
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Three different speakers will present their projects and perspectives in relation to the reading and writing of dance. Kerstin Evert dance teacher and researcher will present the research project IDOCDE an online databse for dance education, choreographer Emilie Gallier will talk about her new work Synchronicity a reading dance performance and Carla Fernandes cognitive linguistic researcher will introduce the development and status of the Transmedia Knowledge Base for contemporary Dance project.
Kerstin Evert; coordinator of the IDODEC project, a network of twelve European dance educators around the development of an online database that will develop and document best practices of contemporary dance education, to improve networking among contemporary dance educators and to increase visibility of this vibrant art form. IN order to do so an online platform is being designed where tagging, defining groups and developing writen documents on dance education are main goals. Evert will introduce the project and expose some of the challanges in relation to writing dance.
Carla Fernandes is assistant Professor at IPLeiria and Senior Researcher at the New University of Lisbon. Her current research focus is in the intersection of cognitive linguistics and the performing arts, particularly concerning the creation of multimodal corpora, digital archives and new documentation models. She coordinates the state-funded international research project TKB: “A Transmedia Knowledge Base for contemporary dance”, a research project in the interstices between cognitive linguistics and contemporary dance studies. TKB is an extensive and transdisciplinay project aiming at the design and construction of an open-ended multimodal knowledge base to document, annotate and support the creation of contemporary dance piece. Fernandes will present the project focusing on the process of annotations and descriptions of movements.
Emilie Gallier; is choreographer, researcher, director of the PØST Cie. Gallier will present her project Synchronicity a performance, book publication of a poem, and the choreography on paper (score), together with an essay written by Daniel Rovers (writer). This publication is a platform for the choreographer to probe the writing of movements of thoughts, and to turn to the spectator as reader, observer, and performer.
you can register for for encounter on the 4th, by sending an email with your name, email address and telephone number to francieneppens@ickamsterdam.nl
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11h00-15h00 Central Europe Time
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