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Electronic Traces: Bringing dance movements to digital life
Today's technologies, including compact digital cameras embedded within dancers' accessories and precision-designed camera lenses capable of capturing even the minutest movements, have revolutionized motion recording in dance..
Technical skills, including: action content (eg travel, turn, elevation, gesture, stillness, use of different body parts, floor work, transfer of weight) dynamic content (eg fast/slow, sudden/sustained, acceleration/deceleration, strong/light, direct/indirect, flowing/abrupt).
A dictionary definition of dance technique might be – the way in which the dancer uses basic physical movements in performance or the ability to use fundamental physical movements effectively.
In casual usage it has come to refer to a style of dance or movement vocabulary..
The terms dance technology and Dance and Technology refer to application of modern information technology in activities related to dance: in dance education, choreography, performance, and research..
And while it may not seem intuitive that digital tools can enhance, or even preserve, the physical properties of dance, in moderation, technology can be infused with dance in a way that still centers on and celebrates the human body
Through my own practice, I have discovered that engaging with technology as an implicit agent in the creation and formation of movement, a dancer can be encouraged to re-engage, at a fundamental level, with how she generates and essentially perceives movement
Through an analysis of the author’s own practice, Francksen explores how technology can change the ways in which dancers produce, engage with, and ultimately create movement
In so doing, this chapter promotes the experiential awareness of the dancer as key to appreciating the affordances of technology in dance specific to our digital age