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Hi Kent,
I think you've cracked it !!!
Some people who want to make new dance with
technology and those who will pursue new forms of
technology simply for the sake of it.
In Manchester, UK we have had various dancetech companies visit us.
On the occasion the software breaks down we are
left with a frozen image and people dancing in
front of it who we can watch , when this happens
with tech reliant based work, we are left
sometimes with nothing of interest to look at.
"Without the dance there is nothing."
Quote Kema T. Ekpei 2004
Another point is the use of language used in the
list, I consider myself to have a good grasp of
English and educated to a high level, yet I have
difficulties understanding points made, if points
are being made.
For our non first language English users, some
posts here must be indecipherable.
This is from Johannes:
I don't understand what the last sentence means,
I know about the relevance of Judson in dance
terms but what are you saying?
It occurred to me, during the recent NOTTdance
Festival in Nottingham, which featured some of
the most well-known Konzepttanz people (Jérôme
Bel, Xavier LeRoy, Willi Dorner), installations,
film, story telling, work in progress,
rehearsals, and one choreography (by Déjà Donné),
hilariously, the festival indeed featured
not-dance and not-choreography, however
excitingly and engagingly (sometimes) decorated,
{ with the conceptualist and deconstructive
self-reflexive philosophies of current
retro-Judson refusals to dance....}
There has been calls for critiques in the list;
by critique do we mean review or critique.
For example Matt after Isabel:
[perhaps we are missing not the artist/s but the
critical theorist (our sally banes) who will not
only subject the dance tech works to critical
evaluation but develop a theory based on the
properties of the works rather than individual
authors desire for uniqueness and general
resistance to categorisation and common
terminology.]
Why do we need critical theorists?
For example Jane Turners e-MERGE, I was involved
in the initial discussions for the work, I
thought blue tooth earpieces would be easier to
wear for the dancers and with many blue tooth
appliances available it would be easy to
interface with various devices.
Jane replied to Matt's comments/essay I say essay because of the bibliography.
Isabel
I understand critical theorists are needed in
University Research departments when working on
past works, BUT all the work here is newly
created by living people.
Instead of guessing and treating new work like a
newly found Nijinsky ballet why not simply ask
the choreographer for your answers.
The last animation I made was called virtuasitytwo
http://www.kema.org.uk/dancetech3danim.html
For interest would anyone like to review or
critique this work for me or pass it on to their
research students, I would happy to feedback on
their findings.
there are three downloads
http://www.kema.org.uk/virt2qt.html 2.7mb
http://www.kema.org.uk/virt2qtlarge.html 8.9mb
http://www.kema.org.uk/graphs/virt2win.wmv 3.8mb
Does anyone else have work online that could be shared and discussed?
Thanks to Johannes, Isabel, Matt, Scott, Max, Jane
thanks
Kema
>There is a widening chasm between those of us
>who want to incorporate new technologies into
>primarily dance-based works, and those who are
>interested in pursuing new forms, regardless of
>what the resulting mix of media will be. Our
>values will out, and mine are with dance. I
>rarely go to the kinds of new music festivals
>that others have been reporting about recently
>because, even when there is movement
>incorporated into the works, it never measures
>up to my standard, which is the following: if
>all of the technology was gone, would this
>movement by these people still be compelling?
>That's one guys opinion, anyway.
--
Kema T. Ekpei Esq.
kema@kema.org.uk
www.kema.org.uk
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