hello all: I thought it is such a rare occasion that it needs to be mentioned and acknowledged here, namely that a dance critic --- Sanjoy Roy in the late summer issue of "Contemporary" (London) --- enters into an insightful and close discussion of the work and then refers to research underlying the piece: in this case, Wayne Mc Gregor (Random Dance Co.) and the new "AtaXia", connected to "Choreography & Cognition," a research-collaboration organised by Scott deLahunta. All of this gets mentioned in the review, and interpretive relations are set up between the research undertaking and the compositional and presentational aspects of the dance, its design and expressions, its hypermusical energy (the score is by Michael Gordon who also wrote, if I am not mistaken, the energizing/enervating music for the film "Decasia"). The review also includes a reference to the research website (!), <http://www.choreocog.net> http://www.choreocog.net. I think I had asked for responses to AtaXia earlier here on this list, when we had the long and involved debate in June on e-MERGE (Performance-Lecture-Demonstration: A creative investigation into emergence theory), and on dance - science collaborations and convergences. For many of us, issues of collaboration come up frequently, in the pre-production and production processes, but also, I anticipate, they will come up with full force for those practitioners in our schools who might be involved in a getting a research degree (in the UK now called PAR, practice-as-research or practice-based Phd degrees) in new media-dance or performance; regarding the distributed research development of AtaXia, I would of course be interested to learn more about it, since it is mentioned, on Random's website [<http://www.randomdance.org/>http://www.randomdance.org/] , that AtaXia's exploration of "loss of control" was done by "drawing on a new team of expertly attuned associates from the diverse worlds of neuroscience, composition, psychology, design, and computer programming... AtaXia challenges the very fabric of collaboration. Its a creative friction that confounds expectation." Okay, enough confounding, can we hear some feedback on this particular work, or comments from those who were involved? with regards Johannes Birringer Interaktionslabor Göttelborn <http://interaktionslabor.de>http://interaktionslabor.de LAtela Nottingham --------------030101030205040008070703-- ---------------------------------------- The Dance-Tech mailing list has recently moved to a new address. To post a message, send email to dance-tech@dancetechnology.org. To unsubscribe, send email to lists@dancetechnology.org, with the words "unsubscribe dance-tech" in the message body. ----------------------------------------
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