Study-Unit Description

Study-Unit Description


CODE DCS2007

 
TITLE Technology and Interdisciplinary Performance 1

 
UM LEVEL 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course

 
MQF LEVEL Not Applicable

 
ECTS CREDITS 5

 
DEPARTMENT Dance Studies

 
DESCRIPTION This is one of two study-units designed to bring together collaboration and devising practices with interdisciplinary work and to explore the artistic opportunities presented by selected forms of technology. In the first semester, students will examine (through play, practice and theory) how technology (e.g. digital video, animation or motion capture) can change attitudes to composition and to modes of presentation; how interactive technologies can alter perception of dynamic and space; the interactive installation; outside/inside locations; live and virtual performers; web-based collaboration; a range of art/science collaborations, through a number of specific case studies which exemplify this synthesis. Students will visualise and plan a specific performative event for the second semester.

Study-unit Aims

- To help students achieve expertise in the use of various technical apparatus necessary to realise the demands of production in recorded media;
- To facilitate new technologies such as film and sound editing, sampling and composition, and digital and media arts;
- To engage in collaborative research;
- To identify and interpret technological frameworks which may surround performance events;
- To take these into account with creativity and imagination in planning the creation of performances.

Learning Outcomes

1. Knowledge & Understanding:

By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to:

- Achieve sufficient knowledge in the use of various technical apparatus necessary to realise the demands of production in live performance and/or recorded media;
- Use selected new technologies such as film and sound editing, sampling and composition, and digital and media arts;
- Engage in collaborative research in small groups;
- Identify and interpret technological frameworks which surround performance events and take these into account in creating and/or interpreting performances.

2. Skills:

By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to:

- Describe, theorise, interpret and evaluate performance texts and performance events which embrace technology from a range of critical perspectives use a selection of techniques within these frameworks to initiate and undertake the generation and analysis of data and information;
- Effectively communicate information, ideas and analysis in digital media forms.

Main Text/s and any supplementary readings

Indicative Bibliography:

- Broadhurst, Susan and J. Machon (eds.) 2012. Identity, Performance and Technology: Practices of Empowerment, Embodiment and Technicity (Palgrave)
- Carver, G. and C. Beardon. (eds) 2004. New Visions in Performance: The Impact of Digital Technologies (Netherlands: Swets & Zeitlinger)
- Dixon, Steve. 2007. Digital Performance: a History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation (Mass: MIT Press)- Dodds, S (2004) Dance on Screen, Palgrave
- Dunham, R. 2015. Stage Lighting: Fundamentals and Application, (New York: Routledge)
- Laumond, J.P., and M. Abe. 2015. Dance Notations and Robot Motion, (Springer)
- Kozel, Susan. 2007. Closer: Performance, Technology, Phenomenology (MIT Press)
- Popat, Sita and S. Palmer. 2009. 'Dancing with Sprites and Robots' in Jo Butterworth and Liesbeth Wildschut (eds.) Contemporary Choreography: a critical reader (London and NY: Routledge)
- Dinkla, S. & Leeker, M. 2002. Dance and technology: moving towards media productions (Berlin: Alexander Verlag Berlin)
- Giannachi, Gabriella. 2004. Virtual Theatres: an introduction (London: Routledge)
- Hopgood, Jeromy. 2015. Dance Production: Design and Technology (Focal Press)
- McPherson, Katrina. 2006. Making Video Dance: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dance for the Screen, (London: Routledge)- Mitoma, J (2003) Envisioning Dance on Film and Video, Routledge
- Rosenberg, D. 2015. The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies, (New York: Oxford University Press)
- Rubidge, Sarah. 2009, 'Performing Installations' in Jo Butterworth and Liesbeth Wildschut (eds.) Contemporary Choreography: a critical reader (London and NY: Routledge)
- Scheer, Edward and Rosemary Klich. 2011. Multimedia Performance (Palgrave)

Websites:

www.xsens.com/en/company-pages/company/mo-cap
www.choreocog.net
http://www.dance-tech.net/
www.embamb.com
www.carolbrowndances.com
www.trajets.net
www.sensuousgeographies.co.uk
Videography
Happy Feet
Atavar

 
ADDITIONAL NOTES Pre-requisite Study-unit: DCS1010

 
STUDY-UNIT TYPE Lecture, Independent Study and Group Learning

 
METHOD OF ASSESSMENT
Assessment Component/s Sept. Asst Session Weighting
Assignment Yes 100%

 
LECTURER/S Paula Guzzanti Ferrer

 

 
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