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  Dance notation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dance notation is the symbolic representation of dance movement, it is analogous to Movement notation but can be limited to representing human movement and specific forms of dance such as Tap dance.
The primary use of dance notation is the documentation, analysis and reconstruction of choreography and dance forms or technical exercises.
Neagle, R.J. and Ng, K.C. Machine-representation and Visualisation of a Dance Notation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dance_notation   (545 words)

  
 FSU Dance - Dance Technology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The FSU Department of Dance is piloting numerous initiatives in the field of dance technology.
FSU Dance is a member of the Association for Dance and Performance Telematics.
Dance Beyond the Stage is a collage of video excerpts illustrating the emerging art form of dance video at the FSU Department of Dance.
dance.fsu.edu /program_elements/dance_technology.html   (2618 words)

  
 McMaster Centre for Dance - Dance and Technology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Dance we create, dance we maintain, dance speaks the language we understand and we do our very best to perpetuate dance.
Technology has revolutionized the way we see things and perhaps the way we create dance - just like many others have already thought, of how sensational it has become for dance to have finally merged with technology.
This section of our website is dedicated to aid in creation of awareness on the subject "Dance and Technology" with a focus on exploring a world of myriad possibilities that dance artists and companies can benefit from through accessing technological innovation.
www.mcmaster.ca /dance/dtpage.html   (381 words)

  
 FSU Press Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Students learn how to use technology to enhance their performances and the art of documenting and preserving them - which is the core of dance technology.
The class combines choreography and multimedia to enhance a dance performance, and is taught by Assistant Professor Tim Glenn, Assistant in Dance Jack Clark and Jeffrey Rolf, the director of the department's Music Resource Center.
Glenn says the technology gives students the option of creating multimedia dance theater, using video images to create an infinite range of settings, layered images or the illusion of a larger or deeper stage.
www.fsu.edu /~unicomm/pages/releases/2002_10/release_2002_10_08a.html   (692 words)

  
 new   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
I don't see that dance performing and dance and technology are separate - The computer technology is simply an element of the performance, as is the lighting technology, the sound technology and the costume technology.
Dance and technology is a vast umbrella that covers many aspects of performance, creation and recording of dance.
The dance on the screen is only as positive, negative, or "narrow" as the work produced for it, exactly the same as dance for the stage.
dpa.ntu.ac.uk /dpa_site/papers/popat2.htm   (1704 words)

  
 CEDFA--Technology in Dance
The integration of technology into dance education must be well-planned, organized, and comprehensive.
For example, interactive technology enables students to learn at their own pace, making decisions within the structure of the program about what, and how, they learn.
Technology should strengthen a district's curricula and strategies for teaching the Dance TEKS, providing another means of engaging students in meaningful learning.
finearts.esc20.net /dance/dance_strategies/da_strat_tech.html   (468 words)

  
 20th century concert dance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Although technically 20th century concert dance, the following dance forms are considered under the separate category of Ballet or 20th century ballet:
Postmodern dance falls under two catergories due to its complex nature (see Postmodernism).
Choreographers using a postmodernist process may produce works that are classical, romantic, expressionist, modernist or postmodernist (etc) in appearance (see Postmodernism).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/20th_century_concert_dance   (323 words)

  
 Results in
The dance department's Multimedia Learning Center is equipped with eight Macintosh G4 computers to help students compose sound scores for their choreography and build Web sites for the purpose of putting their resumes online.
In 1983, Dr. Judith Gray, then assistant professor of dance at UW, organized the first UW Dance and Technology Conference so that dancers throughout the country who were beginning to work with technology could share information.
And at universities across the country, dance technologists are researching dance performances of the future.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1083/is_2_77/ai_97174131   (380 words)

  
 networked_performance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Dance practitioners, scholars and historians, as well as researchers in culture studies and other related social sciences, are welcome to participate in and contribute to this dialogue.
It combines dance, theatre, and interactively generated video imagery to explore the polarities of being animal and being human; the former being dictated solely by the need to survive and reproduce, the latter being a state of confusion created when these basic instincts are blurred by intellect.
Joumana holds a Diploma in Dance Studies from the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance and an MA in Dance and Choreography from Middlesex University.
www.turbulence.org /blog/archives/cat_networked_dance.html   (13626 words)

  
 Computer technology accompanies dance choreography
This is the first collaboration between the dance department and the School of Technology.
Many students participate in dance as an elective in their education or take dance to enhance their performing skills if they are involved in related programs, such as theater or music.
Carol Cunningham, dance professor in the School of Liberal Arts, teamed with faculty and students from the School of Technology to integrate video game and motion picture technology into her dance choreography.
www.purdue.edu /UNS/html3month/050605.Cunningham.Dance.G.html   (581 words)

  
 Sampling... convergences between dance and technology
Digital Dancing is unique in that it focusses on artists making work ñ rather than on conferences and discussions which have been the defining characteristic of another series of ëdance and technologyí conferences held in the USA.
His early work with dance and video was groundbreaking both for the new forms it took via his collaborations with Charles Atlas and Elliot Caplan as well as for his often quoted statements about the impact the technology has had on his way of seeing dance.
Essentially the process of the dancer dancing and the camera filming is the same as it was in 1940 when Maya Deren made her film.
www.univie.ac.at /kontext/onlinetxt/scott1.htm   (4563 words)

  
 Maggie Allesee Department of Dance - Technology
Dance Technology is a vital part of the dance department’s teaching and learning, and especially for preparing our students for competitive career advantages.
Two primary parts of dance technology at Wayne State University are the Dance Media Center (DMC) and the Digital Dance Literacy (DDL) curriculum.
Many dance classes are held in this space and dance majors complete assignments, pursue independent creative projects and research, and work on their culminating senior Digital Dance Portfolio in the DMC.
www.dance.wayne.edu /technology.php   (335 words)

  
 Computer technology accompanies dance choreography
Computer technology is being used to capture the dancers' movement, animate it and project it onto three large screens.
"This allows my computer graphic technology students to work with people outside of computer graphics who are not technically oriented, but in creative arts," said Scott Meador, an assistant professor in computer graphics technology who also has a background in theater design and technology, visual art and computer graphics.
The Purdue dance division offers courses in modern, ballet and jazz, as well as the choreography of dance movement; dance performance; and dance appreciation.
news.uns.purdue.edu /UNS/html4ever/030421.Cunningham.vpa.html   (695 words)

  
 dance and technology
Younger artists who have been exposed to dance and technology and demonstrate strong organizational skills and self-direction are also of interest.
Students are encouraged to take advantage of courses in dance technique (modern, ballet, social dance, non-western forms), improvisation, somatics (pilates, yoga, dance dynamics, Alexander Technique, Viewpoints, tai chi, etc.) and the martial arts.
Prospective DandT Students should demonstrate excellence in at least one of the following: dance and choreographic practice, uses of technology in dance documentation/preservation and education, multimedia or other technological tools, or critical theories of the body/arts research with a focus on the body or performance.
www.dance.ohio-state.edu /4_degree_programs/dance_technology.html   (375 words)

  
 Integrative Arts and Technology
The University of Utah's Department of Modern Dance has become involved in these developments by producing works that utilize technology and visual media (video and computer generated), and by engaging in the resultant critical and aesthetic discourse.
Artistic investigation has historically collaborated with technological advancements, and research in the area of Dance and Technology is at the forefront of scholarly inquiry in the arts.
The University of Utah Department of Modern Dance is a participating member of a new association called ADAPT (Association for the Advancement of Dance and Performance Telematics).
www.dance.utah.edu /technology   (286 words)

  
 Department of Dance | Technology
The Department of Dance has created a new special program in Dance and Technology as part of the MFA program in dance at Arizona State University.
Technologies available to students include interactive performance systems, high speed networks for work in tele-presence and distributed performance, and capabilities for creating multimedia performances.
The dance program at Arizona State provides an environment of innovative and provocative learning for students who wish to pursue the study of Dance as artists, teachers, and scholars.
dance.asu.edu /programs/technology.html   (213 words)

  
 Terra Dance Company
Dance is a form of learned behavior common to most cultures since the beginning of humankind.
Dance is a tool by which individuals or a group of people describe the world in which they live.
She has received a B.F.A. in Dance with emphasis on Performance and Choreography from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a M.F.A. in Dance with emphasis on Performance and Choreography from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
www.public.asu.edu /~icpzv   (795 words)

  
 FSU Dance - Faculty Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This technology repertory experience was accompanied by a public presentation on dance technology.
This dance was restaged on the Jazzworks Dance Company of Madison, WI in the summer of 2002 and on a company of undergraduate dancers at FSU in the fall of 2002.
Dance from the Quill: Reimagining Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock is a dance documentary DVD-ROM/CD-ROM set.
dance.fsu.edu /people/research/Glenn.html   (929 words)

  
 Maggie Allesee Department of Dance - Home Page
The Maggie Allesee Department of Dance is one of the oldest and most respected dance departments in the US.
Fifteen diverse dance faculty are nationally known for their work in technique, choreography, Pilates, and dance technology.
Our nationally accredited program currently maintains an enrollment of 60 dance majors, a third of whom are consistently named to the Dean’s List and continue to distinguish themselves as Presidential Scholars, Wayne Scholars, and McNair Scholar Program recipients.
www.dance.wayne.edu /index2.php   (152 words)

  
 UMBC Department of Dance - Dance & Technology
Choreographers are incorporating new technologies into their work, using sensors, projected images, and multimedia to create rich imagery with live dance performance.
DANC 340 Dance and Technology, was first taught in the spring of 2002, and is required for students working toward a B.A. in Dance.
The course introduces students to contemporary approaches to documenting and preserving the art of dance as well as to creating choreographic methods that utilize cameras, sensors and interactivity.
www.umbc.edu /dance/text/danceTech.htm   (484 words)

  
 Summer Dance and Technology '05
John D. Mitchell currently directs the graduate emphasis in Dance and Technology and teaches interdisciplinary media and telematics courses in the Department of Dance at Arizona State University.
A dual citizen of Israel and the United States, Sharir was the founder of the American Deaf Dance Company, which pioneered the inclusion of deaf artists in professional dance.
He is a frequent keynote speaker at arts and technology conferences and symposia in the USA and around the world.
dance.asu.edu /sdat05/leaders.html   (779 words)

  
 Meridian: Jul 99: Dance with Technology
A group of young dancers may sit on the polished wooden floor, watching as another cluster of students begins work on the choreography for their next performance.
The phrases the students are trying out on the floor are directly related to the movement of the three-dimensional figures dancing within the computer.
These dance phrases develop simultaneously at some points, transactionally at others.
www.ncsu.edu /meridian/jul99/dance   (229 words)

  
 TeachingArts.org : Dance : Model Programs > Technology in Arts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It promotes and presents research about dance and technology, links to artists and events, and creates a shared resource of practical information for artists and educators on how to use technology with dance.
The Dance Technology Project was a collaborative project between the Atlanta Ballet and Georgia Tech's Robert Ferst Center for the Arts, sponsored by Georgia Tech's Interactive Media Technology Center.
As performances evolved, more sophisticated technology was utilized: 3D motion picture capture, real-time 3D graphics, body cams, interactive infra-red sensors, laser sensors, dance pads, real-time visual and audio manipulation, remote data process and visualization, and more.
www.teachingarts.org /dance/directory/25/modelPrograms/technologyInArts   (801 words)

  
 Live Art Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Digital technologies challenge our techniques of dance and performance, customary perceptions of culturally embodied knowledge and sensory processing, and assumptions about choreography, composition, and the relations between maker, performer, and audience.
The central aim of this international lab meeting in November-December 2005 is to take stock of the evolution of contemporary dance (technology), and develop a new understanding of interaction design and physical computing in the dance and performance field through critical engagement with the consequences of interactivity on contemporary digital cultures.
The theoretical scope of the project encompasses an analysis of "digital cultures" in interactive dance based on the findings of an international and cross-cultural lab with the participation of 20 or 25 distinguished choreographers, composers, performance and media artists, programmers, and designers.
art.ntu.ac.uk /performance_research/birringer/idat.htm   (979 words)

  
 PALATINE Directory: Dance Technology
Through the use of telecommunications and high performance technologies, the Institute reaches out across the campus, state, nation, and the world to share new tools and opportunities with creative people everywhere.
REVIEW: Amanda Steggell argues that dance has too long been left out of investigations with technology and that there is much that dance has to offer these new cyber worlds.
Palindrome was a dance company based in New York City from 1982 to 1989, and in Nürnberg, Germany after that.
www.palatine.org.uk /directory/index.php/Dance/DanceTechnologyAndMu/dtech   (877 words)

  
 Dance Technology - References
While dealing with dance and technology, it does not cover issues of computer dance notation.
Birringer, Johannes, "Dancing with Technologies," in La scena digitale: nuovi media per la danza, ed.
Dance and Technology I: Moving Toward the Future.
www.notam02.no /icma/interactivesystems/dance_references.html   (1125 words)

  
 Dance - Dance Companies, Education, Research, Technology
Focused on dance and physical education in the U.S. National Dance Education Organization
Focused on dance as education in the U.S. Tamalpa Institute
Dance archives of the New York Public Library
www.netweed.com /dance   (134 words)

  
 WMU News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
KALAMAZOO -- Choreography by three faculty members and a guest artist will be on tap Nov. 7-10 when the dance department at Western Michigan University presents a Dance Technology Concert in the Dalton Center Multi Media Room.
The concert will feature innovations in the merging of dance and technology by WMU faculty and guest artist Jan Erkert, an award-winning choreographer from Chicago.
Cobb will premiere a multi-media choreodrama that celebrates the life and work of Joe Nash, a preeminent fl dance historian and archivist of African American dance memorabilia.
www.wmich.edu /wmu/news/2002/0210/0203-098.html   (252 words)

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