Places We Call Home: Representing Place and Identity in Contemporary Dance Performance

The Fauna: a Place to Call Home

The Fauna: a Place to Call Home

The Fauna: a Place to Call Home

Style-based Robotic Motion in Contemporary Dance Performance

This chapter reviews a framework for generating robotic motion and describes its application in a performance at Georgia Institute of Technology. In particular, the movement model stems from the view that cannons of basic warm-up exercises in formalized movement genres, such as classical ballet, seed more complex phrases. This model employs a separation of basic movement ordering and execution....

Process of Improvisational Contemporary Dance

The purpose of this study is to investigate the process of improvisational contemporary dance. To achieve this goal, we combine two types of methodology: analysis of data from interviews with dancers and analysis of their dance performances. Our findings reveal that while dancing, in order to create their movements, improvisational dancers interact with various stimuli that come from inside and...