The costume designer as co-author of contemporary dance performance: Erika Turunen’s signature style

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....

The Document Style Designer as a separate Entity

An argument for the need for a programmable meta format: a format that introduces a new syntactic level in TEX for document style designers. TEX has a number of characteristics that set it apart from all other text processors. Its unsurpassed quality of text setting and its capabilities for handling mathematics are some of the more visible aspects. On a deeper level, however, the extreme progra...

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...

Costume Languages as Pattern Languages

In media science, the concept of the costume language is only vaguely defined. We propose a formal definition of this concept, which is based on the concept of pattern languages. In order to derive the patterns of such a language we introduce a method that supports capturing knowledge about clothes, identifying costumes based on clothes and abstracting costumes into costume patterns. Thus, cost...

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