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Digital dance: (dis)entangling human and technology
Gündüz, Z.
Publication date 2012
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Gündüz, Z. (2012). Digital dance: (dis)entangling human and technology. Rozenberg Publishers.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements 8
Introduction
0.0 A peculiar duet 11
0.1 Digital dance: an interdisciplinary field 17
0.2 The interactive system 20
0.3 Introducing the objects of analysis 22
0.4 Outline of chapters 24
CHAPTER 1.
Introducing ‘The hierarchy of perceptual importance’:
Human-centered conventions in dance, theatre, and performance
1.0 Introduction 28
1.1 Staging the hierarchy in theater: 19th century 32 1.2 Staging the hierarchy in dance: 19th century 34 1.3 Artistic hierarchies in the cultural practice of theatre and dance: creation and
perception 41
1.4 Counter-practices: performing technologies in dance, theater, and performance in the 20s and 60s, and their recursion in the 1990s 45
1.5 Conclusion 55
CHAPTER 2.
Shifts in roles and relationships within the cultural practice of
digital dance
2.0 Introduction 58
2.1 The making of Apparition 60
2.2 Changes in cultural practices of dance: creation 62
A. Technically distributed authorship
B. Additional technical knowledge required from the choreographer and dancer C. Adjustments via restrictions on spatiality, temporality, and technical virtuosity D. Restrictions: limitation or liberation?
E. Looking beyond the human in staged digital dance
2.3 Changes in cultural practices of dance: reception 80
2.4 Conclusion 89
CHAPTER 3.
Applied concepts in the literature on digital dance
3.0 Introduction 92
3.1 Anxieties surrounding technological incorporations in the first and last decades of the
twentieth century 95
3.2 The conceptual foundations of digital dance: counterbalancing virtual disembodiment
in the 1990s 99
3.3 Human-centered concepts in digital dance literature 108
A. From frozen to live media
B. Body incorporates the technology: Metaphysical Extension C. Body and technology “in dialogue”?
3.4 Conclusion 129
CHAPTER 4.
Technological performance in staged digital dance
4.0 Introduction 132
4.1 From quantity to quality: The effectiveness of technological performance 135 4.2 Establishing evaluative criteria of technological performance for digital dance 141 4.3 Analyzing technological performance in digital dance 149
A. Quantification of technological performance
B. Qualitative dimensions of technological performance
4.4 Discussion of the framework of technological performance 165
4.5 Conclusion 167
CHAPTER 5.
Interperformance: a posthuman perspective of digital dance
5.0 Introduction 170
5.1 Performance as (technical) skills 173
5.2 Machinic performers 182
5.3 Human and non-human agencies 188
5.4 Replacing interactivity with interperformance 193 5.5 Posthuman encounters in theatre, dance, and performance 198
5.6 Conclusion 201
Conclusion
6.1 From assistants to performers: the changing role of computer technologies in digital
dance 203
6.2 Unpredictable technological agents 205
Bibliography
Appendices
1. Changes in European theatrical presentation 213 2. Changes in European theatrical dance presentation 214
3. Stage plan of Apparition 215
4. Dixon’s model of interactivity 216
Summaries
English summary 218
Nederlandse samenvatting 220
