The terms dance technology and Dance and Technology refer to application of modern

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in activities related to dance: in dance

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,"Dance Teaching Methods and Curriculum Design", by Gayle Kassing, Danielle Mary Jay
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/ref> choreography,"Leaping into Dance Technology"
Jeffrey Bary, ''Connect: Information Technology at NYU'', Fall 2002 performance, and research.Dance Technology Current Applications and Future Trends, Judith A. Gray (ed.), 1989,

Dance education

In education, dance technology includes various advanced media, such as video, interactive computer programs and internet., as well as training in the use of modern technologies for dance creation.

Dance design

Dance recording and computer choreography

One of the earliest uses of computers for dance were carried out in the 1960s at the

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, where the choreographic process was codified and manipulated by computer, although the results were not published. In the 1970s there were several attempts to computerize the

Labanotation Labanotation (the grammatically correct form "Labannotation" or "Laban notation" is uncommon) is a system for analyzing and recording human movement. The inventor was Rudolf von Laban (1879-1958), a central figure in European modern dance, who ...

and later the Benesh notation. These attempts naturally evolved into attempts to translate the symbolic notations into computer models of the moving human body and further to computer-assisted creation of choreographies.

Dance performance

Dance technology allows for innovative art forms, such as collaborative network performances and ''The Dance Technology Project'',

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and Georgia Institute of Technology, with its first performance, "Non Sequitur,? of a ballerina dancing with a computer animated "virtual" dancer was shown on

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's ''Future Watch'' program, May 1994. Virtual dance allows the exploration of physical and virtual dance and blended realities. The first ballet company to perform in a virtual environment was Ballet Pixelle. Inarra Saarinen is the artistic director and choreographer who creates animations, imports them into the virtual reality environmen
Second Life
and then choreographs using the animations. The avatar dancers are from all over the globe and are not automated in any way but truly dance with each other and the music. Her company began in 2006 and is still performing. Other companies,
ZeroG Skydancers
director DC Spensley (Dancoyote Antonelli), also established in 2006 and also still performing. Integration of live dance performance with dance environment (sound, lighting) was pioneered by Mark Coniglio, whose 1989 MidiDancer measured the angular change at several joints on the dancer's body and used the measurements to control music.

Artists

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* DC Spensley * Susan Kozel * Suguru Goto * Marlon Barrios Solano * John D. Mitchell * Bebe Miller * Troika Ranch *

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* NobleMotion Dance * Palindrome * Jamie Jewett * Boris Willis * Julie Cruse * Arthur Elsenaar * Ashley Friend * Johannes Birringer * Lucia Valentin * Tim Glenn * Yacov Sharir * Nic Sandiland * Kate Sicchio * Inarra Saarinen * Eric Dunlap * Gibson/Martelli (Igloo) * Todd Winkler * Joumana Mourad
IJAD Dance Company

Research

IDAT

Exploration of innovative approaches to harness modern technologies in dance has been reported at the ''International Dance and Technology Conference. It was held at the following locations:
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,'' March 3, 1999 *The University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1992 *Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada, 1993 *York University, Toronto, Canada, 1995 (Proceedings: ) *Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, 1999.

References

External links

Archival footage of a PillowTalk about using modern technology as a medium to transmit modern dance to the public which took place at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, 7/23/2011.Archival footage of Bebe Miller discussing her approach to using Motion Capture technology within her choreography at a PillowTalk at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival on August 23, 2007.Archival footage of Philip Szporer and Marlene Millar discussing 3D dance film in ''PillowTalk: Canadian Dance on Film'' at Jacob's Pillow, 7/3/2010
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Technology Technology is the application of knowledge to reach practical goals in a specifiable and Reproducibility, reproducible way. The word ''technology'' may also mean the product of such an endeavor. The use of technology is widely prevalent in me ...