The terms dance technology and Dance and Technology is the application of modern

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in activities related to

dance Dance is an The arts, art form, consisting of sequences of body movements with aesthetic and often Symbol, symbolic value, either improvised or purposefully selected. Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography, by its repertoir ...

: in dance

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,"Dance Teaching Methods and Curriculum Design", by Gayle Kassing, Danielle Mary Jay
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choreography Choreography is the art of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which Motion (physics), motion or Visual appearance, form or both are specified. ''Choreography'' may also refer to the design itself. A chor ...

,"Leaping into Dance Technology"
Jeffrey Bary, ''Connect: Information Technology at NYU'', Fall 2002

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, 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 and later the Benesh notation. These attempts naturally evolved into attempts to translate the symbolic notations into computer models of the moving

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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'', Atlanta Ballet and

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, 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 environment 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

Merce Cunningham Mercier Philip "Merce" Cunningham (April 16, 1919 – July 26, 2009) was an American dancer and choreographer who was at the forefront of American modern dance for more than 50 years. He frequently collaborated with artists of other discipl ...

* Suguru Goto * Bebe Miller * Troika Ranch * Chunky Move * Boris Willis * Johannes Birringer * Kate Sicchio

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:" Computer Nerds Meet Tutus: A Pas de Deux for Dancers and Technology"
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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

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