Dance at the Interface: Issues and Solutions for Performing in the Techno-space

At first glance the potential relationship between dance and technology is not obvious.
From the apparent simplicity of human movement in an expressive range on the one hand to the brutal logic of the technological processes on the other, the sympathy and connection is not immediately obvious. Technological development in the dance space is about assessing the challenges posed by the data produced by the dancer, both technical and creative. This presentation is about the role technology can play in understanding and extending human movement beyond the body, its function in supporting and training dancers and the opportunities for using the substance of human movement as the basis for creative and scientific exploration. It includes examples of work conducted by the Visualisation Research Unit at the School of Art, Birmingham City University, including the role of dance in our technology development processes, and how this has changed the way we have approached dance as a part of our experimental processes.