2021

AROUND THE DEFINITION OF GESTURE IN DIGITAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE DANCING BODY

Chapter of a book that discusses the expression of choreographic ideas through digital media, focusing on the software “Gesture Follower”, created to recognize gestures in the framework of a choreographic transmission practice, the workshop “Double Skin/Double Mind” by the artists Emio Greco and Pieter Scholten. The article discusses how these expressions are particular solutions to generic problems of choreographic transmission, in this case as a result of digitally automated algorithmic procedures. The discussion of this software allows us to distinguish between a dancing body and a gestural body and, from the perspective of digital algorithms, to problematize the relationship between dance and writing with regard to the constitution and transmission of choreographic knowledge.

Part of the publication “Performing Arts and Digital Culture”, with editorial coordination by João Estevens, a Mountain and Rabbit Hole edition.

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