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UnderScore, Choreographic Objects and more

UnderScore, Choreographic Objects and more

Choreographic research project

Choreographic research project

The program is supported by the Ministry of Culture of Greece for 2021-2022.

Artistic residency at Duncan Dance Research Center
EDN member – European Dance Development Network
Athens 2022

UnderScore is an ongoing practice based choreographic research project studying the concepts of score and choreographic object as tools for choreographic composition, as representations of embodied technologies, as devices for the production of new material. It also seeks to collect, experiment and systematize methodological approaches to the creative process.

Through the experimentation with choreographic structures, performing possibilities, imaginary scenarios and creative strategies the idea is to delve into dance as a dynamic condition of spatio-temporal events, unfold a series of phenomena taking place in the body-mind topography, question what is so-called choreographic thought and explore practices of artistic creation.

Concept-design-artistic direction: Eleonora Siarava
Production: Per_Dance Choreographic Research Platform

Within the framework of the project are planned a series of workshops, labs, ateliers.

– Residency at Duncan Dance Center / open presentation (Athens, 2022)
Participant dance artists: Natalia Baka, Sonia Ntova, Maria Pisiou

– Choreographic Atelier & Performance in the context of
form/RELAY/content – Artistic Material in Music and Dance
Center for Contemporary Dance – University of Music and Dance Cologne

Germany 2023

 

Partner institutions:
The Danish National School of Performing Arts, University of Music and Dance Cologne, The National University of Music Bucharest – The Electroacustic Music And Multimedia Center, The National Dance Center Bucharest, Sikinnis, The National University of Theatre and Film-Romania

RELAY is a three-year EU-funded research project supported by ERASMUS+

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Let’s Improv It

Let’s Improv It

Movement Research Project

Movement Research Project

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Let’s Improv It was held as part of ColLaboratoire-CogNovo multidisciplinary program of Plymouth University (August 2016). A week of movement exploration through collaborative practices and research on embodied cognition, improvisation, kinesthetic empathy and space awareness was followed by an open presentation; A non-verbal, collective facilitation of an experiential, somatic movement session.

By Klara Łucznik, Abigail Jackson, Eleonora Siarava, Aska Sakuta

From the website of ColLaboratoire:

In our research project, we focused on basic human abilities to understand ourselves and each other on the level of actions, intentions, and emotional states. We explored the role and perception of the emotional aspects of physical touch and the ability to touch each other through space. We explored how kinaesthetic empathy allows us to understand others through embodied knowledge of our own states. As a result, we invited all ColLaboratoire participants on the last day to take part in a 20-minute somatic movement experience. We shared our insights and reflection through embodied practice in darkness and silence, trusting the idea that much of the key knowledge in our lives is gained through experience. This way of sharing, which was novel for most in the group, was very well received, and gave participants a new way to relate to touch, their own bodies and the space between each other. Our research, as well as the influence of the summer school’s topics and the group’s social dynamics resonated through the movement of the group, creating a unique experience of sharing the space though individual and collective choices, finally resolving in togetherness in movement and rest.

Let’s Improv It was further presented in various formats at:

  1. “Dance Fields, Staking a Claim for Dance Studies in the 21st Century” Conference by Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), Coventry University, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Dance (CIRID), De Montfort University and University of Roehampton, 2017, London.
  2. “Moving the sensate: Questions of Affect and Embodiment for the 21st Century” Conference. Collaborative Participatory Performance: Let’s Improv It’ – Introducing Somatic Experience to a Wider Audience, Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University, 2017.
  3. “Off The Lip” Symposium
    Presentation and publication at the “Off the Lip: Collaborative Approaches to Cognitive Innovation” Avant 8 (Special Issue) 301-310, Plymouth University, 2017.
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Moving Digits

Moving Digits

Artistic Research Project

Artistic Research Project

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Moving Digits

A project for Digital Technology, Dance & Choreographic Practices


15 international dance artists,
4 projects,
7 institutions

A series of labs and performative events with a participatory design perspective were organized for the study and creative experimentation with movement devices, digital tools and motion tracking systems in augmented reality settings.

The first phase of Moving Digits took place at Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava Performing Arts Platform (Tallinn, Estonia, February 2019) followed by a residency/stage showing at Τanzhaus NRW, (Düsseldorf, October 2019) and the final phase of performative presentations at Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava (Tallinn, March 2020).

Moving Digits is a partnership between Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute (M-ITI, Portugal – Lead Partner), Hochschule Düsseldorf (HSD, Germany), Sõltumatu Tantsu Lava (STL, Estonia), Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT, Portugal), Plux (Portugal), Tanzhaus NRW (Germany), University of Greenwich (UK).

Co-funded by Creative EuropeCulture Sub-programme, 2018 – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) of the European Union.

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