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Aims

The project aims at creating a new way of using historical material in dance studies and practise. It will systematize the discourses on re-construction and provide the missing, but more than necessary foundation for further physical research of performative practises.

Technical Approach

Although the graphic animation industry has developed software with amazing capabilities during the last decades, there are only limited approaches available, which fail to efficiently support the requirements for analyzing and animating dance.

Currently, two basic approaches to 3D character animation exist:

Case Studies

In the framework of this project a library of dance phrases for different styles will be built, which will function as a reference database for re-composing material of related styles. Previous re-constructions on related material will be used as a body of reference, to make reasonable choices on how to fill the gaps in the documentation. Demonstrating the efficiency of this approach will be accomplished by examining a limited set of recorded materials.

Systems of Movement Notation

In contrast to keyframe animation, dance notation systems may be regarded as a more suitable and complete conceptual framework to describe movement. They form a basis for accurate description of movement, and serve at the same time as an instrument of thought.

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