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Overview

Visualizing Dance Archives is a research and development project aimed at creating a 3D animation software for dance and choreography.

The goal of this project is to develop a new unique software, which provides the possibility to access historic static sources and to translate their referentiality into visuality, thus revealing its motoric and kinetic aspects. The new computer application will aid research in reconstructing dance by creating animated movement sequences. It will allow to transfer movement content from a variety of sources into a visual, three-dimensional representation. The researcher will be given a great amount of flexibility, offering a wide range of possibilities and choices to connect visualized body postures to movement phrases.

 

Derra de Moroda Dance Archives

Friderica1SmallDance archives provide a wide-ranging memory of the dance, dance studies attempt to access this memory – especially at Salzburg University where the academic and creative interaction of dance studies and the Derra de Moroda Dance Archives is unique in the dance world. The particular Salzburg profile of a dance center aims to serve scholars and practitioners likewise, to bridge the traditional gaps of theory and practice, of history and presence, by providing verbal, visual and kinetic dance materials.

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Dance Research and Reconstruction

Dance research on eras prior to the invention of film and video bears an implicit limitation, concerning the availability of the actual movement material. Gaining insights into this core element of dance requires a meticulous analysis of given static sources. While the sheer amount of available material is able to shed a reasonable portion of light on dances of the past, gaps inevitably remain that need to be filled by other means.

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