Eye-Height

Beatriz Cantinho

Research Title: “Crystal image – beyond metaphor: analysis of movement perception in interdisciplinary artistic work”.My research focus on the possible relationship between, what as been identified as the crystal image or time image in cinema by Deleuze (Cinema 2, French 1985), and the possible application of its conceptual aspects to interdisciplinary composition, within the areas of dance, sound and fine arts. This research being a practice based one, has both a theoretic as well as a practical approach; several experiments within performance have been taking part over the past three years culminating now in the performance “Eye-Eight”. The performance has been developed in collaboration with other artists and presented both in academic and professional artistic contexts.

Keywords: interdisciplinary artistic collaboration (dance, music, fine art)

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Re-membering(s): Being There and Then, and Here and Now

Sue Hawksley

Abstract

This paper considers questions of embodied perception, memory and cognition from a choreographic perspective, through an account of the making and performing of remembering(s), a performance work comprising a series of improvised miniatures in contemporary music and dance.

re-membering(s) investigates the interfaces between performers, between dance and music, and between performers and audience in live improvised performance. What is transmitted? What is lost? What are effective choreographic means to apprehend, frame and articulate the fugitive impressions and traces of what happens in the danced-moment? re-membering(s) emphasises the activities of looking, listening, remembering and reporting, engaging aleotoric compositional methods to present performance strategies and situations pertinent to an inquiry into embodiment.

This paper discusses aspects of the creative process and context of this piece, focusing primarily on the choreographer’s and dancers’ perspectives, and on the role of the interdisciplinary collaboration in the evolution of the work.

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