Creative Process and Pedagogy with Interactive Dance, Music and Image

Date
2009
Authors
Francksen, Kerry
Battey, B.
Breslin, Jo
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Publisher
Congress on Research in Dance
Peer reviewed
Abstract
This lecture-demonstration reflects on a research-informed teaching project in which teaching staff in dance and music technology collaborated on technical and pedagogic research and artistic creation in interactive dance. Our primary aim was to throw light on how interactive technologies might challenge and develop the ways in which students in dance and music technology engage in creative practice through the exploration of a set of technologies and conceptual approaches the research has revealed very particular compositional structures and methods. Experimental sketches were developed with a particular focus on emergent behavior and richly behaviored audio-visual feedback systems that were both controlled by and influenced the dancers. The demonstration presents our approaches and offers methodologies and strategies for the use of new technologies in dance pedagogy.
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Keywords
dance, multimedia, pedagogy, interactivity
Citation
Francksen, K., Battey, B. and Breslin, J. (2009) Creative Process and Pedagogy with Interactive Dance, Music and Image. In: Proceedings of the Congress on Research in Dance, 2009, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.
Research Institute
Music, Technology and Innovation - Institute for Sonic Creativity (MTI2)