Dance-tech Project

This page is still in progress. It will be updated with news of the relaunch, and of the archiving of sections of the project.

In 2007 I started dance-tech.net, the first social network for practitioners of dance and movement who were working with digital technologies. The approach was broad. From that network I also made movimiento.org, in Spanish and Portuguese, with the Red Suramericana de Danza, idanca.net, and Associação Cultural Panorama. dance-tech.net is in the process of being archived. The project is an important part of the history of dance and technology. I wrote that story in The Dance-tech Project: How like a Network, an essay in Transmission in Motion: The Technologizing of Dance, edited by Maaike Bleeker.

A central part of my work was making the dance-tech interviews, more than 200 of them, which I published from the network. A selection is in the playlist below.

Important hubs of the network were the collaboration with Festival Panorama in Rio de Janeiro, the Gilles Jobin Company in Switzerland, and the Forsythe Company at Hellerau in Dresden. At the same time, HZT Berlin supported the work. There I taught network environments for performance and dance pedagogy.

I made Panorama Aumentado for Festival Panorama de Dança in Rio de Janeiro in 2012, with my concept and direction. It was the first augmented-reality app deployed in a dance festival.

Meta Academy asked what network environments, and the internet, can do for the transmission of embodied knowledge. The 2013 pilot, Minded Motion Lab, was held with Bates Dance Festival. Nancy Stark Smith was the guest, and the lab worked from her Underscore, a practice of improvisation. I facilitated it with Rachel Boggia and Josephine Dorado.