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Item Metadata only Item Metadata only ‘‘Being’ and experiencing in between the ‘here’ and ‘there’ of digital dancing’.(2013-04-10) Francksen, KerryItem Metadata only Bodies and Technologies: The implications of technology in dance(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016) Francksen, KerryThis chapter explores technology’s role as a key creative agent within digital dance performance making. Using the author’s own embodied experiences of moving in media-rich environments, the tensions that can exist in the companionship of dance and technology are offered as a point of departure for exploring positive change in the ways in which we produce, engage with, and understand the act of moving. As part of a heritage, where the body is both the focus of exploration and the realisation of an artwork, the potential for engendering further connections through embodied experience via new technologies is explored. To do this the author draws upon a recent “live-digital” (Francksen 2015) performance piece titled Modulation_one (Francksen and Atkinson 2014). Using this as a case study, the author offers insights into the creative process and discusses the impact technology has had on the production of movement. Furthermore, by fore-fronting the experiences and somatic sensibilities of the dancer as key, this chapter explores how an appreciation of digital practices can help to tap into a more kinaesthetic and embodied experience of dancing within technological environments.Item Metadata only Creative Process and Pedagogy with Interactive Dance, Music and Image(Congress on Research in Dance, 2009) Francksen, Kerry; Battey, B.; Breslin, JoThis 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.Item Metadata only Dancing in live and digital domains: A practical study(2013-04-19) Francksen, KerryItem Metadata only Dancing with technology: Technology's impact on the body. A dancer's perspective(2015-02-13) Francksen, KerryItem Metadata only The Disembodied body. The Live, the virtual and the in-between(Brunel University, 2007) Francksen, KerryItem Metadata only Embodied Interiorities: Symbiosis and intimacy in 'live-digital' dance and augmented sound performance(2014-04) Francksen, Kerry; Atkinson, SimonItem Metadata only Emergent learning strategies: Inspiring the learners' sense of agency and autonomy through practice(2014-07) Francksen, Kerry; Doughty, SallyItem Open Access Emerging: Live-digital gestures in action(MIT Press, 2015-01-13) Francksen, KerryThis paper discusses some findings from practice-based-research into digital dance performance making and offers a perspective of Erin Manning’s ‘sensing bodies’ as a methodology for rethinking the relationship between live and digital dancing bodies. The thrust of the paper explores the potential for experiencing a more intimate exchange between real-time image processing technologies and movement. Using Manning’s concepts as a framework the author discusses how a dancer’s understanding of moving in such environments can move towards an attentive awareness, which allows for a more intimate exchange with emerging live and digital gestures. Findings from the author’s research reveals the significance of those perceptual shifts in attention; where media-rich environments open up rather than close down the ‘potentiality’ for live and digital gestures to transform as they continually emerge in the moment of performance.Item Metadata only ‘Exchanges between the lived, performed and mediatised in live-digital dance performance’.(2013-04-19) Francksen, KerryItem Metadata only Fluid exchanges: Digital energies(2014-09) Francksen, KerryItem Metadata only Item Metadata only Item Metadata only Performer presence: ‘Sensing Bodies’ in digital dance performance(2012) Francksen, KerryItem Metadata only ‘Shift’ digital dance performance(2012-01-20) Francksen, KerryItem Metadata only State three(2005-10-15) Francksen, KerryItem Open Access Taking care of bodies ~ Tracing gestures betwixt and between live-digital dancing(Brunel University, 2014-02) Francksen, KerryAbstract This paper discusses some findings from practice-as-research into digital dance performance making. In an attempt to re-conceptualize the art of making movement, particularly as new technologies become more and more pervasive in art practice generally, this paper presents a personal perspective of the potential for ‘live’ and ‘digital bodies’ to interact. Key to this interaction has been a philosophical appreciation of Erin Manning’s concepts of a ‘sensing body in movement’ and ‘relation’ (2007,2011). Using Manning’s ideas as a methodology for rethinking the relationship between live and digital dancing, this paper explores how the integration of digital media into choreographic practices can begin to shift our understanding of how best to compose movement simultaneously in live and digital contexts. Furthermore, this paper aims to explore and further understand what it means to move within media-rich environments; moving towards a situation where the idea of ‘taking care of bodies’ extends to how such performance paradigms can begin to re-engage with performer/audience perception.Item Open Access Technological enhancements in the teaching and learning of reflective and creative practice in dance(Taylor and Francis, 2008) Doughty, Sally; Francksen, Kerry; Huxley, Michael; Leach, MartinA team of researchers at De Montfort University’s Centre for Excellence in Performance Arts has explored uses of technology in dance education. The wider context of dance and technology pedagogy includes research into dance, technologies, learning and teaching and the relationships between teaching and research. The paper addresses all of these themes. Three pedagogic research projects are reported on. They address dance and technology in terms of: (i) teaching the Alexander Technique for dancers, (ii) improvisation, (iii) interactive practice using the software environment Isadora. Two main themes are highlighted: (1) use of technology as a means of enabling reflection, and (2) technology as a means of both engaging in the creative process and as a creative tool. It is argued that student-centred autonomous learning in dance can be significantly enhanced by an informed application of technologies.Item Metadata only Trust Thyself: learning and letting go(2014-05) Francksen, Kerry; Allman, Zoe; Moralee, Simon