🔵 🔴 🟡 Course description

This course focuses on the application of digital technology in dance creation, research, and education. In this course, through examples from contemporary research and artistic creation, e.g. works by choreographers M. Cunningham, W. McGregor, W. Forsythe, digital technologies such as motion capture systems, extended reality equipment, web applications, machine learning techniques are presented, and the ways in which these technologies can be creatively combined with dance as a field of embodied knowledge and research are analyzed, as art, and as a form of intangible cultural heritage. The research and creation of dance as a field of study of human movement, promotes the design and development of digital applications and artistic works with a focus on people and embodied experience. The course emphasizes the understanding of the examples and the development of skills in the design of corresponding applications.

At the end of the course, the students will be able to:

• recognize and report the goals, the ways and the modern equipment for recording the dance movement

• get to know and cite historical and contemporary examples of collaboration between research, informatics and the performing art of dance.

• understand the different contexts in which people in the research and application of informatics collaborate with the art of dance (research, (inter)artistic creation, education, anthropology of dance, promotion of cultural heritage)

• design and propose technology application ideas for the art of dance

🔵 🔴 🟡 Theory (2 hours)

1. Introduction to the subject and structure of the course (dance/dance movement, movement recording, technology and performing arts)

2. Motion Recording -Historical Review (from Notation Systems to Modern Technologies) -Archiving and Documentation

3. Technologies for the study of dance – dance as an intangible cultural heritage and an object of anthropological study.

4. Multimedia and dance – Apostille systems and web applications -

5. Motion capture technologies (Motion Capture, depth cameras, virtual reality equipment)

6. Artistic creation I contemporary dance and technologies for choreography

7. Artistic Creation II - Augmented Performances and Digital Technologies in the Dance Scene

8. Dance in the digital world (virtual, augmented and immersive environments, gaming)

9. Pedagogical and educational applications for dance using modern technologies

10. Design and application of technologies in dance as a field of research of embodied perception and knowledge.

11. Assessment, challenges and possibilities, current and future trends

12. Case Study/Task Analysis

13. Presentation and analysis of tasks

🔵 🔴 🟡 Workshop (1 hour)

1. Introduction to the subject and structure of the course (dance/dance movement, movement recording, technology and performing arts)

2. Motion Recording -Historical Review (from Notation Systems to Modern Technologies) -Archiving and Documentation

3. Technologies for the study of dance – dance as an intangible cultural heritage and an object of anthropological study.

4. Multimedia and dance – Apostille systems and web applications -

5. Motion capture technologies (Motion Capture, depth cameras, virtual reality equipment)

6. Artistic creation I contemporary dance and technologies for choreography

7. Artistic Creation II - Augmented Performances and Digital Technologies in the Dance Scene

8. Dance in the digital world (virtual, augmented and immersive environments, gaming)

9. Pedagogical and educational applications for dance using modern technologies

10. Design and application of technologies in dance as a field of research of embodied perception and knowledge.

11. Assessment, challenges and possibilities, current and future trends

12. Case Study/Task Analysis

13. Presentation and analysis of tasks

Review language: Greek

🔵 🔴 🟡 Evaluation method:

• Exercises (50-70%)
• Oral examination - Presentation of work (30-50%)

• Face-to-face
• Interactive lectures
• Use of slides, laboratory and practical exercises using relevant software see. Bibliography as well as demonstration and video analysis with examples of works and character animation techniques.
• Use of e-class.

https://eclass.uop.gr/courses/2861/

🔵 🔴 🟡 Course Textbooks [Eudoxus]

• Maria Koutsoumba (2005) Notation of Dance Movement, Propompos Publications
• Anya Peterson Royce (2005) The Anthropology of Dance. Kapolas Pagonas Publications
• Vasilakos, A. (2008). Digital Art Forms. Tziolas Publications. [18549065]

Extra Bibliography

• Dixon, S. (2015). Digital performance: a history of new media in theater, dance, performance art, and installation. MIT press.
• Wilke, L., Calvert, T., Ryman, R., & Fox, I. (2005). From dance notation to human animation: The Laban Dancer project. Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds, 16(3‐4), 201-211.
• Calvert, T. (2016). Approaches to the representation of human movement: notation, animation and motion capture. In Dance Notations and Robot Motion (pp. 49-68). Springer, Cham.
• Cisneros, R. E., Wood, K., Whatley, S., Buccoli, M., Zanoni, M., & Sarti, A. (2019). Virtual reality and choreographic practice: The potential for new creative methods. Body, Space & Technology, 18(1).
• Raheb, K. E., Tsampounaris, G., Katifori, A., & Ioannidis, Y. (2018, May). Choreomorphy: A whole-body interaction experience for dance improvisation and visual experimentation. In Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (pp. 1-9).
• Tsampounaris, G., El Raheb, K., Katifori, V., & Ioannidis, Y. (2016, November). Exploring visualizations in real-time motion capture for dance education. In Proceedings of the 20th Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics (pp. 1-6).