TY - JOUR
T1 - From Ephemeral to Digital
T2 - A Study of Alexandra Waierstall's Screened and Live Contemporary Dance Performance
AU - Milovanović, Dara
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Author(s).
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Alexandra Waierstall, A Cypriot-German choreographer, premiered her work 'A line, a gaze, a horizon' at the Cyprus Choreography Platform in November of 2020. The work, entirely created online, has been expanded and performed in 2022 commenting on the overwhelming shift to digitally creating and screening dance. Waierstall's inclusion of live-action screendance methodologies in a proscenium theatre performance radically alters thinking around live and mediated performances and the effect of technology on dance composition. Employing the lens of screendance theory and film phenomenology the aim of this essay is to explore how including screened dance into live performance choreographic methods effects the experience of watching dance. The essay includes spoken word that guides the structure of the work as well as images of the work to create a written and visual narrative that combines artistic expression and analysis to explore the possibilities of including technology in contemporary dance making.
AB - Alexandra Waierstall, A Cypriot-German choreographer, premiered her work 'A line, a gaze, a horizon' at the Cyprus Choreography Platform in November of 2020. The work, entirely created online, has been expanded and performed in 2022 commenting on the overwhelming shift to digitally creating and screening dance. Waierstall's inclusion of live-action screendance methodologies in a proscenium theatre performance radically alters thinking around live and mediated performances and the effect of technology on dance composition. Employing the lens of screendance theory and film phenomenology the aim of this essay is to explore how including screened dance into live performance choreographic methods effects the experience of watching dance. The essay includes spoken word that guides the structure of the work as well as images of the work to create a written and visual narrative that combines artistic expression and analysis to explore the possibilities of including technology in contemporary dance making.
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U2 - 10.16995/bst.9702
DO - 10.16995/bst.9702
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85149957948
SN - 1470-9120
VL - 22
SP - 128
EP - 145
JO - Body, Space and Technology
JF - Body, Space and Technology
ER -