Capturing Dance and Choroetopography: Analyzing and Visualizing Complexity
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- ISEA2011: 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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Session Title:
- Motion Capture and Dance: what it can do, what it can’t do, and what it should never attempt
Presentation Title:
- Capturing Dance and Choroetopography: Analyzing and Visualizing Complexity
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Panel: Motion Capture and Dance: what it can do, what it can’t do, and what it should never attempt
Motion capture provides ‘snapshots’ of the complexity of movement patterning. This presentation explores how this complexity can be mapped to specific variables for analysis, and what such analyses both reveal and mask in relation to the choreographic practices involved, drawing on my three-year collaboration with mathematician Vicky Mak-Hau and biomechanist Richard Smith at the Deakin Motion.Lab in Melbourne, Australia. The paper explores how can these analyses can potentially drive creative processes in dance, and, through a discussion of performance project Choreotopography, how real-time motion capture can visualize and enhance spatial pathways using 3D stereoscopic projection.