Inside Movement Knowledge (IMK) AIMS to:
Develop and disseminate innovative forms of dance documentation and transmission that can contribute to the quality of artistic development in the professional field;
Provide new and enhanced resources for contemporary dance training, education and heritage professionals to use in teaching, study and preservation of contemporary dance practice;
Apply experience from the new media art field in documenting and preserving forms of ‘variable media’ to challenges of dance documentation;
Investigate “experience-based” knowledge alliance and leicester loan
production constituted by the embodied knowledge that is dance;
Strengthen international professional networks supporting research for the benefit of dance practice;
Advance interdisciplinary knowledge exchange and stimulate new research projects involving the fields of dance, education, cultural heritage and science;
Intensify the transmission of and public accessibility to the knowledge that is dance.
The AIMS are translated into the following practical OBJECTIVES:
1. Further product development by an interdisciplinary artistic research team of the Interactive Dance Workshop Installation, which will function as a prototype for an innovative system of documentation and transmission. This spatial installation will allow instant loands
individual users to physically experience the professional training method employed by EG | PC in Double Skin/Double Mind, and will provide multiple sources of feedback on the quality of their movements. The initial small-scale experimental version will be analysed, assessed, adapted and extended.
2. The making available of the installation as a case study for research groups from the fields of dance education and dance science, who will participate in the iterative design process. In this context, arts students and teachers will function as expert respondents from the field and the research group from the University of Utrecht will use the installation is the basis for deepening the theoretical understanding of matters relating to description and notation of dance in a broader cultural environment.
3. The experimental application of the professionalised Interactive Dance Workshop Installation in other contexts, such as scientific research, amateur art and public awareness. The prototype installation has already been presented to experts from the field of cognitive science, and they are performing research into the body awareness of anorexia patients. It also received a great deal of interest from the general (untrained) public at several festivals.
4. The development of a multimedia-based model for the documentation of choreographic processes, incorporating the knowledge of heritage specialists in the field of visual media art. Explorative examination of the categorisation and classification of a real-life example from the professional dance world will be followed up by constructive design.
5. A third case study is the development of a protoype coursebook designed specifically for the MA level course in a dance science course; but in close consultation with professional training aiming to be useable by both.
6. The organisation of four practical laboratories (Labs) in which research teams focused on theory and practice will be brought together on location for several days to enable hands-on work on the innovation projects and to continue development in concert. One day of each lab period will be reserved for exchange and integration with respect to the diverse processes concerned.
7. The organisation of two conferences focusing on interim reporting and reflection on the progress of the participating parties’ research programmes. These conferences will include internal discussion, intensive exchange in an international context (participation of members of the Associates Research Network) and communication with national professionals from the field.
8. The conformation with international best practices in the relevant professional areas through regular feedback from an extensive international associates network. The primary involvement of the participating choreographers and heritage experts (and their pioneering research practices) will be in the above-mentioned conferences.
9. The documentation of all six events to facilitate the dissemination and communication of the research project in the professional domain. Inside Movement Knowledge will maintain a project website, distribute finalised documentation and publish a post-project book.
10. The development of new, practice-oriented scientific methods for the theoretical embedding and critical evaluation of the results produced by Inside Movement Knowledge unsecured payday loans
research. This may be either a component of the project itself or the result of publications in professional journals and contributions to conferences.
11. The wide distribution of the results of the research, to ensure that Inside Movement Knowledge has a measurable effect on the development of the professional practice of choreographers, teachers, curators and dance scientists.
