Mission

TO INVITE (sub)culture into dance scholarship
TO ENABLE agency: active co-authorship of the body-mind-ecology
TO BRIDGE divergent dance perspectives
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CONVERGE / EVOLVE diverse expressions of dance philosophy
CO-CREATE visual, sonic, and textual apparatuses
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Dance making, teaching, and doing shape experiences of dance.
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VICKI’s Interactive Technique 2.0 is a highly experimental subject-centered approach to discovering technique with mediated environments.

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Ideas [...]

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Implications

1. INTERACTIVE TECHNIQUE: real-time interaction with mediated environments.
2. SUSTAINABILITY: dancers (formal and informal) can afford to take class (see future)
3. DIVERSITY: 2.0-style bottom-up access to and authorship of class and its content
Dance practitioners and their contacts constitute the majority of the audience.  By making dance more affordable and appealing to do for diverse populations, I [...]

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