TO INVITE (sub)culturally diverse practices into dance scholarship
TO ENABLE agency to co-author the body-mind- ecology
TO BRIDGE divergent dance perspectives
VICKi’s Interactive Technique 2.0 is a highly experimental subject-centered approach to creating and discovering interactive performance techniques.
1. INTERACTIVE TECHNIQUE: real-time interaction with mediated environments.
2. SUSTAINABILITY: dancers (formal and informal) can afford class (see future)
3. DIVERSITY: 2.0-style bottom-up access to and authorship of class content
The dance field and what it can give the community will be stronger if it trickles up, enabling diverse appeal and thus economic sustainability.
Traditional dance classes prepare you for the platform of auditioning, learning material set “on” you, and performing it. “technique 2.0” follows the web-2.0 paradigm – bottom-up creation paradigm – which is designed specifically for the interactive performance context. Read on… Traditional techniques give you patterns, assuming you’ll be in a context where you can use […]
“More than a paradigm, what we need is a mind capable of following the movement of life,” (Nava, 17). My work on The VICKI Project attempts to foster this kind of dance mind by enabling students to co-create course material. The assessment I envision is about individual student growth within a community.
“Play does not inspire the game; the game animates play.” Wark [091] ~ VICKi’s It2 grants students the opportunity to shape their own games, to take agency in animating their creative artistic play ~ What is distinctive about games is that they produce for the gamer an intuitive relation to the algorithm. (Wark, 030) * […]
Fritjof Capra: The Web of Life – A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems (p.303-304) The flexibility of an ecosystem is a consequence of its multiple feedback loops, which tend to bring the system back into balance whenever ther is a deviation from the norm, due to changing environmental conditions. * VICKi will involve the […]
– Interfaced Performance Phenomenology is a playful undertaking of sociology and anthropology type stuff. WHAT ITS LIKE – Susan Kozel on her work with phenomenology – The purpose of this investigation is to come to achieve a critical practical awareness of the ins and outs of power dynamics, and our dynamic position with them. = […]
