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Curated by Laura Kriefman, Guerilla Dance Project We want dance to be a part of more people’s lives now and into the future and the world of technology provides opportunities that we may not even have thought of yet.

Over the past few years we have worked in collaboration with other organisations to explore different ways of working with technology. We created the app DanceTag as a distribution tool for young people’s work, Step Into A Book explored the use of Augmented Reality and digital games to enhance reading for 4-7 year olds and Discovery Innovation Artist, Kendra Horsburgh, has been exploring where dance meets tech with digital agency Redweb.

It was a natural evolution to hold an event to showcase and explore possibilities and we could think of no-one better to curate it than Laura Kriefman, who has been at the forefront of this movement. We hope you will be fascinated, challenged and inspired.

Zannah Doan Chief Executive, PDSW pdsw.org.uk

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Laura Kriefman is an Architectural Choreographer.

She is a 2016 INK Fellow, 2015 WIRED Magazine/ The Space Creative Fellow and a 2011-2012 Fellow of the Clore Cultural Leadership Programme.

Her company Guerilla Dance Project (guerilladanceproject.com) have won multiple awards for digital innovation and specialise in Augmented Dance: the fusion between movement and technology. Resident at the Pervasive Media Studio, Bristol, they create interactive installations and spectacles that have been commissioned worldwide including USA, Brazil, Ireland, Croatia, Europe, India, and Indonesia.

Recent work includes Mass Crane Dance: a spectacular meeting of music, light, and synchronised construction cranes dancing across the skylight at night. Our inaugural event Crane Dance Bristol was seen by 10,000 people and reached four million people online. guerilladanceproject.com

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Schedule SATURDAY 22nd April Time

Event

Location

From 9.30am

Registration / Tea & Coffee

Foyer

10.00am

Introduction by Laura Kriefman

Ocean Room

New Visuals and interaction: Phill Tew from Interactive Scientific 10.30am

‘Making it Easy’; facilitating projects combining movement and technology: David Haylock from Pervasive Media Studio

Ocean Room

New Movement tools for live performance: Chagall, Musician 11.30am

Break

Foyer

Self-composing sound and the human body: Joseph Hyde, Composer 11.45am

New Bodies: Karina Jones from Extraordinary Bodies Virtual Dancer: Ghislaine Boddington from body>data>space

Ocean Room

New Built Environments: Anthony Rowe from Squidsoup 1.15pm

Lunch & demos: Laura Kriefman Kicking The Mic, AΦE WHIST installation, David Haylock RAM kit and Kendra Horsburgh NOX.

Foyer, Garden Studio & Seafront Studio

New Dance Vocabularies digital tools in the rehearsal room with Studio Wayne McGregor:: Jasmine Wilson from Studio Wayne McGregor 2.30pm

New Ways of Capturing Dance: Malgorzata Dzierzon from New Movement Collective

Ocean Room

New Ways of Working: Kendra Horsburg from BirdGang Dance and David Burton from Redweb 3.30pm

Break

Foyer

4.00pm

Rapid Ideas Generation

Ocean Room & Seafront Studio

5.00pm

Event end

Ocean Room

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Session 1: New Tech What are interactive visuals? What is live sound performance? Why are people building these systems in the first place? This opening session demystifies some of the tech, and allows Creative Technologists and performers working in this way to tell you why they create work with movement at its heart.

New Visuals and Interaction

Making it Easy David Haylock, Creative Technologist, Pervasive Media Studio

Phill Tew, Chief Technical Officer, Interactive Scientific

David Haylock is the Creative Technologist in residence at the Pervasive Media Studio.

Phill is a blend of programmer and installation Over the years he has worked on a vast artist, creating artworks that play with number of projects, facilitating artists’ generative processing, physical modelling relationship with tech. and creativity itself.

Phill’s previous projects include work such as danceroom Spectroscopy - an award-winning combination of art installation and an immersive audio visual science experience. dS allows people see and hear how the motion of their fields interacts with a real-time quantum molecular dynamics simulation.

The project was successfully toured internationally, and won critical acclaim. Currently, Phill is the cofounder and Technical Director of Interactive Scientific, the company behind the Nano Simbox platform which uses rigorous science, interactive visuals and engaging experiences to make the invisible world visible for science learners and researchers.

The Pervasive Media Studio is a community of artists, companies, technologists and academics exploring experience design and creative technology, based at the Watershed, Bristol.

Watershed is a social enterprise and a registered charity.

As the leading film culture and digital media centre in the South West, they advance education, skills, appreciation and understanding of the arts with a particular focus on film, media and digital technologies. watershed.co.uk/studio

interactivescientific.com

Image credit: Paul Blakemore

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Image credit: Shamphat Photography

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New Movement tools for live performance Chagall Chagall is a London-based, Dutch electronic music producer, songwriter and vocalist who has been using the gestural mi.mu gloves interface since early 2015.

Her performances are a physical manifestation of her electronic music productions, using the movement of her body to directly render the music live to audiences.

During an intensive R&D project at Somerset House and Westminster University she has worked with a team of artists to further explore the interaction between music, technology, choreography, visuals and lights and develop an immersive live performance to be toured through the UK and Europe in 2017/2018. chagallmusic.com soundcloud.com/chagallmusic

Image credit: Eduardo Fitch

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Session 2: New Movement What if you’ve never seen dance? What if there are no dancers? What if there is no venue: Is it still dance? This session questions where movement begins and ends.

Sound and the human body

New Bodies Karina Jones, Aerialist, Extraordinary Bodies

Joseph Hyde Joseph Hyde is a composer specialising in electronic music and work which incorporates visual media. His work has won a number of awards including Prix Ars Electronica, Concours de Bourges and Prix Luigi Russolo.

A significant proportion of his work is in contemporary dance, where he has worked with leading companies such as Rambert Dance, Netherlands Dance Theatre and Dance Media Japan. His primary research interest is in ‘Visual Music’ – since 2009 has run the Seeing Sound symposium, which has become a world-leading event in this field. He is a member of body>data>space with Ghislaine Boddington and others, which has had a pioneering role in body/technology art and research. josephhyde.co.uk

Karina Jones is an actor and aerial artist. At age 13 Karina became disabled through a degenerative sight condition, but she didn’t let that discourage her.

In 2012, she answered a call out for disabled artists to perform at the Paralympic Opening Ceremonies. She took part in an intensive training course for circus and aerial work, at Circus Centre London. From here Karina continued her training at the Green Top Circus in Sheffield, and joined the Extraordinary Bodies team for their premiere of Weighting in 2013.

Karina has since worked with Extraordinary Bodies on UK and International projects, including a recent residency in Australia with Circus Oz. She is currently working with Extraordinary Bodies on residencies across the UK, questioning ‘What am I worth?’.

Collective Reality with body>data>space at NESTA FutureFest 2016

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Extraordinary Bodies is a professional integrated circus company based in the UK, made up of leading disabled and non-disabled dancers, actors and circus performers. extraordinarybodies.org.uk

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Virtual Dancer Ghislaine Boddington, Creative Director, body>data>space Ghislaine is Creative Director of body>data>space and Women Shift Digital, artist-curator, researcher and director, a specialist in body responsive technologies and immersion experiences.

She is recognised as a pioneer, having strongly advocated the use of the entire body as a digital interaction canvas for over 25 years. She creates unique convergences of the virtual/physical body for public participation through telepresence, motion capture, robotics, wearables, sense/gesture tech and virtual worlds, exploring in depth the shifting of identities inherent in digital connectivities.

Recent works include the direction of me and my shadow (National Theatre 2012) and Collective Reality - Experience Togetherness (Nesta’s FutureFest 2016). Recent curations include Future Love (Nesta’s FutureFest 2016) and The Games Europe Plays (EUNIC London 2016).

New Built Environments Anthony Rowe, Founder, Squidsoup Anthony Rowe has 20 years experience in digital media and interaction design as an artist, designer, teacher and researcher.

He is currently a full-time artist, leading digital arts group Squidsoup in their explorations of experience and immersion, mixing physical space with digitally augmented responsive overlays to create responsive mixed-reality works.

Rowe founded Squidsoup in 1997. They have exhibited across the globe at a broad range of events and locations, with over a million visitors to their work in the last year alone; including Canary Wharf, Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew , Sydney Opera House (Australia), SIGGRAPH (USA), and Usina del Arte (Buenos Aires). squidsoup.org

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Collective Reality - Experience Togetherness.

Commissioned by FutureFest 2016 / University of Greenwich. Photo by Tadej Vindis

Image credit: Paul Blakemore

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Session 3: New Future How will these new tools influence us? What is the legacy? Can dance be more than a film?

What could we create as a result? This session focuses on three examples of some of the best contemporary choreographic work already fusing movement and technology together.

New Dance Vocabularies:

digital tools in the rehearsal room with Studio Wayne McGregor Jasmine Wilson, Director of Learning and Engagement, Studio Wayne McGregor Jasmine Wilson trained at London Contemporary Dance School. Since graduating Jasmine has worked in contemporary dance as a performer, teacher and manager.

She set up the Learning department of Studio Wayne McGregor in 1999 and has responsibility for developing and overseeing all learning and engagement activity.

She has managed and taught on projects with a wide variety of participants, in a diverse range of locations such as Canary Wharf tube station, Goresbrook Housing Estate and Trafalgar Square. Jasmine was a Clore Fellow 2009/10 and co-wrote Studio Wayne McGregor’s choreographic resource Mind and Movement.

Studio Wayne McGregor is the creative engine for choreographer and director Wayne McGregor CBE, and the home of his life-long enquiry into thinking through and with the body. With Wayne at its centre, this collaborative network encompasses dancers, writers, composers, producers, software engineers, visual artists, scientists and more. waynemcgregor.com

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Image credit: Ravi Deepres Wayne McGregor with Company dancer Daniela Neugebauer

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New Ways of Capturing Dance Malgorzata Dzierzon, Producer and Choreographer, New Movement Collective The presentation will give a brief introduction to New Movement Collective’s work and practice. It will then focus on our latest production Collapse, A Period Drama, a collaboration with architecture and design studio ScanLAB Projects.

New Movement Collective is a group of dance artists collectively redefining the boundaries of choreography and performance through ambitious, cross-disciplinary work.

NMC consists of 11 artists working without a lead creative director; together they have rapidly established a reputation for innovation, producing work that challenges theatrical orthodoxies and creatively responds to unconventional performance settings.

Since its inception in 2009 NMC has created four fulllength productions: Casting Traces (2012), NEST (2013), Please Be Seated (2014) and Collapse, A Period Drama (2016), as well as numerous installations, films and events.

Working in site-specific context in partnerships with new and established arts organisations, NMC’s production and research commissioners include Southbank Centre, Barbican, South East Dance and Stone Nest.

NMC was nominated for the Best Independent Company in the British Dance Critics Circle 2013 and 2014 Awards and the Company was recently awarded the Jerwood Choreographic Research Project to develop a new collaboration in the fields of dance and robotics.

Malgorzata is a member of New Movement Collective, where she produced, co-choreographed and performed in Casting Traces, NEST and Please Be Seated. newmovement.org.uk scanlabprojects.co.uk

Image credit: Collapse, A Period Drama, photo by Soma Sato, ScanLAB Projects

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New Ways of Working Kendra Horsburgh and Redweb David Burton of Redweb trained as a fine artist then got lured into pixels and screens at the turn of the century.

He’s a digital designer and producer during the day, a painter, printmaker and mess maker at night. He’s happiest with a pen in his hand and starting something new. David is Head of Innovation at digital agency Redweb, where his Labs team is tasked with exploring ideas, experimenting with new technologies, and deciphering the latest trends in order to provide glimpses of the future. redweb.com Kendra Horsburgh is Artistic Director of BirdGang Dance, a Young Vic Associate Dance Company.

Kendra is not only recognised for the productions she has toured with, but also for her thought-provoking stories and striking pictures she paints through dance, theatre and film.

Kendra’s credits include Blaze The Dance Sensation (World Tour), Into The Hoods, Jungle, Incognito, Street Dance 3D2, Dynamo The Power Of X, Bring The Noize (TV Show) and The Pain Killer by Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company.

Her original work includes The Aviary (commissioned by the British Council) and NOX 360 VR are both the fruit of her creative inspiration and a promise of what is yet to come. birdgangdance.com Image credit: Luke Lentes

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WHIST AΦE

AΦE is an Ashford-based dance company founded in 2013 by Aoi Nakamura and Esteban Fourmi. With the vision to bring the art of dance closer to audiences, their mission is to create high-quality productions and experiences that are not bound by a stage.

Driven by the power of body and movement in space, their productions are environments that allow the audience to enjoy total immersion. Each element in the performance space – the set, performers, audience, sound, objects – is part of an ecosystem, carefully constructed to allow audience’s own reflection on the subject explored.

They have choreographed, directed and performed for award-winning works, such as Sean Rogg’s immersive experience The Waldorf Project, stage productions; Wound, Für Eli, 360 films; The Night Opera, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, video for Google Arts & Culture and short films; Kai, Bysju promo, Chasing Mirror

by Padre ft Jova music video. They were seen live in venues such as Sadler’s Wells (UK), CutOut Festival (Mexico), Spill Festival of Performance (UK), and being featured on i-D magazine, The Creators Project and Vimeo Staff Pick.

WHIST, a physical theatre and Virtual Reality production, is the company’s first major commission and premiered in April 2017 at The Gulbenkian, Canterbury. aoiesteban.com

Image credit: WHIST by AΦE / Ymeri Hart

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As a registered charity and non-profit organisation, we strive to help everyone to lead a healthier and more fulfilled life through dance.

Pavilion Dance South West is a dance development organisation with a local venue, strategic regional remit, national significance and international reach.

We work across the whole South West region with a network of partner organisations and artists to develop dance as an art form, support artists and engage with audiences.

At Pavilion Dance, our venue in Bournemouth, we present live performance with the potential to entertain, excite, move and challenge. It is work we believe in, by artists with exciting, creative and fresh approaches to dance and movement.

We also hold visual arts exhibitions and run 40 weekly dance and movement classes.

We operate with Arts Council England, Bournemouth Borough Council and BH Live and are proud to be an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation (NPO).

Registered Charity no: 1111641

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