Dance Notation Series

The Accademia Mobile, the exchange, research and dissemination pillar of ICKamsterdam presents a new initiative: the Dance Notation Series. This is both an online and a real life platform to exchange issues and projects on dance notation.

It is the result of a growing collaboration with the  Art Practice and Development Research Group of Marijke Hoogenboom at the Amsterdam School of the Arts and other international partners. It will continue to explore the objectives and results that  were generated during the Inside Movement Knowledge (IMK) project, the interdisciplinary research into new methods for the documentation, transmission and preservation of contemporary choreographic and dance knowledge. Just as the IMK project, the Dance Notation Series will operate within a variety of disciplines and approaches.

As a first pilot program of workshop and lecture-presentations, the Dance Notation Series will test and discuss the potential of the platform during
second edition of the ICK Event Party in the kitchen, which takes place from 14 till 16 January in Amsterdam.

 

14 & 15 January - Workshop

10:00-12:00 ‘Reading movement: an introduction to
the Benesh notation system’
by Cécile Médour
As a collaboration with Centre Benesh Paris, this workshop proposes a joyful entrance towards a system of writing and reading movement: the Benesh Notation. The main objectives of this workshop are to read movement from a choreographic score, understand the principles and suggestions of the Benesh notation system to communicate choreographic material. Acquiring simple and effective tools that can help understand, memorize, appropriate and analyse movement.

 

12:30-14h30 ‘Documenting performances’
by Gaby Wijers, Annet Dekker, Vivian van Saaze and Gabriella Giannachi
In the context of the interdisciplinary Inside Movement Knowledge project, the research team from the Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk)were invited to explore the possibilities of developing a generic documentation model for contemporary ance by drawing from their experiences in the preservation, documentation and knowledge transfer of media art. Their key objective was to develop a methodology that allows to gain insight into artistic reasoning in such a way that it provides future dancers, choreographers and researchers with an understanding of their work. As result a model of documentation has been developed. Organized in two parts, the first as a panel presentation and the second as hands-on format, this workshop will further explore the questions “what do we need to know in order to be able to recreate, re-perform, the performance piece or bring it into the future?”

 

14 January Seminar

15h30-17h30 ‘Notation within creative processes’
Speakers: Scott de Lahunta (US), Annet Dekker (NL), Cécile Médour (FR)
Moderator: Bertha Bermúdez (ES)

15h30-17h15 ‘Analyzing movement, an interdisciplinary approach’
speakers: Corinne Jola (CH), Carla Fernandes (PT),
Sarah Fdili Alaoui (MA)
moderator: Scott deLahunta (US)

 

17h15-17h30 Launch of Dance Notation Series
Closing the symposium and workshops in the Dance Notation Series, an online and real life platform of exchange on questions, issues and projects around dance notation will be presented by Bertha Bermúdez and Marijke Hoogenboom.