BADco. is inviting you to the international four-day event Algorithmic Reflections of Choreography: From Choreography to Software and Back presenting cutting-edge approaches to using software tools in choreographic work. The symposium, workshops and installations will bring together artists, technologists, educators and scholars to present and reflect on how such technological tools can help in developing, documenting, teaching choreography and what are the effects of their use on creative work. The event will include contributions by developers and artists working on tools developed by and for The Forsythe Company, Emio Greco | PC, Deborah Hay Company, BADco., Ventura Dance Company and other international dance companies.

The symposium marks the release of BADco.’s choreographic software suite Whatever Dance Toolbox, created in collaboration with the German developer Daniel Turing. It will be followed by four days of workshops and installations of The Forsythe Company and ACCAD’s Synchronous Objects, facilitated by Norah Zuniga Shaw, and BADco.’s Whatever Dance Toolbox, facilitated by BADco choreographers.

Schedule:

April 1
11:00 – 19:00 Symposium
with participation of: Stamatia Portanova (Birkbeck University), Norah Zuniga-Shaw ([Synchronous Objects], Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, Ohio State University), Bertha Bermúdez Pascual ([Double Skin/Double Mind & Capturing Intention], ICKamsterdam – Emio Greco | PC), Amin Weber ([Motion Bank], The Forsythe Company), Daniel Turing & Nikolina Pristaš ([Whatever Dance Toolbox], BADco.), Kristin Carlson ([Scuddle], SIAT, Simon Fraser University), Pablo Ventura ([Choreographic Machine], Ventura Dance Company), Marlon Barrios Solano ([dance-tech.net]), Riikka Theresa Innanen

19:00 – 20:00 Public presentation of installations:
Synchronous Objects by William Forsythe, Norah Zuniga Shaw, and Maria Palazzi
Whatever Dance Toolbox by BADco.

20:00 Performance:
BADco.: Semi-Interpretations – Or How To Explain Contemporary Dance to an Undead Hare

April 2
11:00 – 17:00 Workshop I:
Synchronous Objects, facilitated by Norah Zuniga Shaw

17:00 – 19:00 Installations:
Synchronous Objects & Whatever Dance Toolbox

April 3
11:00 – 17:00 Workshop II:
Whatever Dance Toolbox, facilitated by choreographers of BADco.

17:00 – 19:00 Installations:
Synchronous Objects & Whatever Dance Toolbox

April 4
11:00 – 17:00 Workshop II:
Whatever Dance Toolbox, facilitated by choreographers of BADco.

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BADco. is a Zagreb-based theatre collective. The collective, a confluence of interests in choreography, dramaturgy and philosophy, is nowadays made up of Pravdan Devlahović, Ivana Ivković, Ana Kreitmeyer, Tomislav Medak, Goran Sergej Pristaš, Nikolina Pristaš, Lovro Rumiha and Zrinka Užbinec. Since it was founded in 2000, it has been systematically focusing on the theatrical and dance performance as a problem field - questioning the established ways of performing, representing and spectating.
http://www.badco.hr

Algorithmic Reflections of Choreography: From Choreography to Software and Back is part of LABO21 - European Platform for Interdisciplinary Research on Artistic Methodologies, a partner project of BADco. (Zagreb), BUDA Arts Center (Kortrijk), Laboratorium (Antwerp) and University of Circus and Dance (Stockholm). With the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union.