AΦE hosted the UK’s first Choreographic Coding Lab (CCL) at their new A+E Lab in Chatham, UK, for movement hackers and practitioners to gather to discuss and work on projects, ideas and challenges in a peer-to-peer setting.


The CCL format is an outcome of the first phase (2010-2013) of Motion Bank, a research project of The Forsythe Company in Frankfurt focused on the creation of digital dance scores with guest choreographers. Motion Bank is now hosted at the Hochschule Mainz where it continues its dance research and analysis activities, collecting new datasets and developing tools. These datasets and tools will be made available to the CCL. The CCL was enriched by a selection of input sessions with experienced dance artists as well as members of the Motion Bank team.


CCL-14 Support/ Facilitation Team:
Aoi Nakamura
Daniel Bisig
Esteban Lecoq
Eni Brandner
Mark Coniglio
Nick Rothwell
Scott deLahunta

Input session leaders:
Chisato Ohno
Rebecca Bassett-Graham/ Studio Wayne McGregor

Participants:
Allison Costa
Chelsi Cocking
Chelly Jin
Clemence Debaig
Dhanush Giridhar
Georgica Pettus
Irini Kalaitzidi
Isabel Sun
John Lucy
Lenataa Goka
Max Dovey
Nirav Beni
Stathis Doganis
Rebecca Evans
Rhianna Brown
Simon East
Sofia Kovalenko
Tim Murray-Browne

Observer:
Tom Scarborough
Tove Grimstad Bang

Supported by Motion Bank @Hochschule Mainz University of Applied Sciences, Arts Council England, Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries (iCCi) - University of Kent, Visual Elements and the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University and Marie Curie Fellowship