Dance is Hard to See Capturing and Transmitting Movement
through Media, Language and Muscle Memory
Organizer of and speaker/performer on shift for
Performance Studies International ConferencePSI17University of Utrecht, NL*
May 27th 20.3022.00 Shift with Andrea Bozic,
Joukje Kolff and Bertha Bermudez and Jeroen Fabius
THIS EVENT IS A COLLABORATION BETWEEN DANCE NOTATION SERIES ICKAMSTERDAM, ARTI GROUP AMSTERDAM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS AND MOTION BANK/THE FORSYTHE COMPANY
Dance is hard to see, wrote Yvonne Rainer when making her seminal
Trio A. In this panel we depart from both Rainers statement and the
work Trio A to raise questions of transmitting dance. How do technologies and systems of transmission, both old and new, mediate the process of learning a dance? What does it mean to re-construct a dance and what are the methods being used and in what combination? How do we evaluate a successful transmitted dance versus one that embraces the loss of translation over time and through bodies? Why the fascination with preserving dance at all?