Laura Karreman starts Chapter 2 “Dance as Knowledge” of her PhD dissertation titled The Motion Capture Imaginary: Digital Renderings of Dance Knowledge (2017) with the following: “A Striking feature of the contemporary field of dance practice and research is the way in which motion capture technologies are increasingly applied in the effort to analyze, interpret…

The final Transmission in Motion seminar delved into the topic of dance notation and the exchange of knowledge related to dance choreography so that the session was about ways to transmit motion and how to make dance accessible as a type of knowledge. This blog post wants to be a short report of the meeting…

Thinking about dance and its endurance through time, it is impossible not to think about how dancing is a part of our everyday lives; walking through the streets we are called to “dance” with other bystanders and perform carefully choreographed movements to avoid walking into them or the way we navigate ourselves through a busy…

When artist and scholar Suzan Tunca brought up the importance of worldmaking in dance, it seemed to be evocative for a discipline seeped in western classicism. Using Nelson Goodman’s philosophical work Ways of Worldmaking (1978), Tunca describes that artistically, we behave by constitutively “rendering” our world. Instead of values of correctness, it is subjectivity that…

At the last Transmission in Motion seminar, taking place May 26th, 2021, dance researcher Suzan Tunca and assistant professor Laura Karreman discussed the relationship between dance and language, as used in both the studio and academia. Contrary to the common conception of dance, as an artform ‘far removed from language’, Tunca explained the importance of…

                            In the seminar “Mobilising the Dance Archive: How to Transmit Intuitive Body Knowledge? (26 May 2021)” with Suzan Tunca and Laura Karreman, the question that struck me most was the question of how knowledge is defined? Further to this, what types…

The final Transmission in Motion (TiM) seminar of this academic year covered the topic of dance notation and the transference of knowledge pertaining to dance choreography – basically; it was about transmission of motion. Yet, in this final blog post, I would like to focus on an expressive medium that at a glance seems rather stationary: that of written,…

During the online seminar “Mobilizing the Dance Archive: How to Transmit Intuitive Body Knowledge?”, Suzan Tunca and Laura Karreman introduced the inspiring notion of “dance knowledge” and how to preserve and transmit this type of knowledge through the “Motion bank.” The “dance knowledge” includes but is not limited to the intelligence in choreographic practice, such…

Metaphors are useful for getting an idea across by creating a shared framework of meaning. As a figure of speech, what Shaun Gallagher and Robb Lindgren (2015) call ‘sitting metaphors’, we can encounter them in text. Ideally, metaphors will make us think and guide our understanding. However, the authors point to a different way of…

In the case of Lianne Toussaint and Pauline van Dongen, the meeting of an academic and fashion designer led to an ongoing collaboration whose output consists of both creative products and research – two practices that strongly inform and become deeply entangled with one another. In “In Touch with the Now: Stimulating Mindfulness through a…