Siobhan Davies Dance Online

Siobhan Davies在线舞蹈项目将提供一个在线的、可搜索的数字档案，其中包括与Siobhan Davies舞蹈公司有关的表演记录、照片和文本材料。档案将是有价值的研究界在各级和不同的艺术学科，但特别是舞蹈研究界。该档案将包括主要资源材料，学术帐户和一些原始的分析评论，从收集的材料和专门组织的档案的混合。自20世纪70年代以来，Siobhan Davies一直是英国当代舞蹈发展的主要代表人物，Siobhan Davies舞蹈公司现在是英国领先的舞蹈公司之一，享有广泛的认可和好评。缺乏对公司收集的作品的访问，对围绕当代舞蹈的学术和艺术话语的发展构成了严重和持续的限制。该档案馆不仅将通过整理和数字化过程保存许多在当前状态下易受伤害的宝贵材料，而且还将以前所未有的方式提供对戴维斯工作的前所未有的访问。因此，该档案将大大提高舞蹈和相关领域研究人员的材料质量、范围和可用性。数字档案的开发完全符合公司将舞蹈带到更广泛社区的承诺，不仅使舞蹈作品更容易获得，而且还提供了开发新的和替代的方式来解释舞蹈语言的手段。戴维斯致力于研究过程中作为一个编舞，并认识到有必要提高获得有关本公司的工作机构和价值，这将在提高舞蹈作为一个可研究和受人尊敬的学科的形象。Siobhan Davies和公司都全力支持该项目，并致力于将其拥有的资源纳入档案库，并在需要时协助开发新资源（例如，采访材料，批判性分析等）。到2005年底，该公司将在伦敦南部的南华克定居。该大楼将为公司提供生产和行政基地。公司认为数字档案项目是这一新阶段工作的重要补充，它将补充公司的实体建筑基础，以及建筑在提供许多不同层次和形式的当代舞蹈方面的作用，包括作为舞蹈从业者和研究人员的中心。该项目的受益者将包括舞蹈历史学家、社会学和舞蹈领域的研究人员、舞蹈从业人员、舞蹈教育工作者、社区艺术研究人员和学生。此外，该项目将提供机会，调查最有效的数字化方法，以保存和展示不同和不同的舞蹈材料，这可以在研究界产生更广泛的影响。该项目将由考文垂大学表演艺术系主任Sarah Whatley博士领导，他对Siobhan Davies对英国当代舞蹈的贡献进行了研究。该项目位于大学的媒体，艺术和表演中心，在Karen Ross教授的指导下，将为该中心的应用研究战略做出重大贡献，并加强学术界和从业者社区之间的界面。

The Siobhan Davies Dance Online project will provide an online, searchable digital archive of recorded performances, photographic and textual materials relating to the Siobhan Davies Dance Company. The archive will be of value to the research community at all levels and across different arts disciplines, but particularly the dance research community. The archive will comprise a mix of primary resource material, scholarly accounts and some original analytic commentaries created from the collected materials and organised specifically for the archive. Siobhan Davies has been a leading dance exponent since the 1970s, having had a significant role in the development of British contemporary dance, and Siobhan Davies Dance Company is now one of Britain's leading dance companies, enjoying widespread recognition and critical acclaim. The lack of access to the body of collected works by the Company constitutes a serious and on-going limitation to the development of academic and artistic discourse around contemporary dance. The archive will not only preserve many valuable materials that are vulnerable in their current state through the process of collation and digitisation, but will also provide unprecedented access to Davies' work in a way that has not been possible before. The archive will therefore significantly enhance the quality, range and availability of materials to researchers in the dance and related fields. The development of a digital archive is fully in keeping with the Company's commitment to take dance to a wider community, not only making more readily available the choreographic work but also providing the means to develop new and alternative ways of interpreting the language of dance. Davies is committed to the research process as a choreographer and recognises the need to enhance access to the body of work relating to the Company and the value this will have in improving the profile of dance as a researchable and respectable academic discipline. Both Siobhan Davies and the Company fully support the project and are committed to making the resources in their ownership available to be included in the archive and assisting with the development of new resources where required (for example, interview material, critical analyses etc.). By the end of 2005, the Company will take up residence in their new permanent home in Southwark, South London. The building will provide the Company with a production and administration base. The Company considers the digital archive project as an important addition to this new phase of work, it will complement the physical building base of the Company and the role of the building in providing access to many different levels and forms of contemporary dance, including as a centre for dance practitioners and researchers. Beneficiaries of the project will include dance historians, researchers in the field of sociology and dance, dance practitioners, dance educators, researchers in community arts and students. Additionally, the project will provide opportunities to investigate the most effective digitisation methods for the preservation and presentation of disparate and varied dance materials, which can have wider impact within research communities. The project will be led by Dr Sarah Whatley, Head of Department, and Performing Arts at Coventry University, who has conducted research into the contribution of Siobhan Davies to British contemporary dance. Positioned within the University's Centre for Media, Arts and Performance, under the direction of Professor Karen Ross, the project will make a major contribution to the Centre's strategy for applied research as well as enhancing the interface between academic and practitioner communities.