Projecting Performance: Interrelationships between performance and technology, dancer and operator

预测性能是性能学者和数字技术专家之间的合作。该项目的重点是舞者之间的编排和场景交流，以及在剧场背景下投射的数字图像。它质疑表演过程以及表演者和技术专家之间的公认界限，促进在创意开发的迭代周期中进行对话。这项研究在不同的层面上解决了这些问题：-什么定义了表演者-舞者、投影图像和表演者-操作者之间的关系？-可以使用什么方法来让表演学者和数字技术专家参与有效的协作研究？如今，投影数字图像在戏剧制作中被广泛使用，但它们的使用通常被限制在与表演者作为严格计时的独奏者的预先录制的镜头中，或者通过计算机控制的互动，表演者需要触发技术。这个项目调查了表演者、放映和技术操作员之间的一组新的相互关系，其中操作员也成为控制和自发地呈现在舞台上的数字图像中的“表演者”。舞台表演者与舞台外的操作员互动，后者同时观看、控制并‘表演’舞台‘画面’中的投影图像。数字图像的表现力通过与舞台表演者一起编排的抽象形式集中了操作者动作的质量。直接将表演和技术人员在过程和表演中结合在一起的作品仍然很少见。促进这种融合的合作方法值得进一步探索，以使学术界和专业界共同受益。通过这项研究，我们确定了我们工作的一些潜在过程，作为绩效和新技术领域的合作者，在绩效研究实验室的背景下。我们的工作实践如何相互补充，我们需要在哪里妥协或找到替代方法？这项研究项目的发现对21世纪编排和布景中人与技术之间的关系具有重要影响。这项研究中性能和技术之间的对话揭示并发展了合作研究的进一步方法。

Projecting Performance was a collaboration between performance academics and digital technologists. The project focused on the choreographic and scenographic exchange between dancers and projected digital images within a theatrical context. It questioned processes of performance and perceived boundaries between performers and technologists, promoting dialogues in iterative cycles of creative development. The research addressed these issues at different levels:- What defines relationships between the performer-dancer, the projected image and the performer-operator?- What methodologies might be used for the engagement of performance academics and digital technologists in effective collaborative research?Projected digital images are widely employed in theatrical productions today, but their use is frequently constrained either to pre-recorded footage with the performer as strictly-timed soloist, or though computer-controlled interactions where the performer needs to trigger the technology. This project investigated a new set of interrelationships between performer, projection and technical operator, where the operator also becomes a 'performer' both controlling and being spontaneously present in the digital image on stage. The stage-performer interacts with the off-stage operator, who simultaneously sees, controls and 'performs' the projected image in the stage 'picture'. The expressive nature of thedigital image concentrates the quality of the operator's movement through abstract forms that are choreographed with the stage performer.Work that directly integrates performance and technologist in both process and performance is still rare. Collaborative methods that facilitate such integration deserve further exploration for the combined benefit of both academic and professional communities. Through this research, we identified some underlying processes of our work as collaborators from the fields of performance and new technologies, within the context of the performance research laboratory. How did our working practices complement each other, and where did we need to compromise or find alternative approaches?The findings from this research project have critical implications for relationships between humans and technology in 21st century choreography and scenography. The dialogue between performance and technology in this research has exposed and developed further methodologies for collaborative research.