Siobhan Davies Dance Online

西沃恩·戴维斯舞蹈在线项目将提供一个在线的、可搜索的数字档案，包括与西沃恩·戴维斯舞蹈团有关的记录表演、照片和文本材料。该档案将对各级研究界和不同艺术学科，特别是舞蹈研究界有价值。档案将包括主要资源材料，学术账户和一些原始分析评论，这些评论是从收集的材料中创建的，并专门为档案组织。自20世纪70年代以来，西沃恩·戴维斯一直是英国现代舞的领军人物，在英国现代舞的发展中发挥了重要作用，西沃恩·戴维斯舞蹈团现在是英国领先的舞蹈团之一，享有广泛的认可和好评。由于无法接触到舞团的全部作品，对围绕当代舞蹈的学术和艺术讨论的发展构成了严重和持续的限制。档案馆不仅将通过整理和数字化的过程保存许多有价值的材料，而且还将以前所未有的方式提供对戴维斯作品的前所未有的访问。因此，该档案将大大提高舞蹈和相关领域研究人员材料的质量、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，不仅使编舞工作更容易获得，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。作为一名编舞家，Davies致力于研究过程，并认识到有必要增加对公司相关工作的访问，以及这将在提高舞蹈作为一门可研究和受人尊敬的学科的形象方面具有的价值。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，并在需要时协助开发新资源（例如，采访材料，关键分析等）。到2005年底，该公司将在他们位于伦敦南部南华克的新永久住所。该大楼将为公司提供生产和管理基地。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和建筑的作用，提供许多不同层次和形式的现代舞，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、舞蹈从业者、舞蹈教育者、社区艺术研究人员和学生。此外，该项目将提供研究最有效的数字化方法的机会，以保存和呈现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莎拉·沃特利博士领导，她曾对西沃恩·戴维斯对英国现代舞的贡献进行过研究。该项目位于大学媒体、艺术和表演中心，由Karen Ross教授指导，将为该中心的应用研究战略做出重大贡献，并加强学术和实践社区之间的联系。

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.