Developing a method for mapping the creative processes of multi-media performance works using choreological perspectives.

本项目旨在发展一种记录多媒体舞蹈剧场创作过程的方法。传统的舞蹈作品是通过记谱和/或电影/视频/数字媒体记录的。这通常代表了对单一表演作为艺术作品的简化关注，并且相对未被探索和记录的创作过程，所涉及的互动概念和模式。在后现代舞和舞剧中，记录一场表演，或将作品视为一个精心编排的事件，已经不再足够，也不是艺术家们看待自己作品的方式。过程和协作被认为与性能一样重要。这个项目将包含这个扩展的重点。威廉·福赛斯被公认为世界舞蹈戏剧的领导者。在他看来，一件作品既是它的创作过程，也是它的表演。通过关注Forsythe的过程作品，“小细节的丢失”，1986-2007（“丢失”），该项目将解决识别，记录和分析这样一个复杂的过程工作的问题。因此，它解决了需要暴露，并使研究和文档，创造性的过程以及他们的产品。瓦莱丽·普雷斯顿-邓洛普博士是编舞学和舞蹈戏剧作品文献研究领域的领军人物。在拉班，她可以访问由Forsythe基金会捐赠的与“失落”的发展有关的独特且未开发的混合媒体档案。2007年10月，拉班将与前Forsythe舞蹈家Ana Catalina Roman（最初参与创作“Loss”的舞蹈家之一）一起举办讲习班。这些拍摄和记录的讲习班将为本档案提供额外的材料，这些材料来自安娜·卡塔利娜·罗曼的具体知识，她将向选定的高级拉班学生教授作品及其发展过程中的关键动作短语。利用这些丰富、独特和未开发的档案，该项目将开发和应用舞蹈方法，作为未来应用的典范，以应对在复杂舞蹈作品中记录创作过程的挑战。普雷斯顿-杜洛普博士将测试她目前编舞方法的有效性，并通过发现构成Forsythe创新编舞方法的媒体之间的新关系，寻求发展与舞蹈剧院工作要求相关的方法。该项目的主要输出将是一个互动的“舞蹈地图”，以移动的图像、声音、文本和动作为特征，以一种揭示作品创造性发展和互动性的方式，以及Forsythe的特殊工作方法和他用于生产材料的复杂转换过程。“舞蹈地图”将会引起表演艺术家的兴趣，以及舞蹈和表演艺术的注释者、档案保管员和学者。

This project aims to develop a method of documenting the creative processes involved in multi-media dance theatre. Traditionally dance works are recorded via notation and/or film/video/digital media. This most often represents a reductive focus on a single performance as the work of art, and leaves relatively unexplored and unrecorded the creative processes, concepts and modes of interactivity involved. In post-modern dance and dance theatre recording one performance, or treating the work as one choreographed event, is no longer adequate, and is not how artists think of their works. Process and collaboration are recognized as being as important as performance. This project will encompass this expansion of focus.William Forsythe is acknowledged as a world leader in dance theatre. In his view a work is its creative processes as well as its performances. By focusing on Forsythe's process work, 'The Loss of Small Detail', 1986-2007 ('Loss') which changes with each mounting, this project will addressproblems of identifying, documenting and making available to analysis, such a complex process work. As such it addresses the need to expose, and make accessible to study and documentation, creative processes as well as their products.Dr Valerie Preston-Dunlop is a leading researcher in the field of choreology and the documentation of dance theatre works. Based at Laban she has access to a unique and unexplored mixed media archive relating to the development of 'Loss', donated by the Forsythe Foundation. Laban will be hosting workshops with former Forsythe dancer Ana Catalina Roman (one of the original dancers involved in the creation of 'Loss''), during October 2007. These filmed and documented workshops will provide additional materials for this archive drawing on the embodied knowledge of Ana Catalina Roman who will teach key movement phrases from the work and its developmental processes to selected advanced Laban students. Making use of this rich, unique and unexplored archive, this project will develop and apply choreological methods, as a model for future applications, to meet the challenges of documenting creative processes in complex dance works. Dr Preston-Dulop will test the efficacy of her current choreological methods and seek to develop them in relation to the demands of dance theatre work by discovering new sets of relaionships between the strands of media that constitute Forsythe's innovative choreographic methods. The main output of the project will be an interactive 'choreological map' featuring moving image, sound, text and motion in a way that will expose the work's creative development and interactivity, as well as Forsythe's particular methods of working and the complex transformation processes he uses to produce his materials. The 'choreological map' will be of interest to performing artists as well notators, archivists and scholars of dance and the performing arts.