Matt Gough Blog [closed]: DDV part one
Friday, May 13 2005, 01:56
linguistic models do not apply to movement in general terms but, it may be possible to apply such models to distinct domains, or individual dance work. Parsing the syntactic features of a dancework could provide rapid feature extraction for dance analysis.
Syntactic parsing of Labanotation would be particularly useful when examining the dance archives. The application of suitably modified linguistic models might facilitate the deep visualisation of a choreographic corpus.
The visualisation of Labanotation beyond movement animation will be significant importance once Labanotation interlingua and a digital archive have been established.
I feel that the UK has yet to make a significant contribution to dance technology beyond performance applications. The development of deep visualisation technologies for dance would extend not only to dance tech and dance analysis but also dance science.
Will the dance community wait until it's too late to develop a fully integrated system, or rely on Computer Science to define the framework? Given recent history I expect so, but there is another way,but what UK institution has the vision to undertake such an unusual development?
As i noted in my pervious post, technical solutions should not be isolated from their contextual application. Deep dance visualisation (DDV) should be developed in a dance context with computational expertise. I would argue that outside of this context significantly novel and applicable research will be elusive.
so where and how to develop DDV, my first suggestion would be to align the research with dance science, performance, theory and notation. There a few institutions with such a mix, so perhaps a specific multidisciplinary group should be formed as an inter university project. Indeed, a collaborative approach would improve the profile and adoption of the finished product.
So, in the absence of a school of 'dance studies, science and mediation' i can only imagine the "DDV group" developing such technology. The remit of the group should be to produce a a tools for ddv that can be used by dance experts and novices, from secondary education to univertsity and professional practice.
i will return to this soon ...
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