Dance Annotation By Rebecca Stancliffe
Questions around dance annotation. Transmission// Technology// Documentation.
Dance Annotation—Rebecca Stancliffe
In recent year dance publications have emerged that use annotation as a tool revealing and illuminating choreographic thinking. Rebecca’s research considers how annotation impacts the way movement is seen, analysed, interpreted, and understood.
Annotation Shifts
How does the nature and value of annotation shift in accordance to whether they are used as process or process, their form formal or informal, or intended as published or private?
Should the markings in choreographic sketchbooks be viewed as annotations or notations? And how do they relate to the dance work or creative process? Is their value only temporary?
Process of Annotation
How do an individual’s skills, knowledge, and expertise inform the process and product of annotation?
Literary Vs. Dance annotation
How does the annotation of dance content different from the ubiquitous practice of literary annotation?
Independence
Digital Dance Annotation Tools enable artists to annotate their own video content.
Annotation in action
And appear geared towards surface level annotation or tagging/identifying structural markers.
Photo Credit: Europeana Space DancePro tool. Courtesy of the Dance Pilot.
Photo Credit: Europeana Space DancePro tool. Courtesy of the Dance Pilot.
Web Annotation Tools
Web Annotation Tools privilege textual practice and text-based sources.
How can dance perform on the web and in search engines as temporal content?
