Ari Tenhula
choreographer, researcher, Theatre Academy of Finland, Helsinki (FI)
Dance of simultaneous relations and meanings
Keywords: Dance art, dance and technology, mobile media
This paper will explain my choises for using digital technologies in dance by a brief look at the historical uses of technologies in dance and how current uses change our perception of dance. I will state my interest in creating performances that are hybrid and how these new practices in dance-technology can alter the performance, the role of the author and that of the audience.With a few examples I will present my practice which has led me to use dance animation and live processed video on performance. Further I will talk about my use of the internet in mapping imaginary metamorphoses in an installation/performance that used the method of distributed authorship. I will conclude by sharing thoughts on the use of dance and my views on location in the project Mobile Places Helsinki. I will discuss the ways in which I can undermine linear narratives of a space and find a way of creating dance acts that could foster alternative readings to a single location. For this I will look at the current discussion on ontology of modern dance and it's meaning for dance practice.
See also: Mobile Places , videoblog experiment
Ari Tenhula is choreographer, former director of the Helsinki City Theatre Dance Company and artistic director of the Moving in November dance festival. In 2003 he was recipient of the Finland prize for a particular achievement in art. His artistic research at the Theatre Academy of Finland probes embodied practices through projects that intertwine dance with different technologies. His current projects include experimental productions in virtual dance and videocast and micro choreography for mobile media.