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Decentering the Dancing Text
April 2002 - May 2003
Key Details
This project, 'Decentering the Dancing Text: an exploration of the interface between intertextuality and hypertextuality', was funded by an AHRB Innovation Award.
It was devised by Prof. Janet Lansdale (Dance) and Prof. Khurshid Ahmad (Computing) of the University of Surrey.
Lead researcher was Dr Deveril (Dance).
Key Aims
A key aim of the project was to investigate the potential of using a hypertext system to analyse dance pieces according to methods suggested by theories of intertextuality. (If you don't know what some of these terms mean, this website and the links are meant to explain the terminology, as well as describing the project and its results.)
Primarily, these webpages and links demonstrate some of the outcomes of the research and potential for future work. Some work was done in testing various methods of analysis and included is a wealth of related material, which despite not being linked using the system as sketched, might indicate the ways in which documents connect linguistically, thematically and philosophically. Some of the webpages reference specific performance pieces and while the final system would contain, and indeed be based around, digitised video clips, for simplicity's sake there are no media files accessible here.
A system for doing the kinds of things we imagine could be useful and beneficial to dance analysts still remains as only a blueprint and as an embryonic application, the Associative Writing Framework, being developed by Tim Miles-Board of the IAM Group at the University of Southampton.
Key Papers
The following links are to edited-for-the-web papers written about this project:
Introduction by Janet Adshead-Lansdale
Introduction by Deveril (3 parts)
Decentering the Dancing Text: From dance intertext to hypertext
Also of interest:
(An)notating Dance: Multimedia Storage and Retrieval
Chapter 1 of Tim Miles-Board's Thesis
Other Links
A Note on the Concept of "Hypertext"
Navigating Nowhere / Hypertext Infrawhere
Contact: Janet Lansdale
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