Summer 2010 VOL. 35 NO. 2
CQ chapbook 1: newDANCEmedia

 i         editor note:  Melinda Buckwalter

2         DARKLING:
           enter technology where is the body?
           by Hélène Lesterlin

5         JONAH BOKAER:
           moving toward an embodied technology

           interview by Nancy Wozny

18       THE CHOREOGRAPHIC RESOURCE:
           technologies for understanding dance
           by Scott deLahunta

28       WILLIAM FORSYTHE:
           on his interactive online project: Synchronous Objects
           at Festspeilhaus, Dresden, April 2009
           interviewed by Marlon Barrios Solano, for dance-tech.net

...plus CQ Online Journal Article Gallery
           DIVING THE LOOP:
           a computer-mediated choreographic process
           by Dawn Stoppiello/Troika Ranch


                                                                     see contributor notes

[cover photo] REPLICA. Choreography and performance by Jonah Bokaer and Judith Sanchez Ruiz, scenography by Daniel Arsham, video design by Bokaer. Harman Center for the Arts, Washington DC. July 2009.
photo © Michael Hart, www.hartharthart.com

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VOL. 35 NO. 2 supplement
CQ DANCE DIRECTORY & AD SUPPLEMENT

Here is the place to find display ads and listings for dance programs, schools, studios, and organizations worldwide that offer concentrated study in dance, including improvisational forms, contemporary dance, and somatic approaches to training and performance. Published annually in May. Covers ongoing and special events/programs from June through Dec. 2010.

The Dance Directory and Dance Map classifieds sections of this supplement are also viewable online.

[cover photo] Megan Boyd [left] and Jordan Fuchs performing Fuchs's The Almost and the Nearly, 2005, Danspace, NYC.
photo © Katja Kulenkampff

36 pp. $5

CONTRIBUTOR NOTES

MARLON BARRIOS SOLANO, creator and producer of dance-tech.net, is a Venezuelan, NYC-based, online experimental producer, researcher, and lecturer with a hybrid background in dance, interactive technologies, and cognitive science. dance-tech.net

JONAH BOKAER is an award-winning choreographer and media artist. He has dedicated a short lifetime to expanding the potential of live performance onstage, online, and in virtual environments through the use of digital media, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and social enterprise, in the US and internationally. Current collaborators include Daniel Arsham, Aaron Copp, Anne Carson, Christian Marclay, Isaac Mizrahi, SNARKITECTURE, and Robert Wilson. www.jonahbokaer.net

SCOTT DELAHUNTA works from his base in Amsterdam/Berlin as a researcher, writer, consultant, and organizer on a range of international projects, bringing performing arts with a focus on choreography into conjunction with other disciplines and practices. www.sdela.dds.nl.

WILLIAM FORSYTHE is a choreographer whose work is acknowledged for reorienting the practice of ballet from its identification with classical repertoire to a dynamic 21st-century art form. Forsythe's deep interest in the fundamental principles of organization has led him to produce a wide range of projects, including installations, films, and web-based knowledge creation. www.theforsythecompany.com

HÉLÈNE LESTERLIN works at the junction of contemporary dance, theater, visual art, and sound. She misses dancing in ESL (Emergent Scores Lab), an improvisation practice she founded with Margit Galanter and Jack Magai. She is currently making Darkling, raising her daughter Sophie, and curating for EMPAC at Rensselear Polytechnical Institute in Troy, NY. She holds a BA in art from Yale College and an MFA in dance from Bennington College. www.atlasdance.org

DAWN STOPPIELLO is a choreographer, dancer, and media artist who has dedicated her career to computer-mediated live performance. She is cofounder and artistic co-director of Troika Ranch, a dance/theater/media ensemble now operated from a troika of cities: Portland, OR; Berlin, Germany; and New York, NY. Dawn's leg of the Troika tripod stands in Portland, where she also rides a bike, gardens, drinks perfect beer, and speculates on grand schemes. www.troikaranch.org.

NANCY WOZNY is a contributing editor at Dance Magazine, Houston, and Dance Source Houston. She contributes to Culturemap, Pointe, Dance Teacher, and other publications. She was a 2005 NEA Fellow at the Institute for Dance Criticism and a 2003 winner of the Gary Parks Award for Emerging Dance Critics from the Dance Critics Association. www.dancehunter.blogspot.com

ADDITIONAL ISSUE CONTRIBUTORS:
Daniel Arsham, Remy Charlip, Barbara Clark, Eleonora Fassina, Molissa Fenley, Raoul Auger Feuillet, Michael Hart, Aaron Henderson, Adriene Hughes, Ann Hutchinson Guest, Paul Kaiser/OpenEnded Group, Thomas Lenden, Yvonne Meier, Béatrice Paquereau, Dana Reitz, Elizabeth Streb, Synchronous Objects Project/The Ohio State University & The Forsythe Co., Felisa Victoria, Delphine Verrières/Musée d'art contemporain–Nimes, Carolyn Wachniki

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