forum: Helen Bailey - e-Dance
Helen Bailey is Principal Lecturer at the Department of Performing Arts & English, University of Bedfordshire. She has specialised teaching interests in choreography, dance-theatre performance, and the integration of dance and contemporary media. Helen has an international record in cross-disciplinary research in dance and new technologies and is the Principal Investigator of the e-Dance project.
e-Dance, in a very simplified summary, explores the use of e-science tools and methods for dance and performance (and vice/versa). Specifically, e-Dance deals with two questions:
What unique opportunities does the distributed Access Grid environment provide for developing new approaches to choreographic composition and process and within this context how can we find new, appropriate and meaningful methodologies for capturing and modelling practice-led research?
How can choreographic knowledge and sensibility help to shape e-Science practice to make its applications more usable within the field of performance arts practice-led research as well as the broader Arts and Humanities context?
At least with the general public, technology is probably not the first word that would come to mind if someone mentioned "dance". Could you tell us a little bit about how you became involved with using technology as part of your dance research and practice?
