[ISEA2013] Panel: Stephanie Hutchison & Kim Vincs – Dancing in Suits: A Performer’s Perspective on the Collaborative Exchange Between Self, Body, Motion Capture, Animation and Audience

Panel Statement

Panel: Mixed Reality Transformations: shifting relationships between movement, embodiment, somatics and image

Keywords: dance, motion capture, interactive performance, somatic practices.

The motion capture process places unique demands on performers. The impact of this process on the simultaneously artistic/somatic nature of dance practice is profound. This paper explores, from a performer’s perspective, how the process of performing in an optical motion capture system can impact and limit, but also expand and reconfigure a dancer’s somatic practice. This paper argues that working within motion capture processes affects not only the immediate contexts of capture and interactive performance, but also sets up a dialogue between dance practices within and beyond the motion capture studio.

  • Stephanie Hutchison, Deakin Motion.Lab, Deakin University, Burwood, AU
  • Professor Kim Vincs, Deakin Motion.Lab, Deakin University, Burwood, AU

Full text (PDF) p. 119-122