A Simple Tool for Remote Real-Time Dance Interaction in Virtual Spaces, Or “Dancing in the Metaverse”

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Strutt, Daniel. 2022. A Simple Tool for Remote Real-Time Dance Interaction in Virtual Spaces, Or “Dancing in the Metaverse”. Critical Stages/Scènes critiques, 25, ISSN 2409-7411 [Article]

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This article is a reflection upon practice-led research, undertaken during the pandemic, that addressed emergent forms of interactive, immersive, and virtual performance. Through experimental workshops we developed a network framework for the streaming of motion captured dance data, such that dancers could explore embodied co-presence within virtual spaces. I allow the dancers’ voices to directly address this research, describing their own feelings about the potential for remote dance creation. They describe how these practices sit adjacent to, and in many ways are antagonistic to, professional disciplined modes of dance work. We then ask, can remote motion-captured dance be elevated to being a truly poetic mode of creative performance, or is it merely a tool for a kind of loosely directed dance play?

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motion capture, virtual, telematic, streaming, dance, pandemic

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