Digital Echoes

This book explores the interplay between performing arts, intangible cultural heritage and digital environments through a compendium of essays on emerging practices and case studies, as well as critical, historical and theoretical perspectives. It features essays that engage with varied forms of intangible cultural heritage, from music and storytelling to dance, theatre and martial arts. Cases of digital technology interventions are provided from different geographical and cultural settings, from Europe to Asia and the Americas. Together, the collection reflects on the implications that digital interventions have on intangible cultural heritage engagements, its curation and transmission in diverse localities. The volume is a valuable resource for discovering the multiple ways in which cultural heritage is mediated through digital technologies, and engages with audiences, artists, users and researchers.

Brings an interdisciplinary perspective on a variety of geographical locations and cultural settings (from Europe to Asia) from which it draws case studies and examples Examines the relationship between performing arts and cultural heritage Focuses on intangible cultural heritage and highlights how practices that are regarded as intangible, such as dance and other bodybased performance practices can foster knowledge in unexplored territories

Auteur
Sarah Whatley is Professor of Dance and Director of the Centre for Dance Research at Coventry University, UK.
Rosamaria K. Cisneros is Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Dance Research at Coventry University, UK, and also an independent artist, film-maker, dancer and choreographer.
Amalia Sabiescu is Communications Researcher at the Institute for Media and Creative Industries at Loughborough University London, UK.

Contenu
1 Introduction 1 Sarah Whatley, Rosamaria K. Cisneros, and Amalia SabiescuPart I Critical and Reflexive Engagements.-2 Considering the Relationship Between Digitally MediatedAudience Engagement and the Dance-Making Proces.-Laura Griffiths and Ben Walmsley3 Performing the Uncanny: Psychoanalysis, Aestheticsand the Digital Double Suparna Banerjee4 The Implications of Technology in Dance: A Dancer's Perspective of Moving in Media-RichEnvironments Kerry Francksen.- Part II Space, Time and Memory: Digital Interventions.-5 Bark and Butterflies: Redeeming the PastDigital Interventions into Post-Memory Adrian Palka6 Chorotopical Art: Mediating the Atmospheres of CulturalSites to Create a New Spatial Logic Liana Psarologaki.= 7 (Ukulele) Strings of Knowledge: Tactile and Digital Interactivity with Archives and Ethnography Rachel M. Ward and Kate Hennessy.- 8 Open State: Event Spaces of Infinite Perspective Adam Benjamin and Mathew Emmet.-Part III Preserving the Intangible: New Tools andDocumentation Strategies .-9 Demystifying or Destroying? Cultural Heritage and Tradition in Playing the Tabla, and Developing the Electronic Tabla and Digital Notation System Jerri Daboo.-10 Digital Environments for Intercultural Content: A Case Study on the Asian Shakespeare Intercultural Archive Alvin Eng Hui Lim.-11 Mediating and Visualizing Paxton's Material forthe Spine Rebecca Stancliffe.-12 In/Tangible: The Duality of Video Documentationin Dance Heather Young Reed.-13 Kapturing Kung Fu: Future Proofing the Hong KongMartial Arts Living Archive Hing Chao, Matt Delbridge, Sarah Kenderdine, Lydia Nicholson, and Jeffrey Shaw.-Part IV Authorship, Ownership and Legal Aspects.-14 Presenting the Intangible: Curating the Intangible Cultural Heritagein the Museum PracticeLegal Aspects Teodora Konach15 Artworks-Spawning-Artworks: Trans-Disciplinary Approaches to Artistic Spin-Offs and Evolutionin the Dance and Digital Context Jordan Beth Vincent, Caitlin Vincent, Kim Vincs,Scott deLahunta, and John McCormick.- 16 Preservation and Paradox: Choreographic Authorshipin the Digital Sphere Hetty Blades.-17 Dance and Law: From Indifference to Rapport Charlotte Waelde Index