Moving without a body : digital philosophy and choreographic thoughts / Stamatia Portanova.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: thinking choreography digitally -- Imag(in)ing the dance: choreo-nexus -- To perceive is to abstract -- Digital abstractions: the intuitive logic of the cut -- Remembering the dance: mov-objects -- Can subjects be preserved? -- Can objects change? -- Can objects be processes? -- Thinking the dance: compu-sitions -- Numbered dancers and software ballet -- When memory becomes creation -- A germ of conclusion: in abstraction.

Digital technologies offer the possibility of capturing, storing, and manipulating movement, abstracting it from the body and transforming it into numerical information. In Moving without a Body, Stamatia Portanova considers what really happens when the physicality of movement is translated into a numerical code by a technological system. Drawing on the radical empiricism of Gilles Deleuze and Alfred North Whitehead, she argues that this does not amount to a technical assessment of software's capacity to record motion but requires a philosophical rethinking of what movement itself is, or can become. Discussing the development of different audiovisual tools and the shift from analog to digital, she focuses on some choreographic realizations of this evolution, including works by Loie Fuller and Merce Cunningham. Throughout, Portanova considers these technologies and dances as ways to think --

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