Motion Capturing Emotions

Abstract: The paper explores the activities conducted as part of WhoLoDancE: Whole Body Interaction Learning for Dance Education which is an EU-funded Horizon 2020 project. In particular, we discuss the motion capture sessions that took place at Motek, Amsterdam as well as the dancers’ experience of being captured and watching themselves or others as varying visual representations through the HoloLens. HoloLens is Microsoft’s first holographic computer that you wear as you would a pair of glasses. The study embraced four dance genres: Ballet, Contemporary, Flamenco and Greek Folk dance. We are specifically interested in the kinesthetic and emotional engagement with the moving body and what new corporeal awareness may be experienced. Positioning the moving, dancing body as fundamental to technological advancements, we discuss the importance of considering the dancer’s experience in the real and virtual space. Some of the artists involved in the project have offered their experiences, which are included, and they form the basis of the discussion. In addition, we discuss the affect of immersive environments, how these environments expand reality and what effect (emotionally and otherwise) that has on the body. The research reveals insights into relationships between emotion, movement and technology and what new sensorial knowledge this evokes for the dancer.

Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Motion Capturing Emotions ; volume:1 ; number:1 ; year:2017 ; pages:504-513 ; extent:10
Open cultural studies ; 1, Heft 1 (2017), 504-513 (gesamt 10)

Creator
Wood, Karen
Cisneros, Rosemary E.
Whatley, Sarah

DOI
10.1515/culture-2017-0047
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2411131640246.410596153059
Rights
Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Wood, Karen
  • Cisneros, Rosemary E.
  • Whatley, Sarah

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