[dance-tech] Re: theory query & krumping
- From: "Johannes Birringer" <Johannes.Birringer@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <dance-tech@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 01:06:39 -0000
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Just as breaking, electric boogaloo, krump, hyphie, etc, have emerged
as powerful and relevant dance forms outside institutional
structures; can we expect an emergence of some kind of digitally
mediated/enhanced dance? Will this new form be as culturally
significant as the above mentioned forms of (for lack of a better
phrase) "street dance"? Will it be characterized by a division of
labor.
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thanks for asking these questions, Tony. They are good questions, and rarely is
street dance, and the techniques devoloped "outside" the institutions,
addressed in dance technology research forum contexts, theories, or the dance
circuit/festival scene, although this may be a differentiated situation and
vary from location to location. Hip hop is part of the dance scene, however,
and it has also been commodified by high culture (Rhythm is it), and it is part
of a much wider economic spectrum (the music industry, etc).
so one would need to examine carefully what kind of practices are enabled (in
what kinds of relations of production) in the spectrum, and Troika Ranch, for
example, are not part of "powerful university institutions", and dance,
incidentally, often does not occupy much economic power in institutions in the
first place (our science and engineering folks here have research funding one
can only dream of, so do the "human factors" researchers, as they draw from
military funds). there is much bottom up work being done by artists, many of
whom are independent, and do not get funded by the military-industrial
entertainment complex. they are often not the ones that are written about.
(but check Yvonne Watson's presentation:
http://www.digitalcultures.org/Library/Yvo.html)
regards
Johannes Birringer
DAP-Lab
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