Moving Without A Body: Digital Philosophy and Choreographic Thoughts by Stamatia Portanova, MIT Press:

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. Continue reading

Augmented Reality Dance :: October 7, 2012 :: World-Wide Call for Participation. Continue reading

Fifth Wall is an App designed for the iPad that considers the digital tablet as a new performance space. It explores the unique spatial, visual, and temporal conditions of the tablet, and its possibilities for choreography. Continue reading

for the time being: a choreosonic performance by DAP-Lab :: May 26, 2012; 7:30 pm :: Watermans, 40 High Street, Brentford, UK.

for the time being explores the sound of movement in a 30-minute premiere of a new stage work inspired by the Russian Futurist opera Victory over the Sun (1913) and its fantastical visual designs. Nearly a hundred years ago, the Futurists collaborated on an eccentric vision of a society to come, based on revolutionary fervor of the time. The DAP-Lab’s choreosonic performance, both comic and unsettling in places, is an intimate piece that looks at our current precarious existence in a world full of outworn clichés of revolutions. Continue reading

BMW Tate Live: Performance Room: Jérôme Bel :: March 22, 2012; 8:00 pm :: online. Continue reading

Discotrope: The Secret Nightlife of Solar Cells :: March 19, 2012 :: Reception: 7:00 pm :: Performance: 7:30 pm :: gallery@calit2, Atkinson Hall, 9500 Gilman Drive #0436, La Jolla, California.

Discotrope: The Secret Nightlife Of Solar Cells is an audiovisual performance by Amy Alexander and Annina Rüst, with sound design by Cristyn Magnus. Performances invoke both alternative energy and the curious history of dance in cinema -– from backlots to backyards. Continue reading

Expanded Choreography. Situations, Movements, Objects… :: March 29-31, 2012 :: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Plaça dels Àngels, 1 08001, Barcelona, Spain. Continue reading

Moments. A History of Performance in 10 Acts :: March 8 – April 29, 2012 :: Opening: March 17; 4:00 pm :: ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Lorenzstrasse 19, 76135 Karlsruhe, Germany. Continue reading

Performance Series at Dia:Beacon — Yvonne Rainer :: February 25-26, 2012; 12:00 pm and 2:00 pm + May 13; 1:00 pm and 3:00 pm :: Dia:Beacon, 3 Beekman Street, Beacon, NY. Continue reading