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1-2: Listen to Performance, Listen to Voices
  • ISSN: 2057-0341
  • E-ISSN: 2057-035X

Abstract

This article describes the ways in which the voice of French dancer Stéphanie Pons was animated with the making of a multimodal archive the . It was based on the reconstruction of a dance that she had performed over 28 years ago, choreographed by Angélin Prelocaj. This was part of the study developed within the context of the IDEX-funded Performance Lab from 2019 to 2022 at the University of Grenoble. The notion of frequencies emphasizes the idea of the dancer ‘tuning’ into the repeated action of a movement and identifying its specific gestural quality. It illuminates the ways in which multimodal archiving methods activated the dancer’s agency and perspective of dancing through voicing and sonifying gesture.

Funding
This study was supported by the:
  • Agence Nationale de la Recherche under the ‘Investissements d’avenir’ (Award ANR-15-IDEX-02)
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