SESSIONS - PAPER


Capturing intention?
Documenting the EG | PC’s workshop Double Skin / Double Mind.
Marion Bastien, FRANCE

Dance company EG | PC is based in Amsterdam, where the partnership between Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten began in 1995. In 2005, EG | PC initiated the interdisciplinary research project:   Dance and Media; new ways of notating, documenting and recreating dance.

In 2006, a symposium around Dance and Media gathered people from different disciplines (gesture analysis, cognition research, cultural studies/ philosophy, cinematography/ documentary, interactive media design, dance notation – Benesh and Laban), forming an interdisciplinary team.

Based in the thematics of notation, documentation and recreation of dance this research project aimed to create a dynamic source of information. By the end of 2007, the research results were presented under different formats; DVD-ROM, a film documentary a publication and an interactive installation, all documenting the workshop Double Skin / Double Mind.

The workshop Double Skin / Double Mind represents the basis of  EG | PC creative work and has developed through the years a very clear meta-structure of core movements.

The paper will present the global project, and more specifically the notation issues: the challenge of notating a very specific technical style, in which inner intent is said to be crucial; the questions arising when documenting open structures (the warm up being taught mostly with prescriptive indications); the collaboration with other team members' disciplines.

Links
About the publication: www.ickamsterdam.com/index.php?art=248
About the workshop: www.ickamsterdam.com/index.php?art=362
About the installation: www.movingimages.de/index.php?type=txt&txt_id=30&lng=eng

Marion Bastien studied notation in France and at the Dance Notation Bureau, New York. She has notated works by Appaix, Bagouet, Bounonville and Decouflé, has taught notation at Conservatoire de Paris, Université Paris VII and Paris X, and has restaged solos or choral works. Member of the European Seminar for Kinetography (1985-1994), and ICKL fellow since 1995. She followed multimedia studies in 1997. She is now working half of her time at Centre national de la danse, in the “Memory and research” department, and works aside as freelance webmaster as well as on a few projects related to notation and dance.

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