Intellect

Authors:  Pauline Brooks 
DOI: 10.1386/padm.6.1.49_1

Keywords
new spaces,spatial zones,telematic performance,live/projected,dance,

Abstract
The article describes the practice-led research of Pauline Brooks and Luke Kahlich, and how telematic dance has been used to create new spaces for performance and for collaborative choreography. It explains the spatial zones that have been created from the use of video-conferencing to link their studio theatres, which are situated on each side of the Atlantic in Liverpool and Philadelphia. It discusses the three projects in which Brooks and Kahlich have collaborated, with particular reference to the choreographic use of space and how that has evolved over the life of the projects. It considers how audiences are presented with a stage space that includes both live and projected dancers and discusses the importance of the screen and the video camera in creating new performance environments. It reflects upon the performance spaces that are a construct of live/projected-visible and invisible dancers, and it codifies aspects of the new spaces for performance that have revealed themselves during the projects.