Multimodal Glossaries: A New Entrance to Artistic Insights of Dance Praxis

摘要

Through different multimedia examples, of websites, DVD-ROM titles and the description and aims of the research project Pre-choreographic elements based on the work of Emio Greco - PC, this lecture focuses on the potential of multimodal glossaries as tools for representation of choreographic praxis. The role of practitioners is key to this proposal, where special emphasis is placed on the terminology used by the artists within their own creative process. Terms reveal the way concepts and ideas are appropriate to the artist, they provide an entrance into their artistic cognitive map while offering a resourceful content from which to derive interfaces and semantic relations. This approach aims at opening the artistic processes of creation from the perspective of those involved, dancers, dramaturges, and choreographers. The collection of different media such as text, images, and sounds linked to specific principles used by choreographers in their praxis can become a fruitful way of displaying, teaching, acquiring, browsing, and sharing dance knowledge.