Conferência de Scott deLahunta (Coventry University): "Choreography and Cognition: applying insights from science to dance creation".
FCSH-UNL, Auditório 1, 28 Novembro, segunda-feira, 18H00
For over a decade London-based choreographer Wayne McGregor and Scott
deLahunta have been researching new understandings of choreographic
practice through an interdisciplinary collaboration with specialists
in the field of cognitive science. This research fuelled the creation
of original choreographies by McGregor and has generated new tools and
methods informed by science for enhancing creativity in dance. Scott
deLahunta will outline some of this research with a focus on the
development of Choreographic Thinking Tools that draws on a
macro-theory titled Interacting Cognitive Subsystems developed by Dr.
Phil Barnard (formerly of the Cognition and Brain Studies Unit,
Medical Research Council, Cambridge), also a long-time collaborator on
the project. http://www.randomdance.org/r_research
BIO: Scott deLahunta has worked as a writer, researcher and organiser
on a range of international projects bringing performing arts with a
focus on choreography into conjunction with other disciplines and
practices. He has taught for various education institutions in the
past including the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam
(1994-2006) based at the Amsterdam School of the Arts, where he also
co-developed the Amsterdam Masters in Choreography program. From
2006-2010, he was Research Fellow with the Art Theory and Research and
Art Practice and Development Research Group, Amsterdam School for the
Arts, where he worked closely with the dance company Emio Greco | PC.
Scott is currently Senior Research Fellow Coventry University/
R-Research Director, Wayne McGregor|Random Dance and Program Leader
Motion Bank/ The Forsythe Company. http://www.sdela.dds.nl/
Organização do Centro de Linguí¬stica da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, e em colaboração com o Programa Doutoral em Digital Media (Programa UT Austin | PT),
