Siobhan Davies Dance Online
Lead Research Organisation:
Coventry University
Department Name: Art and Design
Abstract
The Siobhan Davies Dance Online project will provide an online, searchable digital archive of recorded performances, photographic and textual materials relating to the Siobhan Davies Dance Company. The archive will be of value to the research community at all levels and across different arts disciplines, but particularly the dance research community. The archive will comprise a mix of primary resource material, scholarly accounts and some original analytic commentaries created from the collected materials and organised specifically for the archive.
Siobhan Davies has been a leading dance exponent since the 1970s, having had a significant role in the development of British contemporary dance, and Siobhan Davies Dance Company is now one of Britain's leading dance companies, enjoying widespread recognition and critical acclaim. The lack of access to the body of collected works by the Company constitutes a serious and on-going limitation to the development of academic and artistic discourse around contemporary dance. The archive will not only preserve many valuable materials that are vulnerable in their current state through the process of collation and digitisation, but will also provide unprecedented access to Davies' work in a way that has not been possible before. The archive will therefore significantly enhance the quality, range and availability of materials to researchers in the dance and related fields.
The development of a digital archive is fully in keeping with the Company's commitment to take dance to a wider community, not only making more readily available the choreographic work but also providing the means to develop new and alternative ways of interpreting the language of dance. Davies is committed to the research process as a choreographer and recognises the need to enhance access to the body of work relating to the Company and the value this will have in improving the profile of dance as a researchable and respectable academic discipline. Both Siobhan Davies and the Company fully support the project and are committed to making the resources in their ownership available to be included in the archive and assisting with the development of new resources where required (for example, interview material, critical analyses etc.).
By the end of 2005, the Company will take up residence in their new permanent home in Southwark, South London. The building will provide the Company with a production and administration base. The Company considers the digital archive project as an important addition to this new phase of work, it will complement the physical building base of the Company and the role of the building in providing access to many different levels and forms of contemporary dance, including as a centre for dance practitioners and researchers.
Beneficiaries of the project will include dance historians, researchers in the field of sociology and dance, dance practitioners, dance educators, researchers in community arts and students. Additionally, the project will provide opportunities to investigate the most effective digitisation methods for the preservation and presentation of disparate and varied dance materials, which can have wider impact within research communities. The project will be led by Dr Sarah Whatley, Head of Department, and Performing Arts at Coventry University, who has conducted research into the contribution of Siobhan Davies to British contemporary dance. Positioned within the University's Centre for Media, Arts and Performance, under the direction of Professor Karen Ross, the project will make a major contribution to the Centre's strategy for applied research as well as enhancing the interface between academic and practitioner communities.
Siobhan Davies has been a leading dance exponent since the 1970s, having had a significant role in the development of British contemporary dance, and Siobhan Davies Dance Company is now one of Britain's leading dance companies, enjoying widespread recognition and critical acclaim. The lack of access to the body of collected works by the Company constitutes a serious and on-going limitation to the development of academic and artistic discourse around contemporary dance. The archive will not only preserve many valuable materials that are vulnerable in their current state through the process of collation and digitisation, but will also provide unprecedented access to Davies' work in a way that has not been possible before. The archive will therefore significantly enhance the quality, range and availability of materials to researchers in the dance and related fields.
The development of a digital archive is fully in keeping with the Company's commitment to take dance to a wider community, not only making more readily available the choreographic work but also providing the means to develop new and alternative ways of interpreting the language of dance. Davies is committed to the research process as a choreographer and recognises the need to enhance access to the body of work relating to the Company and the value this will have in improving the profile of dance as a researchable and respectable academic discipline. Both Siobhan Davies and the Company fully support the project and are committed to making the resources in their ownership available to be included in the archive and assisting with the development of new resources where required (for example, interview material, critical analyses etc.).
By the end of 2005, the Company will take up residence in their new permanent home in Southwark, South London. The building will provide the Company with a production and administration base. The Company considers the digital archive project as an important addition to this new phase of work, it will complement the physical building base of the Company and the role of the building in providing access to many different levels and forms of contemporary dance, including as a centre for dance practitioners and researchers.
Beneficiaries of the project will include dance historians, researchers in the field of sociology and dance, dance practitioners, dance educators, researchers in community arts and students. Additionally, the project will provide opportunities to investigate the most effective digitisation methods for the preservation and presentation of disparate and varied dance materials, which can have wider impact within research communities. The project will be led by Dr Sarah Whatley, Head of Department, and Performing Arts at Coventry University, who has conducted research into the contribution of Siobhan Davies to British contemporary dance. Positioned within the University's Centre for Media, Arts and Performance, under the direction of Professor Karen Ross, the project will make a major contribution to the Centre's strategy for applied research as well as enhancing the interface between academic and practitioner communities.
Organisations
Publications
Bremser, Martha; Sanders, Lorna; Bramley, Ian; Jowitt, Deborah
(2009)
Fifty Contemporary Choreographers
Leclercq, Nicole; Rossion, Laurent; Jones, Alan R.
(2010)
Capter L'essence Du Spectacle Un Enjeu De Taille Pour Le Patrimoine Immateriel Capturing the Essence of Performance the Challenges of Intangible Heritage: Societe Internationale Des Bibliotheques Et Musees Des Arts Du Spectacle (27e Congres : Glasgow, 25-29 Aout 2008) International Association of Libraries and Museums of the Performing Art (27th Congress: Glasgow, 25-29 August 2008)
Qiu C
(2022)
Recent advances in integrated optical directed logic operations for high performance optical computing: a review.
in Frontiers of optoelectronics
Sarah Whatley (Author)
Archives of the Dance: Siobhan Davies Dance Online
Whatley S
(2013)
Recovering and Reanimating 'Lost' Traces: The Digital Archiving of the Rehearsal Process in Siobhan Davies RePlay
in Dance Research
Whatley S
(2008)
Digitizing Siobhan Davies Dance
in Body, Space & Technology
Description | Choreographic Objects; Traces and Artefacts of Physical Intelligence |
Amount | £15 (GBP) |
Funding ID | AH/G000840/1 |
Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 04/2008 |
End | 10/2010 |
Description | Choreographic Objects; Traces and Artefacts of Physical Intelligence |
Amount | £15 (GBP) |
Funding ID | AH/G000840/1 |
Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 04/2008 |
End | 10/2010 |
Description | D-TRACES |
Amount | £50 (GBP) |
Organisation | Jisc |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2010 |
End | 03/2011 |
Description | D-TRACES |
Amount | £50 (GBP) |
Organisation | Jisc |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2010 |
End | 03/2011 |
Description | Digital Dance Archives |
Amount | £300 (GBP) |
Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 01/2010 |
End | 12/2010 |
Description | Digital Dance Archives |
Amount | £300 (GBP) |
Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2010 |
End | 07/2011 |
Title | The database is a comprehensive catalogue of digital dance objects created by the development of a metadata standard for dance |
Description | |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Provided To Others? | No |
Description | Dance Inscriptions in Real and Virtual Spaces |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | A guest talk as part of the University of Surrey's research seminar series |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Digital Dance: Siobhan Davies RePlay |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | A presentation that considered the impact of digital archives on dance practice |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Digital Echoes |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | An annual symposium that brings together experts in developing digital archives in performance hosted at Coventry University |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Digital Tools |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | A presentation on the application of RePlay within educational contexts Part of a panel presentation examining digital dance resources as part of the Biennale Tanzausbildung: Kulturerbe Tanz, Frankfurt, Germany |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Making Siobhan Davies RePlay; the UK's first digital dance archive - the pleasure of preserving intangible cultural heritage' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research or patient groups |
Results and Impact | A keynote presentation as part of the ECLAP conference, Florence, Italy |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Making it Happen: Siobhan Davies RePlay/Digital Dance Archives' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | This presentation was part of an event hosted by a BBC/Arts Council England partnership on Building Digital Capacity for the Arts |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Preserving the Intangible: capturing the process of dance in development |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research or patient groups |
Results and Impact | A presentation as part of the event: The Art, Theory, and Practice of Movement Capture Symposium, London Knowledge Lab, London |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Recovering and reanimating 'lost' traces; the digital archiving of the rehearsal process in Siobhan Davies RePlay |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | A conference presentation as part of the Society for Dance Research conference: British Dance Institutions: Past, Present and Future, University of Roehampton, London |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Siobhan Davies RePlay |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | A presentation about the challenges in capturing and documenting ephemeral performance practices As part of the CAIRO project at the University of Bristol |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Siobhan Davies RePlay - Impact: Serendipity or design |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | A presentation as part of the Digital Economy All Hands Conference, University of Newcastle |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Siobhan Davies RePlay - building digital archives |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | A presentation as part of the National Library of Wales conference on digital archives of performance with a focus on the Brith Gof collection |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Siobhan Davies RePlay and the Digital Dance Archives |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research or patient groups |
Results and Impact | A paper that discussed the building of digital dance archives |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Watching Live and Virtual dance: negotiating the relationship between embodiment and technology' Moving the Boundaries, March, University of Oxford/Oxford Dance Festival (guest speaker) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research or patient groups |
Results and Impact | A conference paper that explored the relationship between live and virtual dance, drawing from the archive for examples |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | What is the future of a dance archive?; Siobhan Davies RePlay |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | A presentation at the International Choreographic Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |