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A Research Laboratory Report:
TRANSDANCE

Research Lab on Body, Motion and Technology
23-31 May 2001, Athens, Greece

Scott deLahunta

Began in the arts as a dancer and choreographer. Since 1992, as a partner of Writing Research Associates (WRA), he has organised several international workshop/ symposia projects in the field of performance including recently the third session of Conversations on Choreography at the Institute for Choreography and Dance, Cork, Ireland. From February-May 1999, Mr. deLahunta was a guest professor with the Department of Dramaturgy, Aarhus University, Denmark where he was also co-organiser of the Digital Theatre Experimentarium, a project investigating the relationship between motion capture, animation and live performance. He is frequently invited to facilitate workshops, give presentations and contribute to publications on the overlap between dance and new media technologies. In Autumn 2001, the WRA initiative *Software for Dancers* will conduct the first in a series of research labs/ thinktanks looking to develop new software tools for performance artists.

Sophia Lycouris

Is a London-based dance artist, a company director and lecturer. Her work explores cross-disciplinary performance and multimedia work (including digital media) that bring together elements of movement, sound and image as part of wider choreographic environments. Since 1997, Sophia Lycouris has directed KUNSTWERK-BLEND a project-based company committed to interdisciplinary and hybrid work, for which she has created performances, performance/installations and web-based work. Sophia Lycouris holds a PhD in improvised performance in dance, and has been teaching dance and interdisciplinary practices at The Nottingham Trent University since 1997. She has recently received an Arts and Humanities Research Board fellowship to undertake a 3-year long project in interdisciplinary choreographic explorations.

Is an artist who works in different media, including photography,video, video events involving dj's + performers, public performances, web-based telepresence environments + networking technologies. One of her earlier establishing projects, "Translocal: Camp in My Tent", an interactive video and telepresence networked environment has been exhibited at Witte de With, Rotterdam, 1996 (Manifesta I) and Art + Idea, Mexico City, and Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok, Poland among others locations. Her more recent web-based data streaming project SMELL.BYTES has been shown widely including in the 24th Sao Paulo Biennial, 1998 (Cannibalism), The Swiss Institute, NY ("Tenacity"); ZKM, Karlsruhe,Germany, ("Net_Condition"). Her work has been supported by a range of organisations such as the Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Canada; International Artists Residency OMI, 2000 ,New York and the MECAD/the Media Center of Art+Design in Barcelona,The Swiss Institute, N.Y City, The Institute for research in the Arts, Tempe,AZ.

Is co-artistic director of Company in Space based in Melbourne, Australia. He is a choreographer and electronic artist, and his work with the company ranges from designing real time vision orchestration, new applications of telecommunication systems to deliver interactive art as well as overall concept and direction of image, choreography and technology. John is currently an artist in residence at RMIT's Interactive Information Institute researching live interactive performance over the Internet. As well as creating electronic artworks, John has created a number of cross art events and performance installations. He has taught and performed in China , Hong Kong and Taiwan. In 1994 he was the winner of ABC Radio National Fringe Award for the Best Cross Arts Event.

Studied musical theory and composition in Athens, conducting architecture, electronic and computer music and musicology in Paris and Cologne. He has worked in several studios such as the Electronic Music Studio of Music Academy in Cologne the ICEM in Essen and STEIM in Holland. He has taught computer music in Cologne, Essen, Basel and Athens. Since 1989, he has lived in Athens where he is co-founder and director of the Institute for Research on Music & Acoustics (IEMA). He is a pioneer of computer music in Greece, having started to use the computers in music creation in 1978. Since then, he has composed dozens of pieces with the aid of the capabilities of modern technology. The domain of his actual creative interest is music generated as a real-time translation of movement to sound. He has composed 45 pieces in several forms including music for the theatre, cinema, dance and music installations.

Studied painting in Superior School of Fine Arts in Athens and now creates interactive installations and films. In 1997, he was an official Greek participant at the 47th Biennale of Venice and was awarded with the Benesse prize for his work "black box". He has taken part in many team exhibitions of which the most important are: Modernita Progetto 2000 (1996); Fondazione Palazzo Bricherasio, Torino; Global Vision (1998); Institute DESTE, Athens; Europe in the Box, Gallery ACC Vaimar; MIXUP (1999) Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York; Benesse Prize Winners; Museum Benesse, Naosima, Japan; "Synopsis 1- Communications" (2000) Contemporary Art Museum, Athens.

Is the founder and director of Oktana Dance Theatre. The company has presented over fifteen works in Greece and abroad. Its first work was Body Remember (April 1990), and in the same year Rigos was awarded 2nd prize in the 'Rallou Manou' choreographic competition for Have you seen the Acropolis yet?. Since then, the company and Rigos have received many awards including the National Dance Award of the Ministry of Culture three times. The company has presented work abroad at Lisbon Biennale, the Theatri di Vita in Bologna, in Stockholm for the Cultural Capital of Europe, at the Aerowaves - Resolution in London and in 7th Iberoamericano Festival of Theatre, Bogota, Colombia amongst other places. The company receives continuous sponsorship from the Greek Ministry of Culture. Konstantinos Rogos has also worked for National and private theatre companies including National theatre of Greece, National theatre of Northern Greece, Amore Theatre, etc. and has also worked for cinema, tv, and opera.

Graduated from the Bezalel Academy of Art in sculpture and ceramics and continued his studies in dance at the Rubin Academy of Music and Dance, the Bat-Sheva Dance Company School, and the Stuttgart Ballet. Currently director of Sharir Dance Company, the resident professional Dance Company of the University of Texas at Austin's College of Fine Arts, which, under his direction, has produced, presented, and collaborated with companies such as the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, the Trisha Brown Dance Company, the Lewitzky Dance Company and many others. Sharir has a long and continuing commitment to exploring the overlap between dance and technology. In an early ground breaking project, with a fellowship from the Banff Centre for the Arts, Sharir collaborated with visual artist Diane Gromala and architect Marcos Novak on a virtual reality and cyberspace project entitled, "Dancing with the Virtual Dervish-Virtual Bodies."

A media artist graduated in Architecture and Media Art. Since 1993 he has been working at ZKM Karlsruhe (Center for Art and Media), Germany, and has created many award-wining museum art installations and CD-ROMs in collaboration with international artists at ZKM Karlsruhe, National Gallery of Canada, Ballet Frankfurt and Goethe Institute, Germany. Since 2000 he has been an "Artist in Residence" at ZKM Karlsruhe where he is working on the development of SCANNED a Dance Performance Environment. He has been engaged in several dance and technology projects that explore the Internet as a Possible performance space including "delay_01" and CELLBYTES2000. He is currently taking part in a London based initiative *Software for Dancers* that is conducting the first in a series of research labs/ thinktanks looking to develop new software tools for performance artists.

Yiannis and Stavrula Skourogiannis, Chrysostomos Maslatzidis, Maria Softsi
ALAS, GR - http://www.filmart.gr

David and Alex Chalkidis
AMY Digital Video, Vrilissia, GR - http://www.amy.gr/amydv

David Lowe and Tim Doubleday
VICON/ Oxford Metrics, UK - http://www.vicon.com

Spyros Frigas
ANIMAX, Athens, GR