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Research

   
 
Jan 2009 - present
  Blog: 'The Art of Sabbatical'


   
June 2010

The AHRC Screendance Network is launching a new Journal of Screendance, the first-ever scholarly journal dedicated to the growing area of inter-disciplinary practice of Screendance. Launch at the American Dance Festival, Durham, North Caroline, June 2010.
Editors: Douglas Rosenberg and Claudia Kappenberg.


 
April 2010
 

What If… festival, A festival drawing from work in film, dance, live and visual art co-curated by 5 artists with a background in dance, visual art and film-making. The co-curators are Lucy Cash, Becky Edmunds, Claudia Kappenberg and Chirstinn Whyte with Gill Clarke from Independent Dance.
Slideshow of documentary photos by Andrew Downs.

The festival breaks new grounds in the curation of screendance, situating it within a wider discourse of moving-image, live performance and choreographic practices. What if… has commissioned 10 writers to respond to the works exhibited in the festival and the writing will be published in the summer 2010 issue of the Dance Theatre Journal.


   
 
December 2009
  'Discourse and Publication in Screendance', paper given at Archiv/Praxis, Universitaet Leipzig, Germany November 2009.


   
 
April 2009
 

Awarded AHRC Network Grant for research into Discourse and Publication on Screendance.

The project runs for 2 years and includes US and UK-based researchers and scholars.
http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/screendance

 

   
 
April 2009
  “Does Screendance need to look like dance?”, paper given at Exploring the screen as a site for choreography, Screen dance research event, University of Bristol, Department of Drama, Theatre, Film & Television, Cantocks Close, Bristol, UK.

 
   
 
Dec 2008
  ‘Bread Tools and Mittens’; performance presentation for Bodies In Motion: Exploration In Perception And Performance, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, US.


   
 
June 2008
  “Does Screendance need to look like dance?”, paper given at ‘Screendance State of the Art 2’, American Dance Festival, Duke University, North Carolina, US.
http://dvpg.net/screendance2008.html


   
November 2007

‘Exhausting the Screen’, paper given at Open Source {Video-Dance}, 2nd International Conference for Screendance, Findhorn, Scotland.


June 2007

'A reading of the film Entre’acte', paper given at MOVES, International Screen Choreography Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester
www.miriad.mmu.ac.uk/visualculture/inc/moves

 

  Since Oct 2006  

PhD at the University of Brighton.
The research project is entitled The Body as Site Beyond Purpose; it proposes a critical inquiry into some key concepts of Georges Bataille and their relevance for contemporary live and performance art.

 

   
  June 2006   Scribe/ Documentor for Open Source - Video Dance, a conference at Findhorn, Scotland, exploring the current state of Dance for the Camera through new strategies for debate and documentation.

 
   
  March 2006   Reconstructions of dances from the 1920ís by Choreographer Hilde Holger at the Laban Centre, London, as part of the Hilde Holger Centenary, performed by students of the Dance and Visual Arts Course, University of Brighton.
 
   
  October 2005   Hilde Holger Centenary, video presentation for centenary of Choreographer Hilde Holger, Austrian Cultural Forum, London.

 
   
 
June 2004
  The Use of Uselessness, presentation for Plato's Symposium, The Leleg Institute, Bodrum, Turkey. 


   
 
June 2003
 

Paper at Improvisation Conference Liverpool entitled 'The Unknown Other in Performance'. Liverpool John Moore's University.

 

   
 

July 2003

 

T/Reason presentation and screening of work for public research debate for the Royal College of Art at the Serpentine Gallery, London.

   
 
July 2003
  Chair of panel discussion with Yvonne Rainer and Deborah Hay, London International Summerschool, Greenwich Dance Agency, London.    
     

Publications

 

   
 
June 2010
  'The Logic of the Copy, from Appropriation to Choreography', article to be published in the Journal of Screendance, Parallel Press and the University of Wisconsin, Madison Wisconsin, US.


   
 
January 2010
  'Does Screendance need to look like dance?', article published in the International Journal of Performing Arts and Digital Media (PADM). Edited by Prof Sherril Dodds the issue is wholly dedicated to research and discourses on Screendance.


   
 
May 2009
 

Open Source {Video-Dance}, Goat Media LTD 2009. Proceedings of conference at Findhorn, Scotland, 2007.

You can order both OSVD books online at www.go-at.co.uk


   
 
June 2007
  Open Source {Video-Dance}, Goat Media LTD 2007,
Images and notes of conference at Findhorn, Scotland, 2006, exploring the current state of Dance for the Camera with new strategies for debate and documentation. See http://videodance.blogspot.com/
   
January 2006


Hilde Holger, Spirit and Maracas, Co-authorship of a chapter with Prof Liz Aggiss for Anarchic Dance, published by Routledge Jan 2006. The chapter discusses the work of Austrian Choreographer Hilde Holger.

©2006-2010 Claudia Kappenberg