Hyperchoreography
Hyperchoreography is a concept for dance on the world wide web conceived by Katrina McPherson and Simon Fildes of Goat. Using digital hypermedia, hyperchoreography is a non-linear dance performance space existing in an interactive medium. The dance can be altered by user interaction by navigating through hyper-linked moving images.
2002 'BIG'
‘Hyperchoreography’ originated from their experience of making video-dance, in which they had become aware that the final edit of a dance film was only one ending in a range of possibilities.
They found that the material not used in the final edit could be just as interesting as what made it into the actual film. This led them to offer the audience an alternative approach - whereby the elements of the film were put in place by the creators, but the shape of the work was decided by the user at the moment of interaction.
The first version of ‘hyperchoreography’ – titled ‘Big’ – was made in 2002 by Goat through funding by Scottish Screen and New Media Scotland. The material used to create ‘Big’, was made by Katrina and Simon, with Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite and Ricochet Dance Productions during a residency hosted by Dance East.
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2002 'BIG'
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‘Big’ was launched in November 2002 and has been widely acclaimed as an exciting way to explore the potential for making original, interactive dance for the world wide web. |
Truth is the next ‘hyperchoreoghrapy’ produced by Goat and was launched at Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen 29 October 2004. The video dance ‘Truth’, produced by Goat and Ricochet Dance Productions, takes its starting point from the widespread use of CCTV and how these are exploited to develop speculative narratives around certain events. It looks at how the same information can be interpreted in completely different ways depending on point of view, perspective and other related information.
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This provided ideal basis for a non-linear hyperchoreographic work for the web. The four characters form the film can be followed in their different relations through the work as the viewer selects different parts of their dance. The relationship between them will change depending on which clips are selected.
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2004 'The Truth:The Truth'
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Goat was established in 2001 by Katrina McPherson and Simon Fildes, who both seperately and as a team are recognised in Scotland and internationally as leading artists in the field of video-dance.
In 2002 Katrina was awarded a Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland Award, to research and write a work-book on making video-dance.
Simon Fildes, orginally a musician, was a recipient of a 'Year of the Artist' award in 2001, and was in 2003 selected as New Media Artist-in-Residence for two Highland areas in 2004.
| For more information on hyperchoreography visit hyperchoreography.org |
Supported by the National Lottery through the Scottish Arts Council
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