Sue Whatley
Biographic Data
| ID | 1230553 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sue Whatley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sue |
| FAMILY NAME | Whatley |
| SIGNATURE | WHATLEY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Coventry University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7455-0847 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Expanding Relationships between Dance, Disability, and Prostheses
Innovations in technology have improved life experiences for people with disabilities by focusing on enhancing function, engagement, and access, often within a medical, therapeutic, or rehabilitation paradigm. What has been less in view is how technologies have impacted on the practice of disabled dance artists within art-making. Disabled dancers have integrated technologies in their practice, expanding the body/machine relationship and questioni…
Introduction
Personalising prosthetics
This paper emerges from an interdisciplinary collaboration between prosthesis-using disabled dance artists, computer scientists, dance researchers and engineers to explore the transformative potential of digital technologies to co-create aesthetically personalised prosthetics from dance movements. Beginning with the dancers performing improvised movement sequences in motion capture suits, which drove a computational design algorithm, an ‘aestheti…
Approaches to Dance (4)
This reflective essay traces a pathway through dance, beginning with the early influences in dance training and scholarship, through to building a University dance programme and research centre. With reference to the many scholars and artists who have been so important to this journey, the essay seeks to offer a glimpse into how a career in dance research often twists and turns through teaching, practice, writing and collaboration
Embodied cultural property
This article discusses the implications of recording and digitizing a variety of cultural and contemporary dance performance practices, core to a European project known as WhoLoDancE, which focused on issues of reuse, ownership, property, and responsibility. The recordings and subsequent processing of dance material into digital data raised questions about the responsibilities to the dancers who have contributed their material to the project, par…
Mapping a City’s Energy
This essay looks at how embodied knowledge of the city can be shaped by the intentional movement of dance and sensory mapping experiments, through a close examination of two different movement practices undertaken as part of the Dancing Bodies in Coventry(DBiC) project. The essay also explores the different ways in which embodied experiences of urban space and place are documented, as well as what the hybridisation of the digital and the bodily m…
Towards Hybridity
This article considers the many layered and multi-faceted questions of hybridity as interdisciplinary encounter through the lens of a central case study – the EU-funded project, CultureMoves (2018-2020), on which the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) was a collaborating partner. With Europeana principles as a backdrop for the re-use of cultural heritage content, CultureMoves was an 18-month long project that aimed to develop a series of digital …
Virtual Reality and Choreographic Practice
Virtual reality (VR) is becoming an increasingly intriguing space for dancers and choreographers. Choreographers may find new possibility emerging in using virtual reality to create movement and the WhoLoDancE: Whole-Body Interaction Learning for Dance Education project is developing tools to assist in this process. The interdisciplinary team which includes dancers, choreographers, educators, artists, coders, technologists and system architects h…
A Report on the Screendance Symposium
No abstract availableThis report was originally published by Parallel Press, an imprint of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, as part of The International Journal of Screendance, Volume 2 (2012), Parallel Press. It is made available here with the kind permission of Parallel Press
The Thin Blue Line of Theodicy
This essay explores the concept of theodicy in Flannery O'Connor's works of fiction. O'Connor's fiction complicates the subjects of good and evil, moving the reader through what seem to be competitions not only between good and evil, but also between actions of good and actions of evil. Characters align themselves with one force, then another, in a constantly fluctuating system, and there is no traditional pattern of Christian warfare that we wou…
Who can Profit from Dance? An Exploration of Copyright Ownership
Focusing on UK copyright law, this article explores ownership of the dance by reference to the work of disabled dance artists. Our attention is on this group because their position within the dance workforce has always been precarious and so perhaps have most to gain through greater recognition of authorship in their work. Through an examination of the law as it applies to two different projects featuring Caroline Bowditch, we suggest that, contr…
Motion Capturing Emotions
The paper explores the activities conducted as part of WhoLoDancE: Whole Body Interaction Learning for Dance Education which is an EU-funded Horizon 2020 project. In particular, we discuss the motion capture sessions that took place at Motek, Amsterdam as well as the dancers’ experience of being captured and watching themselves or others as varying visual representations through the HoloLens. HoloLens is Microsoft’s first holographic computer tha…
Bodily extensions and performance
In contemporary technological society, bodily extension has become a regular occurrence for many people. Extensions can attach to or connect with human bodies to adjust, change or augment them in p
Transmitting, Transforming, and Documenting Dance in the Digital Environment
Dance artists and researchers have worked together and with digital media to produce tools, resources, and “choreographic objects” — experiments in how to document and transmit the processual, somatic, and multisensory properties of dance. These objects impact the artists, modes of analysis, and archival strategies in dance, and make a wider contribution to performing arts practice, theory, and education
Sondra Fraleigh, Moving Consciously
Digital movement
This stimulating collection brings together a range of writers, many of who presented their work at the conference that spawned the book ‘Corporeal Computing’ (University of Surrey, UK, 2013). The
IJSD Volume 7 2016 All This
The full issue of IJSD vol. 7 (2016).Please note: For the best offline reading experience, please print double-sided on 8.5x11 paper. Links to online sources are live in the PDF if read onscreen
Recovering and Reanimating ‘Lost’ Traces
Siobhan Davies RePlay provides open access to a significant collection of performances, photographs, and text-based materials, and includes a large number of rehearsal tapes that offer a unique insight to the dance making process. Following the development of simple capture technologies, Davies’ dancers have recorded and reviewed their own movement experiments or ‘scratches’. These previously private memory objects enter the public domain via the…
Choreographic documentation
Siobhan Davies RePlay
This article provides an in-depth description of the many layers and processes involved in constructing a digital dance archive; Siobhan Davies RePlay. Three years after the archive went ‘live’ the article revisits its development and explores the impact of the archival process on the artists and researchers involved. It traces the ways in which a digital archive can be seen as an extension of the artist's work, reflecting back on the artist's cr…
Born digital; dance in the digital age
This article will explore the convergence of dance and digital technologies with reference to a project that is bringing together a leading choreographer and a team of researchers to create a digital archive. The key question that the article will address is whether a re-examination of digital technology in relation to its representation of the corporeal, coupled with a widening knowledge base and acceptance by creators and audiences of ‘experien…
Digitizing Siobhan Davies Dance
This paper outlines progress so far on an AHRC-funded project led by researchers at Coventry University to create a digital archive of the work of British choreographer, Siobhan Davies. The paper will discuss how the processes involved in translating the ‘live’ or the analogue recording to the digitised have raised questions around the nature of representation and the curatorial process. In working collaboratively with Davies and her company, the…
Archives of the Dance (21)
In 2006, an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) grant was awarded to researchers at Coventry University to create a digital archive of the work of Siobhan Davies Dance. The award is significant in acknowledging the limited resources readily available to dance scholars as well as to dance audiences in general. The archive, Siobhan Davies Dance Online, 1 will be the first digital dance archive in the UK. Mid-way through the project, Sarah W…
Dance Identity, Authenticity and Issues of Interpretation with Specific Reference to the Choreography of Siobhan Davies
Choreographers regularly make revisions to their work. Revisions that are made are sometimes significant and can radically alter the dance whilst other changes may be almost invisible to the viewer. In the case of Siobhan Davies, revising dances has become a regular feature of her work. This paper represents a case study, which is designed to shed some further light on this process
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Dance Identity, Authenticity and Issues of Interpretation with Specific Reference to the Choreography of Siobhan Davies
Choreographers regularly make revisions to their work. Revisions that are made are sometimes significant and can radically alter the dance whilst other changes may be almost invisible to the viewer. In the case of Siobhan Davies, revising dances has become a regular feature of her work. This paper represents a case study, which is designed to shed some further light on this process
Digitizing Siobhan Davies Dance
This paper outlines progress so far on an AHRC-funded project led by researchers at Coventry University to create a digital archive of the work of British choreographer, Siobhan Davies. The paper will discuss how the processes involved in translating the ‘live’ or the analogue recording to the digitised have raised questions around the nature of representation and the curatorial process. In working collaboratively with Davies and her company, the…
Archives of the Dance (21)
In 2006, an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) grant was awarded to researchers at Coventry University to create a digital archive of the work of Siobhan Davies Dance. The award is significant in acknowledging the limited resources readily available to dance scholars as well as to dance audiences in general. The archive, Siobhan Davies Dance Online, 1 will be the first digital dance archive in the UK. Mid-way through the project, Sarah W…
Born digital; dance in the digital age
This article will explore the convergence of dance and digital technologies with reference to a project that is bringing together a leading choreographer and a team of researchers to create a digital archive. The key question that the article will address is whether a re-examination of digital technology in relation to its representation of the corporeal, coupled with a widening knowledge base and acceptance by creators and audiences of ‘experien…
Recovering and Reanimating ‘Lost’ Traces
Siobhan Davies RePlay provides open access to a significant collection of performances, photographs, and text-based materials, and includes a large number of rehearsal tapes that offer a unique insight to the dance making process. Following the development of simple capture technologies, Davies’ dancers have recorded and reviewed their own movement experiments or ‘scratches’. These previously private memory objects enter the public domain via the…
Choreographic documentation
Siobhan Davies RePlay
This article provides an in-depth description of the many layers and processes involved in constructing a digital dance archive; Siobhan Davies RePlay. Three years after the archive went ‘live’ the article revisits its development and explores the impact of the archival process on the artists and researchers involved. It traces the ways in which a digital archive can be seen as an extension of the artist's work, reflecting back on the artist's cr…
Sondra Fraleigh, Moving Consciously
Digital movement
This stimulating collection brings together a range of writers, many of who presented their work at the conference that spawned the book ‘Corporeal Computing’ (University of Surrey, UK, 2013). The
IJSD Volume 7 2016 All This
The full issue of IJSD vol. 7 (2016).Please note: For the best offline reading experience, please print double-sided on 8.5x11 paper. Links to online sources are live in the PDF if read onscreen
Who can Profit from Dance? An Exploration of Copyright Ownership
Focusing on UK copyright law, this article explores ownership of the dance by reference to the work of disabled dance artists. Our attention is on this group because their position within the dance workforce has always been precarious and so perhaps have most to gain through greater recognition of authorship in their work. Through an examination of the law as it applies to two different projects featuring Caroline Bowditch, we suggest that, contr…
Motion Capturing Emotions
The paper explores the activities conducted as part of WhoLoDancE: Whole Body Interaction Learning for Dance Education which is an EU-funded Horizon 2020 project. In particular, we discuss the motion capture sessions that took place at Motek, Amsterdam as well as the dancers’ experience of being captured and watching themselves or others as varying visual representations through the HoloLens. HoloLens is Microsoft’s first holographic computer tha…
Bodily extensions and performance
In contemporary technological society, bodily extension has become a regular occurrence for many people. Extensions can attach to or connect with human bodies to adjust, change or augment them in p
Transmitting, Transforming, and Documenting Dance in the Digital Environment
Dance artists and researchers have worked together and with digital media to produce tools, resources, and “choreographic objects” — experiments in how to document and transmit the processual, somatic, and multisensory properties of dance. These objects impact the artists, modes of analysis, and archival strategies in dance, and make a wider contribution to performing arts practice, theory, and education
The Thin Blue Line of Theodicy
This essay explores the concept of theodicy in Flannery O'Connor's works of fiction. O'Connor's fiction complicates the subjects of good and evil, moving the reader through what seem to be competitions not only between good and evil, but also between actions of good and actions of evil. Characters align themselves with one force, then another, in a constantly fluctuating system, and there is no traditional pattern of Christian warfare that we wou…
Virtual Reality and Choreographic Practice
Virtual reality (VR) is becoming an increasingly intriguing space for dancers and choreographers. Choreographers may find new possibility emerging in using virtual reality to create movement and the WhoLoDancE: Whole-Body Interaction Learning for Dance Education project is developing tools to assist in this process. The interdisciplinary team which includes dancers, choreographers, educators, artists, coders, technologists and system architects h…
A Report on the Screendance Symposium
No abstract availableThis report was originally published by Parallel Press, an imprint of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, as part of The International Journal of Screendance, Volume 2 (2012), Parallel Press. It is made available here with the kind permission of Parallel Press
Towards Hybridity
This article considers the many layered and multi-faceted questions of hybridity as interdisciplinary encounter through the lens of a central case study – the EU-funded project, CultureMoves (2018-2020), on which the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) was a collaborating partner. With Europeana principles as a backdrop for the re-use of cultural heritage content, CultureMoves was an 18-month long project that aimed to develop a series of digital …
Mapping a City’s Energy
This essay looks at how embodied knowledge of the city can be shaped by the intentional movement of dance and sensory mapping experiments, through a close examination of two different movement practices undertaken as part of the Dancing Bodies in Coventry(DBiC) project. The essay also explores the different ways in which embodied experiences of urban space and place are documented, as well as what the hybridisation of the digital and the bodily m…
Approaches to Dance (4)
This reflective essay traces a pathway through dance, beginning with the early influences in dance training and scholarship, through to building a University dance programme and research centre. With reference to the many scholars and artists who have been so important to this journey, the essay seeks to offer a glimpse into how a career in dance research often twists and turns through teaching, practice, writing and collaboration
Embodied cultural property
This article discusses the implications of recording and digitizing a variety of cultural and contemporary dance performance practices, core to a European project known as WhoLoDancE, which focused on issues of reuse, ownership, property, and responsibility. The recordings and subsequent processing of dance material into digital data raised questions about the responsibilities to the dancers who have contributed their material to the project, par…
Introduction
Personalising prosthetics
This paper emerges from an interdisciplinary collaboration between prosthesis-using disabled dance artists, computer scientists, dance researchers and engineers to explore the transformative potential of digital technologies to co-create aesthetically personalised prosthetics from dance movements. Beginning with the dancers performing improvised movement sequences in motion capture suits, which drove a computational design algorithm, an ‘aestheti…
Expanding Relationships between Dance, Disability, and Prostheses
Innovations in technology have improved life experiences for people with disabilities by focusing on enhancing function, engagement, and access, often within a medical, therapeutic, or rehabilitation paradigm. What has been less in view is how technologies have impacted on the practice of disabled dance artists within art-making. Disabled dancers have integrated technologies in their practice, expanding the body/machine relationship and questioni…
Art (21 works) · Visual arts (21 works) · Dance (16 works) · Diversity and Impact of Dance (15 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · Aesthetics (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Human Motion and Animation (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Theatre and Performance Studies (6 works)