Generative Dance: How to engage in colaborative projects
Lecture
Duration: an hour
Friday, 04 April 2025 | 15:00 > 16:002025-04-04T15:00:00.000Z | Meeting Tent Lectures
Generative Dance is an innovative approach to choreography that fosters collective creation through structured relational rules, mathematical choreographic objects, and motor creativity. This talk explores strategies for engaging in collaborative dance projects, emphasizing co-presence, shared focus, and mutual attention as key elements in the creative process. By integrating methodologies from improvisation, movement analysis, and participatory composition, the Generative Dance framework enables dancers and visual artists to interact dynamically, co-compose in real-time, and develop emergent choreographic structures. The discussion highlights practical tools and facilitation techniques to enhance cooperation, adaptability, and intersubjective experience in artistic communities.
Author
- Dance artist, choreographer, researcher and educator working across generative dance, improvisation, collective composition, community dance and complex systems. PhD candidate in Dance Studies at the University of Lisbon and researcher at INET-md. My research explores generative dance as a self-organizing dynamic system, focusing on choreographic emergence, agent-based models, relational scores, GDAM® and togetherness.
