DANCE

On the occasion of the publication of his new book, Performance, Technology, and Science (cover pictured, New York, PAJ Publications, 2008), theatre director/choreographer Johannes Birringer will address ideas and suggestions for the interrelationship of digital media art, performance, and choreography, show film excerpts from his latest production, Corpo, Carne e Espírito, which premiered in Brasil last June, as well as from Suna no Onna, his collaborative dance work with fashion and interactive/smart garment designers, which was shown at London’s Laban Centre.

He will address the recent history of dance and technology and the emergence of interactive art and bio art in an international context of art & science collaboration.

Birringer is artistic director of the Houston-based AlienNation Co. and directs the Center for Contemporary and Digital Performance at Brunel University, London. He has created numerous multimedia dance-theatre productions in Houston since moving here in 1987, including Invisible Cities, Ad Mortem, North by South, Parachute, and Mirak, and his digital dance and screen-based works have been shown at festivals around the world. He is the author several books including Dance & Cognition, Media and Performance, and Performance on the Edge.