Digital dance writing. A teaching tool to support the understanding of Digital Choreography

ABSTRACT The document reports on the use of digital dance annotation in teaching students who come from different disciplines how to apply their own forms of dance-writing to support reading and making choreography. During classes, the Motion Bank System PieceMaker was used to support processes of investigation including the movement analysis of different dance techniques and the reenacting of body traces inscribed in choreographic paper scores. This report will describe three experiments conducted by students of the interdisciplinary classes in Digital Choreography at the Sapienza University of Rome. It will conclude with some speculation on the role digital dance annotation can play in the creation of new teaching methods in performing arts.