Projects
Combining targeted radionuclide therapy and cancer immunotherapy to advance precision medicine through innovation. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Capturing Dance Movements, Intensities and Embodied Experiences: Research into New Possibilities of Digital Media for Dance Analaysis and Notation based on Face (1982) by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, ROSAS Ghent University
In translating dance movements into sign, important information about dance experience and embodied expression tend to be lost. MoCap (Motion Capture) is a movement retrieval technology that articulates the interaction between basic gestures and music patterns. This research project aims at finding new opportunities and possibilities of digital media for dance analysis and notation based on the dance performance Fase - Four Movements to the ...
Hiëronymus Janssens (1624-1693), the Antwerp à la Mode Painter: Fashion and Dance in Southern Netherlandish Genre Painting, 1645-1685'. KU Leuven
Summary
This dissertation focuses on the genre paintings by the Antwerp artist Hiëronymus Janssens (1624-1693). Janssens is by far the only painter from the second half of the seventeenth century in the Southern Netherlands who specialised in the depiction of dance, corporality, music and leisure of high society. In contrast to his fellow Northern Netherlandish genre painters, there has barely been any scholarly attention paid ...
Choreografies of precariousness. A Transdisciplinary Study of the Working and Living Conditions in the Contemporary Dance Scenes of Brussels and Berlin Ghent University
CoP will investigate contemporary dancers’ socio-economical position and its influence on their production processes in Brussels and Berlin. The project will discuss to what extent one may speak of precariousness in the contemporary dance scenes of these two cities, which can be seen as creative capitals of Mid- and Western Europe.
Ich war auch dabei (I was also around). A “corporeal reconstitution” of the dance performances of Sophie Taeuber, Emmy Hennings and Suzanne Perrottet in Zurich Dada. Ghent University
Taeuber, Hennings and Perrottet were pioneers of the historical avant-garde. As members of the artistic movement of Dadaism (°Zurich, 1916) they mocked art institutions and experimented with language, logic and identity while incorporating an interdisciplinary perspective. However, they were hardly mentioned in the abundance of Dada source material such as manifestos, magazines and reviews. Their status as professional performance artists was ...
Contemporary Dance in a Contemporary Church: Choreographic Reenactment as Liturgical-Theological Practice-as-Research. University of Antwerp
Contemporary Dance in a Contemporary Church: Choreographic Reenactment as Liturgical-Theological Practice-as-Research KU Leuven
The interaction between dance and religion has become a research area of considerable growth and innovation. However, Catholic theologians do not participate in this research area, and choreographers hesitate to work with Christian rituals. Yet, during the twentieth century there have been precedents of “liturgical dance”. Especially in Belgium, liturgical dance was rooted in a fruitful collaboration between artistic modern dance and the ...
The Real Artworld? Mending the Gap between Dance Education and the Professional Field Ghent University
This project conducts pioneering research on the interplay between the labor conditions of contemporary dance artists and contemporary dance aesthetics. In the 21st century, contemporary dance in the European context is a heterogeneous artistic field that experiments with a broad range of alternative approaches to choreography. Contemporary dance artists are mostly precarious workers, whose labor is largely organized in a social, flexible, ...
Conceptualising the differing body as disability-and-possability in dance through collaborative body-centred research methodologies Ghent University
Dance has been traditionally linked to idealised bodies (beautiful, agile, malleable, …). A stream of thought and practice starting from possibility rather than lack offered by non-normative bodies is carving new paths in dance and confuses scripts that prescribe how bodies can/should move, appear, connect, be recognised as human. I study how encounters through dance affect and are affected by (the experience of) differing bodies. Central are ...