@misc{419528a5fe0a4656903f9f4ed54648a0,
title = "Big",
abstract = "This work entitled 'Big' represents an early train of thought within the greater concept of hyperchoreography. It offers the chance to explore a body of edited material whilst creating a multi-screen video-dance work.",
author = "Simon Fildes and Katrina McPherson and {Ricochet Dance Company} and Crystal Pite",
note = "In 2001 McPherson and Fildes created and defined the term {\textquoteleft}Hyperchoreography{\textquoteright}, a concept exploring new paradigms in interactive dance for the screen. Using digital hypermedia, hyperchoreography is a non-linear dance 'space' existing in an interactive and/or networked medium. The dance can be sequentially altered by user interaction, navigating through linked moving images. The elements are put in place by the creators, but the shape of the work is decided by the user at the moment of interaction. Because of their non-narrative and non-literal nature, Fildes and McPherson acknowledge the final edit of their video dance works are really only one ending in a range of possibilities. {\textquoteleft}Hyperchoreography{\textquoteright} was born out of a desire to expose more of that process to an audience and is based on the model of {\textquoteleft}hypertext{\textquoteright} and explores the parallels as defined by Ted Nelson. In the artists{\textquoteright} exploration of this approach to working with choreographic material on video they have asked what different navigational interfaces can be used to explore such fragmented material? {\textquoteleft}Big{\textquoteright} features a horizontal strip of 4 screens of twenty loops of video dance recorded with Ricochet Dance Company. Users can create unison or counterpoint dances of varying degrees of visual and aural complexity and rhythm. Subsequent works produced 'The Truth:The Truth' and 'Ardnamurchan Zillij' used different approaches. The former allows recording of parallel sequences and the latter uses spatial montage to create a video mosaic. A new work {\textquoteleft}Locus, tangent, return{\textquoteright} explores the nature of collaborative editing and transcluded composition. Supported by several funding bodies, www.hyperchoreography.org has been receiving on average 12,000 visitors per year, has been cited in academic papers and dissertations and reviewed in print and web articles. ",
year = "2002",
language = "English",
}