Dance and Digital
Lauren has always been interested in digital technology. In 2009, she made a site specific work with live camera feeds and screens. She was influenced by Dr Pauline Brooks' practice at Liverpool John Moores University and became interested in the potential for telematic learning, co- curation and engaged with students from Temple University, USA whilst studying her dance degree in Liverpool. www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/staff-profiles/faculty-of-health/sport-studies-leisure-and-nutrition/pauline-brooks
Since then Lauren has enjoyed creating and participating in screen dance and music videos as a performer and dance film maker. As a performer, in Jo Ashbridge's work, for Turn Festival in The Greenroom, Lauren was introduced to Isadora software and interactivity with tech in performance.
Lauren has been curious about the role of technology in creative processes ever since. It led to many interesting conversations with artists, stakeholders and venues all looking at how they might include 'digital' in their work. I think it's fair to say that digital shows potential to enhance and reimagine artistic processes, it can do wonders for democracy, access, inclusion, authenticity and diversity. It does however require the conditions for FLOW, patience and open minded, and flexible approaches to creativity. In such a short space of time, I have a very long list of so many questions to present to young people, organisations, stakeholders, artists, digital tech wizards and novices, friends, family all around the term 'digital' and what it means to them? To find out what they are trying to do, and look at it through different lenses, and ways of expression. I make multi- disciplinary work, with others.
I honestly believe that my relationship with dance and tech are equal. As a millennial artist, I have grown up, exploring both in simple and digestible ways. I did not have access to fancy tech, but it has always enhanced my experiences in one way or another. I am still old fashioned, I love 8 hour rehearsals where I don't look at my phone once, I love going to dance classes without the sea of phones at the front going out to an extended audience beyond the studio, I love going to a theatre or getting lost in a book. That being said, I am becoming more accepting of the world that we live in, and even more excited by imagined futures, and alternative futures. Exploring the human/ digital interface and imagining place based cultural experiences has sparked something within me, and a call to create.
We are looking to work in partnership with technology providers, tourism industry stakeholders with an interest in creating social change. We are interested in how the physical and virtual can meet. How dance and movement and technologies or digital elements can create landscapes that children, young people, and their families love to interact with.
We want to seek out the conditions and tools for collaboration to produce memorable visitor experiences. We are particularly interested in developing relationships with cultural organisations, that have ambitions to transform destinations.
If you are interested in engaging in dialogues around bold ideas to shape cities and towns using dance and digital, please email Lauren Tucker- tuckshopdancetheatre@gmail.com
Since then Lauren has enjoyed creating and participating in screen dance and music videos as a performer and dance film maker. As a performer, in Jo Ashbridge's work, for Turn Festival in The Greenroom, Lauren was introduced to Isadora software and interactivity with tech in performance.
Lauren has been curious about the role of technology in creative processes ever since. It led to many interesting conversations with artists, stakeholders and venues all looking at how they might include 'digital' in their work. I think it's fair to say that digital shows potential to enhance and reimagine artistic processes, it can do wonders for democracy, access, inclusion, authenticity and diversity. It does however require the conditions for FLOW, patience and open minded, and flexible approaches to creativity. In such a short space of time, I have a very long list of so many questions to present to young people, organisations, stakeholders, artists, digital tech wizards and novices, friends, family all around the term 'digital' and what it means to them? To find out what they are trying to do, and look at it through different lenses, and ways of expression. I make multi- disciplinary work, with others.
I honestly believe that my relationship with dance and tech are equal. As a millennial artist, I have grown up, exploring both in simple and digestible ways. I did not have access to fancy tech, but it has always enhanced my experiences in one way or another. I am still old fashioned, I love 8 hour rehearsals where I don't look at my phone once, I love going to dance classes without the sea of phones at the front going out to an extended audience beyond the studio, I love going to a theatre or getting lost in a book. That being said, I am becoming more accepting of the world that we live in, and even more excited by imagined futures, and alternative futures. Exploring the human/ digital interface and imagining place based cultural experiences has sparked something within me, and a call to create.
We are looking to work in partnership with technology providers, tourism industry stakeholders with an interest in creating social change. We are interested in how the physical and virtual can meet. How dance and movement and technologies or digital elements can create landscapes that children, young people, and their families love to interact with.
We want to seek out the conditions and tools for collaboration to produce memorable visitor experiences. We are particularly interested in developing relationships with cultural organisations, that have ambitions to transform destinations.
If you are interested in engaging in dialogues around bold ideas to shape cities and towns using dance and digital, please email Lauren Tucker- tuckshopdancetheatre@gmail.com
As Sherestova and Jenkins conclude: “for this youth, cultural is the gateway into the political. They are seeking political change by any media necessary”.
By any media necessary: the new youth activism, Connected Youth and Digital Futures, by Jenkins Henry, Shresthova Sangita, Gamber-Thompson Liana, Kligler-Vilenchik Neta, Zimmerman Arely, New York, New York University Press, 2016, 347 pp., ISBN: 978-1479899982
By any media necessary: the new youth activism, Connected Youth and Digital Futures, by Jenkins Henry, Shresthova Sangita, Gamber-Thompson Liana, Kligler-Vilenchik Neta, Zimmerman Arely, New York, New York University Press, 2016, 347 pp., ISBN: 978-1479899982