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Title
Interactive Tango Milonga: An Interactive Dance System for Argentine Tango Social Dance
Description
When dancers are granted agency over music, as in interactive dance systems, the actors are most often concerned with the problem of creating a staged performance for an audience. However, as is reflected by the above quote, the practice of Argentine tango social dance is most concerned with participants internal experience and their relationship to the broader tango community. In this dissertation I explore creative approaches to enrich the sense of connection, that is, the experience of oneness with a partner and complete immersion in music and dance for Argentine tango dancers by providing agency over musical activities through the use of interactive technology. Specifically, I create an interactive dance system that allows tango dancers to affect and create music via their movements in the context of social dance. The motivations for this work are multifold: 1) to intensify embodied experience of the interplay between dance and music, individual and partner, couple and community, 2) to create shared experience of the conventions of tango dance, and 3) to innovate Argentine tango social dance practice for the purposes of education and increasing musicality in dancers.
Date Created
2017
Contributors
- Brown, Courtney Douglass (Author)
- Paine, Garth (Thesis advisor)
- Feisst, Sabine (Committee member)
- Turaga, Pavan (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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Extent
284 pages
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
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Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.44206
Level of coding
minimal
Note
Doctoral Dissertation Music 2017
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- 2017-06-01 02:04:00
System Modified
- 2021-08-26 09:47:01
- 3 years 1 month ago
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