Decentering the dancing text: from dance intertext to hypertext

  • Authors:

  • Timothy Miles-Board; Deveril;Janet Lansdale;Leslie Carr;Wendy Hall

  • Affiliations:

  • University of Southampton, Southampton, UK;University of Surrey, Guildford, UK;University of Surrey, Guildford, UK;University of Southampton, Southampton, UK;University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper explains and draws together two projects from different disciplines: dance studies and hypertext writing. Each project sets out to examine the processes and practices of hypertextuality, and to develop new ways of writing using electronic technology and the Internet. The dance studies project seeks to link the critical theory of intertextuality (as a means of dance interpretation) with the theoretical and practical concerns of hypertextuality. It hopes to show a convergence of the two into a working system for analysing dance in a network of people, institutions and information. The Associative Writing Framework (AWF) project seeks to explore how writers could best be supported in representing and exploring hypertextuality in a Web environment, and in producing new hypertexts which integrate or "glue together" existing Web resources (ideas, concepts, data, descriptions, experiences, claims, theories, suggestions, reports, etc.). Following the combining of the two projects we report on some initial evaluation of the AWF system by dance experts, and discuss where the relationship might lead and potential future outcomes of the collaboration.