Title: Looking for the linguistic knowledge behind the curtains of contemporary dance: the case of Rui Horta's creative process

Authors: Carla Montez Fernandes, Rute Costa

Addresses: Centro de Linguística da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (CLUNL), Linguistics Centre of the New University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal. ' Centro de Linguística da Universidade Nova de Lisboa (CLUNL), Linguistics Centre of the New University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

Abstract: This paper is composed of two main parts: the first one consisting of theoretical reflections both on the implicit knowledge we believe is contained in the making-of processes of contemporary dance performances and on the relations between concepts and their corresponding terms; the second one describing a practice-oriented case study, based on original video recordings of the creation and rehearsal process of a dance piece (SetUp) by contemporary choreographer Rui Horta. The case study is framed by the presently running research project A Transmedia Knowledge Base for contemporary dance (TKB), which is also briefly presented.

Keywords: knowledge bases; multimodal corpora; cognition; linguistic knowledge; Rui Horta; creativity; contemporary dance.

DOI: 10.1504/IJART.2010.032566

International Journal of Arts and Technology, 2010 Vol.3 No.2/3, pp.235 - 250

Published online: 07 Apr 2010 *

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