Education/ Piecemaker

Motion Bank Education Research

in Phase One was undertaken with teaching staff from the two Education Partner institutions cooperating with an International Education Workgroup (see list below).

Biannual meetings of the Workgroup were organised since Autumn 2010 in Frankfurt and other locations. In the links to the right (or below) and in the Documentation pages are brief reports on these meetings which were frequently organised to take place alongside another event.

Piecemaker

for use in dance creation & education

Piecemaker is a software that assists in notating and scoring video recordings of dance and sharing this information with others. It was initiated as a research project by The Forsythe Company member David Kern to support the organisation and recall of materials created in the rehearsal studio.

In the context of the Motion Bank research project, Piecemaker has been reprogrammed for use in the development of the on-line digital scores and as a standalone tool for use in the studio by those working in dance creation and education. Now titled PM2GO (Piecemaker2GO) a free beta version can be downloaded along with instructions here.

Piecemaker Team (Hochschule Darmstadt): Peter Göbel, Matthias Kadenbach, Julian Klotz, Andrea Krajewski, Garrit Schaap, Alexander Stefas, Arnd Steinmetz, Martin Streit and Tsune Tanaka.