Movement, Actions and Bodies: Capturing the hidden languages of Dance

Katerina El Raheb, Dancer, Computer Scientist and Asst. Professor for Performing and Digital Arts, University of the Peloponnese (GR/EG)

This lecture series investigates questions of immersion from the perspectives of the performing arts including dance, theater and even real time animation. Our exciting list of five guest lecturers includes a world renowned choreographer and collaborating dance artist working with real time motion capture, the head of the theater program at the ZHdK and an expert in contemporary performance and digitality, a journalist and long-time editor of tanz, the most important dance magazine in the German speaking world, the head of the Ars Electronica animation jury and an Egyptian born, Greek computer scientist and dancer working on digital performance in Virtual Reality.