Abstract:

This phenomenological narrative explores perceptions of being in a reconsideration of audience/performer/site relationships in three technologically mediated dance performances. These are evaluated relative to an evolving concept of fine art dance performance as vehicle for shared metaphysical experience between performers and audience. The improvisational performance methodology, Sensation and Form, is discussed as an approach to the interactive capabilities of 'intelligent' spaces employing motion-sensing technology. Performers and audience engage in balancing mutual awareness in shifting sensory and perceptual conditions as expressed by the interactive environment. The nexus of artist/art object/audience is explored as a dynamic creative system, and as a means of transcendence of dualities such as artist and audience and subject and object. The act of transcendence as focused and contained in its integration with the site of performance is designated by the author as 'sacred space.' These relationships are not medium specific and transdisciplinary implications are discussed.