Video Annotation for Dance and Performance - Attention, Thinking, and Memory

This book explores video annotation as a reflective, analytic, organisational, and publishing tool for performance scholarship. On the understanding that we differentiate ourselves through the adoption of technology, annotation is introduced as a manual practice of seeing and decision-making that not only enriches or supplements time-based media but develops the analytic capacity and deep attention of human (rather than computational) subjects. This is an important book for students and scholars in dance, performance studies, media studies, and anyone working with video as a research tool.

List of contents

Chapter 01: Introduction.- Chapter 02: Mediating experience.- Chapter 03: Annotation as thinking and memory.- Chapter 04: A context for the emergence of video annotation in dance.- Chapter 05: User-generated annotations.- Chapter 06: Media objects: transmitting dance.- Chapter 07: Embracing new representational approaches: closing thoughts.

About the author

Rebecca Stancliffe is a Research Fellow and Lecturer at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, UK.

Summary

This book explores video annotation as a reflective, analytic, organisational, and publishing tool for performance scholarship. On the understanding that we differentiate ourselves through the adoption of technology, annotation is introduced as a manual practice of seeing and decision-making that not only enriches or supplements time-based media but develops the analytic capacity and deep attention of human (rather than computational) subjects. This is an important book for students and scholars in dance, performance studies, media studies, and anyone working with video as a research tool.

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca Stancliffe
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.06.2025
• EAN: 9783031926396
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3192639-6
• No. of pages: 237
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 17 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 425 g
• Illustrations: XVII, 237 p. 9 illus., 8 illus. in color.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Darstellende Künste, Dance, Computer-Anwendungen in Kunst und Geisteswissenschaften, Notation, documentation, Digital Humanities, Theatre and Performance Arts, Grammatisation, Dance Analysis, Video Annotation, Video Literacy