leif ericson
«experimental dance» follows in the footsteps of john cage’s concept of «experimental music» in which actions are designed to lead to indeterminable results. in both instances content is an emergent product of form (the compositional structure).
when dance-technology practitioners describe their work as «experimental» they are aligning themselves with experimental dance. in assuming an exploratory stance (what’s there) rather than a correlatory stance (hypotheses & empiricism), dance-tech frames the the medium as the message (after marshall mcluhan).
to allow the medium to «speak for itself», dance-tech has resisted the development of formal techniques and methodologies. each practitioner begins their exploratory experimentation with a blank slate free to re-tread or break new ground as they wish.
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