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Moving outside the Box, an extended view on technology in contemporary dance practice puts an emphasis on the various changes dance has undergone in the past century through the influence of technology. This master thesis contains two parts: a theoretical and a practical one. The historiographical research focuses on the development of contemporary dance and the societal changes which contributed to the rise of technology and its convergence with the dancing body. From the Modernist era dancers have been developing an interest for the implementation of new technologies, hence creating the opportunity to explore and transgress the boundaries of movement, space and the actual body. These practices resulted in critical and creative reflections stimulating postmodern choreographers to deconstruct the basic conventions of dance: on the one hand the representation of the body, on the other hand the categories of space. In contemporary dance practices the emerging technologies explore and expand the interaction of movement and moving images, illustrated through the practical research and analysis of two dance performances. In Biped (1999), a dance performance created by Merce Cunningham and two multimedia artists, Shelley Eshkar and Paul Kaiser, the effects of motion capturing result in the simultaneous staging of live and virtual dancers. The approach enables the audience to achieve an immersive experience and represents a more conceptual approach of the body. The Fault Lines (2010), a dance performance created by Meg Stuart, Philipp Gehmacher and Vladimir Miller is an example of a different use of time-based relations, spatial contexts and body representations, which connects the live performance to live video in order to intensify the experience and the production of meaning for the audience. The analysis of both performances has been based on the use of video recordings, theoretical and critical literature, as well as interviews with key players in the field of danc

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This research project proposes a cross analysis of reality TV and documentary genres. Its goal is to establish a working definition of each genre and contrast the conventions within each form. It does so through case studies of Catfish, a documentary from 2010 and Catfish TV, a reality TV show loosely based on the same premise as the documentary and starring the same creator/narrator. Classification systems and conventions within each genre will be explored in order to engage in a cross genre analysis. Texts from popular culture will be analysed to juxtapose intentionality of the cultural creators with audience perception and academic theory. This comparison will be performed through a lens of fidelity and specificity in order to determine if deviations in form are genre specific or based on an underlying ideological premise. PLEASE NOTE: My degree is Master of Cultural Studies but an error in the drop down box is not allowing me to choose this option.