OPEN SOURCE DANCE:

"Contemporary Dance [Modern/Western Movement Vocabulary], in it’s short 100 year history has served as a cradle for innovation and experimentation in every format of it's multidisciplinary identity. From ground breaking explorations into the kinesthetic understanding of the human body to serving as a center for cross disciplinary, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary and interactive investigations involving all artistic disciplines and one only needs to become familiar with this rich history to comprehend its significance and impact on past and current trends in multidisclipinary art. The dancer who comes of age in this new century, a time where "new media" plays a significant role in not only the dissemination and assimilation of information, but also in the evolution of multidisclplinary art in mainstream pop culture, is that much better prepared, sooner than later, to explore further possibilities in dance's identity and in turn its "new identity" in 21st century art. However, career path choices in dance have remained almost stagnant in the past twenty five years and are now found to be greatly limiting to the development of this new identity in dance. Time is of essence,   hence, another environment is needed........."

The Open Source Dance [OSD] methodology is an outcome from the research "Contemporary Dance [Modern/Western Movement Vocabulary]: The catalyst for deviation and extension in Post Structural Sound, Choreoperiodicity, Interdependency, Optimum Creative Dialog and the Dunnist Period in Music"- by Manjunan Gnanaratnam. Composer, Barker Center for Dance, Dept. of Theater Arts and Dance, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. USA. © 2004

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