Movement for actors

Access to new technologies has often been difficult and inadequate for the needs of contemporary choreographers during the recent history of dance in Brazil.  However, digital inclusion is now a government objective while economic and educational inclusion is still a dream.  It is argued that technology might now have an important role in the artistic work of choreographers, since it is becoming gradually more accessible.  The objective of this research is to develop ways to assist choreographers that are willing to use computers within their choreographic processes but find it difficult because of the lack of educational or financial support.

To assess the tasks a computer application can accomplish within choreographic processes in Brazil, four works were used in this research.  An extended definition of Distributed Choreography, developed from Distributed Cognition and Group Creativity approaches, was the framework employed to analyse the use of computer-based artefacts within dance creation.  This theoretical framework supported the generation of a new concept: the Choreographic Planning Environment (CPE).  This seeks to provide parameters for the creation and use of computer-based artefacts to support dance creation.

Based on these parameters, a series of practical proposals has been created and evaluated exploring the use or adaptation of existing software packages, and also the design and implementation from scratch of a new program.  These proposals enable the choreographer to sketch aspects of choreographic design and organise material for rehearsals using a standard computer.  All proposals are in the early stages of development and are included in a companion CD (Choreographing With Your Computer) together with tutorials and a multimedia database containing part of the material collected for this research.

Buildings may be subjected to natural hazards such as earthquakes, winds and fires during their long-term
use. Fire is a very common hazard and could be monitored and prevented using Wireless sensor and actor
networks (WSANs). WSANs refer to a group of sensors and actors linked by wireless medium to perform
distributed sensing and actuation tasks. In such a network, sensors gather information about the physical
world, while actors take decisions and then perform appropriate actions upon the environment, which
allows remote, automated interaction with the environment. In this paper , a routing algorithm for fire
monitoring and extinguishing(FMEA) is proposed that makes use of the threshold sensing for monitoring
and extinguishing fire. Initially when fire is detected sensors raise alarms so that lives could be saved with
no waste in time .Once the temperature exceeds a certain threshold then extinguishing takes place. The
sensing environment consists of many Monitoring Nodes that sense fire and report the data to the Cluster
Head. The Cluster Head directs the Actors to extinguish the fire before sending the data to the Base
Station.

Synthesizing the pedagogy of acting with new findings in Neuroscience and archetypal understandings of human ways of learning and seeing. This book contains practical exercises for directors, actors, and teachers to use combining these three elements.

Having studied body movement analysis in Paris 8 I'm applying it to analyze documentaries about Pierre Gagnaire and Michel Bras chefs to understand relationships between their movements and some of the specificities of their creativity in the  kitchen.