Notes
1 Suna no Onna, dance environment created by Dans Sans Joux, Laban Centre, 8 December 2007, directed by Johannes Birringer, performed by Katsura Isobe, Helenna Ren and Olu Taiwo, fashion design by Michèle Danjoux, music by Oded Ben-Tal, sensor programmingby Paul Verity Smith, digital animations by Doros Polydorou and Maria Wiener, motion graphics by Jonathan Hamilton, scenography by Hsueh-Pei Wang.
2 For a bold reinterpretation of Appia's design visions (originally created for Dalcroze's eurhythmic dances), see Magruder (Citation2007: 100–14). Japanese dancer Yukito Obara's avatar ('Gekitora’) performed a ‘wind dance’ inside Magruder's digital ‘Rhythmic Spaces’ in Second Life during the CYNETart_07encounter festival (22:45 GMT, 17 November 2007). It was the world premiere of a dance that defies conventional description but forges unexpected links between Kleist's theory of the marionette and the kind of contemporary 3D environments for moving avatars explored, for example, in igloo's Swan Quake mod or their earlier Summerbranch.
3 For a sustained interrogation of interactivity in performance and installation art, and a longer conversation with Downie and Kaiser about ‘thinking images’, see Birringer (Citation2008).