Natasha Stott
| Post Nominals | MA, Post-Grad Dip, BA (Hons) |
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| Biography | I am writing up my PaR Ph.D. thesis, exploring the conversation between the moving body and projected image, through improvisation. Freelance choreographer and visualist, Arts Coordinator & Facilitator at Z-arts, on the board of trustees for Touchdown Dance and I also tutor of Design for Dialogic Dance at the China Academy of Arts in Shanghai & Salford University. My work with both institutions was exhibited at Future Lab, West Bund – China My practice is develops and experiments in intermedial, immersive and interactive environments through play expanding spaces into XR (Extended Reality) encompassing a range of immersive technologies beyond Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed Reality (MR) and other interactive technologies. My research aims to develop strategies to prompt and facilitate conversational performance-play between the moving body and projected image. My exploration has developed over three split waves. These waves took place initially as studio practice, an immersive interactive and intermedial live workshop involving image projection and physical bodies, with reflection and refining into each following wave in an iterative cycle. The project is informed by moment-to-moment dialogic interplay between the performer-participant and visualist. Working and developing processes of connectivity between the movement practitioner and the visualist is where my explorations reside, my research could be seen in the heritage of dance practice and they it is informed by theories of improvisation and becoming. Connectivity was developed between the artists and the art forms to encourage creative pathways this was introduced through my working models of the Suggestive Spectrum, Shifting Shape System and Choice Method. My findings developed concepts by which to view my study and these were: engagement experience, becoming, fluid exchange, relived, reimagined, response and remembering, exchange & building semiotics. Last year my work was shown as best practice by the Dean of Media & Performance at Salford University to be presented at Nanjing University, China. |
| Research Interests | Media & performance, XR environments, performance art, new technologies |