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# Mini Ex5


As I am looking at my coding/writing of this web page, it is hard to imagine two more diffrent endeavours than the tech-heavy action of writing symbols on a computer screen and the instinctive and almost primal phenomenon that is dance. But I must admit that I was able to understand something from William Forsythe's text:

> Choreography and dancing are two distinct and very different practices. 

Indeed, perhaps my amateur practice of dancing lead me to start where I started. Choreography is in my view the "planning of dance" and is quite aparent when seeing a team of dancers dancing, not necesarilly in unison, but in a way that the execution of the plan somehow creates aestetic pleasure. This planning aspect is quite similar to that of web programming, where the successful execution is what creates the interface.
But I rarely (if ever) get a similar emotion when experiencing choreographed dance and loading a web page. Maybe because one execution is machinic and the other is physiological. I have tried to dance coordinatedly with other people and it is difficult. I understand tacitly how it is to learn and execute it bodily, since I have a human body. But I am not a machine nor do I understand tacitly nor fully logically the intricacies of the web.

Being able to imagine "web choreograhy" would maybe require:
- [x] bodily experience/knowledge
- [ ] machine experience/knowledge
- [ ] a "good" imagination


I found it hard to enjoy the videos of Chicau's works. Mainly because of the layer of video vs. experiencing the work firsthand. But the content also told me that it was not supposed to be enjoyed as the pleasure of a well choreographed ballet nor that of well designed web interfaces.  The confusion generated by the fast paced interaction with projected web seemed so purposefully strange that it paradoxically both was and wasn't in contrast to the dancing, since the it's choreograhy was also inherently strange in the solitude of the sole dancer. I would thus describe her pratice as creating uncanny (strange) experiences by combining visual domains that are known to the onlooker.

Visiting her website kind of gave me more a sense of her methods, since I was able to interact with the web elements. I can see the vague similarity of the bodily interaction of scrolling with dancing; the human can act and reflect – tacitly interact. Perhaps because I am more used to seeing web pages than "arty" choreography, I can appreciate the aestetics of her web designs (that are exhibitited on the webpage). Somehow I can see the "organics of the bodily world of performative dance" (if that makes sense) in her work. I am unsure how this relates to her research methods and even more how her research could be communicated.
