Transmitting dance: the transvangarde of movement

Is there a universal language of dance constrained by biology, or do different cultures reinvent ritual movements independently?

If one cannot tell the dancer from the dance, how can dance be recorded? Each dance tradition has at least one unique form of notation, but these have never been an artform in themselves. Can video-dance and new technology break this tradition? Can dead dance forms be resurrected from written records or is cultural salvage impossible? And is there a universal language of dance constrained by biology, or do different cultures reinvent ritual movements independently?

Speakers/movers/shakers:
Gill Clarke, Head of Performance Studies at Laban
Vena Ramphal, Dancer and choreographer, trained in Bharat Natyam
Rosemary Brandt, lecturer in Choreology at London Contemporary Dance School and at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Gerard Houghton, writer, historian, documenting sacred tantric dance of monasteries in Ladakh and Bhutan.

Chair and co-curator:
Daniel Glaser, UCL neurobiologist, former ICA scientist in residence
Co-curator:
Kathelin Gray, Artistic Director, Theatre of All Possibilities

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