My First Post back, before starting Module 3!

Hi to all of you! I hope you had an amazing summer and you are ready and fresh to start this new term like I am. Before we will start officially next Monday the Module 3 of the BA (Hons) in Professional Practice at the Middlesex University, I would like to update you a bit of what I have been doing all of these months without any posting at the BAPP blog.

Photo Exhibition De Zaragoza al Mundo

After I finished the Module 2 in May, I continued the season at the Latvian National Ballet in Riga, until it finished early June. Parallel to it I carried on with my second Solo Project Fusion Tour 2017, until it has just finished  yesterday with the publication in my Official Social Media of my Promotional Video 2017 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSON8BD4Blc). During all of these months with this tour, I did several performances and events in Latvia and Estonia as well as a tour in several cities of Spain with the Photo Exhibition I premiered last April, De Zaragoza al Mundo (Photo above). You can see more about this project at my Facebook Page (https://www.facebook.com/GonzaloPreciadoAzanza.page/) as well as all my other social media.

International Dance Contemporary Festival Trayectos

Meanwhile I was doing my solo tour, I continued to think about my BAPP and the Professional Inquiry I was about to start in September, therefore I continued my research within my resources, I attend a few events and shows in my hometown that were going to be relevant for my research such as International Dance Contemporary Festival Trayectos (Photo above), and I even got my first interview for my Inquiry there, that I will talk about it more next week. And on top of all of that, of course I got a few weeks of holidays around my country, Spain.

See you next week in my first post of Module 3 and don´t forget to keep following the blog and my Google + Community for the updates about my research!

Gonzalo

BAPP TASK 6c: Award Specialism Title

The task 6c of the Module 2 of the BA (Hons) in Professional Practice at the Middlesex University consists of based on your questions, and previous reflections, identify and propose your award title, and provide a written rationale for it posting it on my blog. The award title should reflect your knowledge and expertise and you should think carefully about it in relation to your future career development

I would like to propose that my award specialism title will be: How the new technologies are influencing the mental imaginery, aesthetics and choreographic process in Professional Dance in the 21^st Century?

My rationale will be as follows:

- I have been always fascinated with the relationship between Art-Science, therefore when I started to plan my inquiry, I knew that I wanted to develop further my knowledge of it, Previously I had a background of the work of British choreographer Wayne McGregor studying how he has introduced the new technologies into his choreographic process, therefore I took it as the starting point for this new piece of research.

After researching several resources of my topic, reading about the work of other choreographers that had used novel methods and ideas for their choreographic process, also getting to know the impact of the scientific breakthroughs,  discoveries, and inventions in other art forms and how art-science cooperate together to develop the final piece of art, as well analysing and understanding my own creativity process, I have chosen to focus on the impact of new technologies on the Professional Dance. My intention is to discover what is the impact of the influence of science, especially the new technologies in the creation of new pieces of dance and and how are developping the mental imaginery, aesthetics and choreographic process during this 21^st century.

This inquiry will be of direct value to my professional practice as it anticipates what I wish to pursue for my future career in dance research and management. It will give me and excellent insight into this specialised area of research whilst at the same time, giving me the opportunity to positively shape the future of my own choreographic process by offering me greater knowledge of how to introduce further the new technologies into them.

Don´t forget to keep following the blog and my Google + Community for the updates about my research!

Gonzalo

BAPP TASK 4D: Identifying Literature related with my Inquiry Part 1

The task 4d of the Module 2 of the BA (Hons) in Professional Practice at the Middlesex University consisted of identifying three important pieces of literature related with my inquiry/topic interests.

After finding my resources that I will be using for my inquiry, I decided to conduct a brief review (reading them and analysing) of these three pieces of literature, 2 books and 1 doctoral thesis, thorough the module:

Tornero Lorenzo, Paz (2013) Tecnologías de la Creatividad: Conexiones entre Arte y Ciencia en la Contemporaneidad, Madrid

Miller, Arthur I. (1996) Insights of Genius: Imagery and Creativity in Science and Art, Gottigen, Copernicus

Wilson, Stephen (2010) Art + Science Now: How scientific research and technological innovation are becoming key to 21st-century aesthetics, New York, Thames & Hudson

Screenshot of the doctoral thesis, Tecnologías de la Creatividad: Conexiones entre Arte y Ciencia en la Contemporaneidad

Therefore, in this Part 1 I will analyse my first important piece of literature, the doctoral

Thesis. During this module I have been searching and searching the resources that will be the background base of my research, prior starting my interviews to key international professionals in June. I found this work: Tecnologías de la Creatividad: Conexiones entre Arte y Ciencia en la Contemporaneidad (2013) by Paz Tornero at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid through the Library of the University of Zaragoza early in March. And after looking a bit into it I realised, it will be a fantastic way to start to introduce myself into all the previous work of the Art & Science relationship.

Screenshot of one suggestive image by the Harvard Idea Translation Lab at the the doctoral thesis, Tecnologías de la Creatividad: Conexiones entre Arte y Ciencia en la Contemporaneidad about Creativity

After I have read through all this thesis doctoral, I am fascinated how much more knowledge there is my research field that I had no idea of it before. For me it was specially, interesting how many it has been cited my next piece of literature, Art + Science Now by Stephen Wilson, therefore it will be very important to keep deepening in my field to get a wider background knowledge of it. Also it was very interesting to see how dance and the new technological developments have influenced several world class choreographers such as Merce Cunningham or Maurice Bejart. This book it is divided into 3 parts to explore further the field, ranging from a historical view of this concept or how artist have been working in several programmes in several scientific labs, as well as the different innovations and research that are being carried nowadays.

Reading this book has been an astonishing journey to get myself inside what my Professional Inquiry will be discussing and don´t forget to keep following the blog and my Google + Community for the updates about my research!

Gonzalo