Mobile social choreographies: Choreographic insight as a basis for artistic research into mobile technologies

ABSTRACTCreative use of networked wireless communications devices (such as mobile phones) contributes to a vibrant strand of media art called ‘locative media’, and has captured the imaginations of geographers, media artists, architects, engineers and philosophers. Now it is time for dancers and choreographers to contribute to the critical and creative activity around corporeality, expression and mobile technologies in social contexts. This article proposes an emergent area of research in combining dance and mobile technologies called ‘social choreographies’, and considers artistic research methodologies relevant to this newly framed domain that are rooted in improvisatory studio practices and drawing a choreographic sensibility into urban environments.