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This post comprises three contributions to the publication SCORES: Zwischen Dokumentation, Vermittlung und Kreation, edited by Miriam Althammer, Anja K. Arend and Anna Wieczorek.

This study on the artistic dance research project Atlas of Smooth Spaces, Notating, Communicating and Composing Spaces in Audio- Corporeal Practices comprises three parts by three authors, and shows a joint work on Dorothee Günther’s drawn exercise series from three different praxeological approaches. In part one Rose Breuss describes the project in brief, outlines its notation-theoretical background, and presents a series of notational compositions.

In part two Damián Cortés Alberti exposes praxeological procedures, using diffraction and transmediation as a research method—applied in his doctoral dance research—and its transfer to the artistic creations of the Off Verticality Dance Company.

In part three Marcela Mariana López Morales presents selected aspects of her doctoral research, which focuses on historically informed creation processes and their modes of appropriation, transformation, documentation, and re-signification in dance practices.

The article describes the artistic research project “Atlas of Smooth Spaces – Notational Practices of audio-corporeal arts,” funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF from 2021 to 2024. The project is a collaboration between the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and other institutions. It explores the space created by dancers and choreographers, focusing on their spatial practices and choreographic spatial concepts.

The research involves a group of professional dancers, choreographers, and musicians, as well as a mathematician. They investigate how dancers and choreographers suspend spatial constraints and create new, virtual, visionary spaces. The research group presented their studies and artistic performances at the Rosenberg Dance Research Festival in October 2022 at the Anton Bruckner Private University. The festival provided a platform for the research practices of dancers and choreographers, with an international group of dancers presenting and discussing their work.Other activities took place in collaboration with the dance company Choreographia[Inter]Austriaca, Consort of Spectacle, Performance, Dance, and with the Chorus Sine Nomine. Choreographia[Inter]Austriaca, a collective of dancers and choreographers, focuses on incorporating neglected, migrant-influenced archival and notation material into their choreographic processes. They presented a Vienna premiere on November 1, 2022, at brick-5, featuring choreographies developed experimentally within the “Atlas of Smooth Spaces” research project.