ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the performative and affective potentials of sounding garments/accessories—“choreosonic” wearables—as bodily extensions in interactive dance. It explores the emergence of dance through choreosonic wearable design strategies that link gestural and whole-body movement to sounding and the transceiving potentials for the dancer-wearer in the performance space. The chapter highlights how the disciplines of sound art and dance both crucially support the work that centers on the notion of wearable performance and its compositional potentials in interactive dance-theatre performance frameworks. New forms of expressivity adorn the dancer in a mode that is distributed and provocative to all creative partners involved—dancer/choreographer, designer, musician, sonic and media artist—in the sharing and entanglement of our creative processes. The interest in wearables as intermediary devices in mediatized performance has become notable in artistic explorations and research inquiry in the sonic arts and dance fields alike.
