The impact of this new promotional policy on Digital Dancing was the transformation of the artistic process into a sort of theatre for interested visitors. The tensions of creation in the marketplace are not new to the art world of the 90's. Dancers working with computers know that mapping is not the old explorers' dream of discovering a terra incognito. We do not confront a new territory,but dance through a transformation of existing material realities and relations. Once initial squeamishness is overcome, dancers make the best cyborgs.
Dancers know that the borders of the body are mutable, porous.
When dancers engage with systems like motion capture they crave close contact with the abstracted digital data, not to annul it, but to share contrasting spaces and physicalities. She wanted to escape from the stereotypical passivity of the contemporary dancer's role and saw how this work offered this potential if dancers were trusted to engage more fully. Allowing dancers to improvise and shape the process involves tremendous trust on the part of the choreographer and the dancers themselves. The photographic images reproduced from Digital Dancing focus on the human body in fluid engagement with technology. The dance of the digital and the analogue occurred on many levels throughout Digital Dancing .