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Dancing with Myself
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This chapter acts as a video game battle or interaction between the two authors. It discusses how dance video games construct corporeality. It provides an overview of Microsoft Xbox 360Dance Central’srelationship to choreography, choreographers, and dance analysis. It also theorizes how bodies and corporeality function in a virtual world. Finally, the chapter considers how avatar bodies provide new ways of thinking about the relationship between technology and the body.
Title: Dancing with Myself
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This chapter acts as a video game battle or interaction between the two authors.
It discusses how dance video games construct corporeality.
It provides an overview of Microsoft Xbox 360Dance Central’srelationship to choreography, choreographers, and dance analysis.
It also theorizes how bodies and corporeality function in a virtual world.
Finally, the chapter considers how avatar bodies provide new ways of thinking about the relationship between technology and the body.
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