Introduction. Dance research and transmedia practices

Contemporary dance is a field full of interpretative possibilities for a Semiotics interested in dynamic and performance open texts connected to theatre practice and/or multimedia. If dance manifests itself as a choreographic discourse/text formed through a creative process then, in order to investigate expression and contents in their narrative or plastic nature, it will be appropriate to take into consideration a series of issues related to the dimension of the senses, but also the figurative and the interpretative dimensions, from the point of view of dance main semiotic actors (dancer, choreographer, audience). Dance as a process, dance as discourse, text analysis, notation, technology, translation, arts, body, are therefore only some of the key words used in this monographic issue, together with the notions of performance - intended both as discourse and process - in the multiple semantic possibilities of a word in which spectacular conceptions and more semiotic ones, although overlapping, are all predominantly considered in virtue of live execution.