Between minds and bodies: Some insights about creativity from dance improvisation
dc.contributor.author | Łucznik, Klara | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-03T12:51:43Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-12-01 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1477-965X | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1758-9533 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/4572 | |
dc.description.abstract |
Observing dance improvisation provides a unique opportunity to understand how people collaborate together while creating. It is an opportunity to consider how new ideas appear, not simply from the internal processes of a single creator but rather from the interactions between the minds, bodies and the environment acting on and between a group of improvising dancers. Improvisational scores served in this study as a laboratory into group creativity. Using a video-stimulated recall method, which asks dancers to reflect upon their own processes just after completing the score, I explored the interdependency between meta-cognitive strategies such as imagery and sense awareness, group processes, the role of others in one’s own creative processes, and interactions between bodies and with the environment. As a result I describe how dancers build together a common improvisational space, which allows them to co-create and share their ideas mostly in non-verbal, non-propositional ways. I discuss the co-agency of such a process, showing that intentionality is distributed between dancers at each moment of improvisation and that they are mainly focused on supporting the ideas of others. I also discuss the medium of the body and the embodied response as central to dance improvisation practice. | |
dc.format.extent | 301-308 | |
dc.language | en | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Intellect | |
dc.title | Between minds and bodies: Some insights about creativity from dance improvisation | |
dc.type | journal-article | |
dc.type | Conference Proceeding | |
plymouth.issue | 3 | |
plymouth.volume | 13 | |
plymouth.publication-status | Published | |
plymouth.journal | Technoetic Arts | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1386/tear.13.3.301_1 | |
plymouth.organisational-group | /Plymouth | |
plymouth.organisational-group | /Plymouth/Faculty of Science and Engineering | |
plymouth.organisational-group | /Plymouth/Users by role | |
plymouth.organisational-group | /Plymouth/Users by role/Academics | |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2015-11-05 | |
dc.rights.embargodate | 2016-12-1 | |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1758-9533 | |
dc.rights.embargoperiod | 12 months | |
rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.1386/tear.13.3.301_1 | |
rioxxterms.licenseref.uri | http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/under-embargo-all-rights-reserved | |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2015-12-01 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review |