Performance Generating Systems in Dance : Dramaturgy, Psychology, and Performativity / / Pil Hansen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910765288403321
• Autore: Hansen Pil <1974->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bristol, England : , : Intellect Ltd, , [2022]; ©2022
• ISBN: 1-78938-641-1; 1-78938-642-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (170 pages)
• Disciplina: 792.8019
• Soggetti: Dance - Psychological aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Performance Generating Systems in Dance -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgement -- List of Figures -- 1. Introduction: Performance Generating Systems in Dance -- Conceptualizing and researching performance generating systems -- Three analytical and dramaturgical frameworks in application -- Dramaturgy -- Psychology -- Performativity -- PART ONE: DRAMATURGY -- 2. The Dramaturgical Agency of Performance Generating Systems -- Developments in dramaturgical agency -- Departures from choreography -- Differences from improvisation -- Concepts of memory at work -- Memory and agency in performance generating systems -- 3. Analyzing and Notating Performance Generating Dramaturgies as Dynamical Systems -- Notation challenges -- Dynamical Systems Theory -- DST-based tools of analysis and notation -- 4. Recycled Choreographic Memory in relay: Henderson -- Futuring memory -- The dynamics of futuring memory -- Ethics of affecting memory -- PART TWO: PSYCHOLOGY -- 5. The Cognitive Demands and Learning Effects of Performance Generating Systems -- The emergence of dance psychology -- Notes on methodology -- An earned presence -- Kinaesthetic perception and perceptual integration -- Recalling and perceiving through memory -- Constraints and distributed, extended cognition -- Implicit and explicit learning -- Disrupting and manipulating implicit processes -- Unlearning and recalibrating perception -- 6. Learning in Whole in the ; Head: Forsythe -- Improvisation Technologies: imaging movement modalities -- Building an ensemble: collective memory and skill development -- Opening the near closed 'soft clock' -- Generating components within narrow boundaries -- Self-organizing dynamics and the attractor of emergent performer agency -- Closing the near open 'supernova' -- Expanded generating components and exploded boundaries.; The self-organizing attractor of ensemble memory and agency -- Learning WitH an ensemble -- 7. Unlearning in I'll Crane for You: Hay through House -- Testing the boundaries of performance generating systems with Hay through House -- Generating components -- Practice -- Adapting performer -- Score -- Agreement -- Transferability -- Learning to unlearn -- PART THREE: PERFORMATIVITY -- 8. Affecting the (Im)possibility of Change: Performativity and Trauma -- Moving from dramaturgy and psychology through performativity -- Performativity: discursive -- Performativity: posthuman -- Potential of change in performance generating systems: phase transitions -- (Un)changeable conditions: trauma -- Performative Agency -- 9. Transition from Dissociation to Intimacy in Crave: Kaeja -- Craving touch: sourcing dissociation -- Creating 'touch' -- Safety through transfer -- Phase transition towards relational, performative agency -- Process strategies -- 10. Environmental Entanglement in the Dance Machine: Lee -- Querying belonging: sourcing displacement -- A simple dance: devising a consensual feedback system -- Generating components and phase transition: listening tocollective/environmental interaction -- Transitions from hesitant/unconnected performance to engagement -- Immersive rest and robust forms of creative engagement -- Invited forms of collaborative engagement -- Performative strategies -- 11. Conclusion: Affecting Agency, Learning, and Change through Performance Generating Systems -- The conceptualization of performance generating systems -- Dramaturgical, psychological, and performative case insights -- The combined theoretical frameworks and their future application -- Appendix: Methodological Negotiations -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.
• Sommario/riassunto: Analyzes the self-organizing dramaturgies of dance works that generate performance systematically. Provides effective resources for those who wish to study or realize the potential of performance generating systems in dance within the fields of choreography and dance dramaturgy, dance education, community dance, or dance psychology. 17 b&w illus. A PDF version of the introduction of this book is available for free in Open Access: Performance Generating Systems in Dance. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public license.