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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hansen, Pil, 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--Psychological aspects.

Dance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (170 pages)

Place of Publication:

Intellect 2022

Bristol, England : Intellect Ltd, [2022]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Hansen, Pil Performance Generating Systems in Dance

ISBN:

9781789386417

1789386411

9781789386424

178938642X