Cooperation, Communication, and Collaboration
The Sociality of a Corps de Ballet
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11210362 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kate Mattingly (0000-0001-8223-6006), Laura Kay Young |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 132-144 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dance Chronicle (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0147-2526 • E-ISSN: 1532-4257 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01472526.2020.1767966 |
| OpenAlex | W3041403071 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This paper analyzes the relational and cooperative labor of a corps de ballet. In particular, attention is called to the ways the dancers’ embodied knowledge and decision-making processes constitute a vital part of a production’s impact. Two key aspects of dancers’ performances as a corps de ballet are collaboration and cooperation, which are components of eusociality, a term used to describe the highest level of organization of sociality, commonly observed in honeybees. Through embodied experiences and attention to dancers’ decision-making, we find a corps de ballet operates in ways that are similar to democratic decision-making processes in honeybee behaviors
Art · Ballet · Dance · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Sociality · Sociology · Visual arts · Ecology · Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior · Insect and Pesticide Research · Plant and animal studies · Psychology
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |