Improvisational Artistry in Live Dance Performance as Embodied and Extended Agency

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11222990
AutoresAili Bresnahan (University of Dayton, autor correspondente)
Ano2014
Volume46
Fascículo1
Páginas85-94
Data de publicação2014-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDance Research Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0149-7677 • E-ISSN: 1940-509X
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0149767714000035
OpenAlexW2113161554
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas20

This article provides an account of improvisational artistry in live dance performance that construes the contribution of the dance performer as a kind of agency. Andy Clark's theory of the embodied and extended mind is used in order to consider how this account is supported by research on how a thinking-while-doing person navigates the world. I claim here that while a dance performer's improvisational artistry does include embodied and extended features that occur outside of the brain and nervous system, that this can be construed as “agency” rather than “thought.” Further I claim that trained and individual style accounts for how this agency acquires its artistic nature. This account thus contributes to the philosophy of improvisation in dance performance in a way that includes motor as well as cognized intentions

Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy) · Art · Ballet · Choreography · Concert dance · Dance · Dance improvisation · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Improvisation · Jazz dance · Performing arts · Social science · Sociology · Style (visual arts) · Visual arts · Action Observation and Synchronization · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Philosophy · Psychology