Collaborative Embodied Performance: Ecologies of Skill

✍ Scribed by Kath Bicknell; John Sutton (editors)

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 265
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book brings together scholarship in performance studies, cognitive science, sociology, literature, anthropology, psychology, architecture, philosophy and sport science to ask how tightly knit collaboration works. Innovative methodological approaches are applied to detailed case studies from martial arts, tango, social interaction, Body Weather, human-AI music composition, Front-of-House at the Globe Theatre, and failing at handstands. Each investigation exposes performance and theory as mutually revealing, informative and captivating.
Short chapters fall into thematic clusters exploring embodied collaboration, cognition, and coordination, followed by commentaries from leading scholars in performance studies and cognitive science. Each brings to light different facets of the performance ecology present in the collaborative moment(s), equipping performance makers, students and researchers with theoretical, methodological and practical inspiration to delve deeper into their own embodied practices and critical thinking.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction: The situated intelligence of collaborative skills John Sutton and Kath Bicknell
Part 1 Complex ecologies of embodied collaboration
1 Dropping like flies: Skilled coordination and Front-of-House at Shakespeare’s Globe Evelyn B. Tribble
2 On the edge of undoing: Ecologies of agency in Body Weather Sarah Pini
3 A conversation on collaborative embodied engagement in making art and architecture: Going beyond the divide between ‘lower’ and ‘higher’ cognition Janno Martens, Ronald Rietveld and Erik Rietveld
Commentary: Redirecting our telescope Amy Cook
Part 2 Learning, collaboration and socially scaffolded cognition
4 ‘No elephants today!’ Recurrent experiences of failure while learning a movement practice Kath Bicknell and Kristina Brümmer
5 Not breathing together: The collaborative development of expert apnoea Greg Downey
6 Cultivating one’s skills through the experienced other in aikido Susanne Ravn
7 Musical agency and collaboration in the digital age Tom Roberts and Joel Krueger
Commentary: Embodied learning within embodied communities Emily S. Cross
Part 3 Symmetry and synergy in embodied coordination
8 Symmetries of social performance-environment systems Rachel W. Kallen, Margaret Catherine Macpherson,
Lynden K. Miles and Michael J. Richardson
9 Sing’s trap: Staging low-commitment strategizing in muay thai Sara Kim Hjortborg
10 Intercorporeal synergy practices – perspectives from expert interaction Michael Kimmel and Stefan Schneider
Commentary: Mixing methods in the study of human action Anthony Chemero
Afterwords
Commentary: Ecologies of acting and enacting Catherine J. Stevens
Commentary: Betwixt and between Ian Maxwell
Index