The Adaptability of Language-Motor Connections in Dance and Acting: A Coordination Dynamics Experiment

Autores

  • Pil Hansen School of Creative and Performing Arts, University of Calgary.

Palavras-chave:

dance, theatre, language-motor coordination, cognitive dynamics

Resumo

This study examined the strength of language-motor connections in dance and acting through a dynamical coordination experiment. It was designed to achieve a higher degree of precision and discipline-specificity than provided by past applications of action-based language theory to the fields of dance psychology and cognitive performance studies. The study revealed that language-motor connections are dependent on training and artistic discipline. It also found that while these connections attract behavior, task-oriented attempts to counter this effect produce implicit adaptation or creation of new language-motor connections. These discoveries are considered in terms of their utility and potential application to gesture-based memorization, choreographic reflection, and improvisational feed-back systems in dance and theatre.

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Biografia do Autor

Pil Hansen, School of Creative and Performing Arts, University of Calgary.

Dr. Pil Hansen is an Assistant Professor of Dance and Drama at the University of Calgary, a founding member of Vertical City Performance, and a dance/devising dramaturg. Her empirical and PaR experiments examine cognitive dynamics of memory and perception in creative processes. She developed the tool-set “Perceptual Dramaturgy” and, with Bruce Barton, the interdisciplinary research model “Research-Based Practice.” Her award-winning creative work has toured nationally and internationally and her scholarly research is published in Performance Research, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Theatre Topics, TDR: The Drama Review, Canadian Theatre Review, Peripiti, Koreografisk Journal and a series of essay collections on dramaturgy, PaR, and research methods. Hansen co-edited the essay collections Dance Dramaturgy: Modes of Agency, Awareness and Engagement (Palgrave, 2015) and Performing the Remembered Present: The Cognition of Memory in Dance, Theatre and Music (Bloomsbury Methuen, 2017).

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Publicado

2016-06-16

Como Citar

Hansen, P. (2016). The Adaptability of Language-Motor Connections in Dance and Acting: A Coordination Dynamics Experiment. Revista Eletrônica MAPA D2 - Mapa E Programa De Artes Em Dança (e Performance) Digital, 3(1). Recuperado de https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/mapad2/article/view/16874

Edição

v. 3 n. 1 (2016)

Seção

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