Collaborative Embodied Performance: Ecologies of Skill by Kath Bicknell (English

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This book is about joint intelligence in action. It brings together scholarship in performance studies, cognitive science, sociology, literature, anthropology, psychology, architecture, philosophy and sport science to ask how tightly knit collaboration works. Contributors apply innovative methodologies to detailed case studies of martial arts, social interaction, freediving, site-specific artworks, Body Weather, human-AI music composition, Front-of-House at Shakespeare's Globe, acrobatics and failing at handstands. In each investigation, performance and theory are mutually revealing, informative and captivating.Short chapters fall into thematic clusters exploring complex ecologies of skill, collaborative learning and the microstructure of embodied coordination, followed by commentaries from leading scholars in performance studies and cognitive science. Each contribution highlights unique features of the performance ecology, equipping performance makers, students and researchers with the theoretical, methodological and practical inspiration to delve deeper into their own embodied practices and critical thinking.

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Kath Bicknell is a Research Fellow in the Discipline of Anthropology at Macquarie University, Australia.John Sutton is Emeritus Professor in Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Macquarie University, Australia.

Table of Contents

List of FiguresList of ContributorsPreface and AcknowledgementsIntroduction: The Situated Intelligence of Collaborative Skills, John Sutton and Kath Bicknell (Macquarie University, Australia)Part 1: Complex Ecologies of Embodied Collaboration1. Dropping like Flies: Skilled Coordination and Front-of-House at Shakespeare's Globe, Evelyn B. Tribble (University of Connecticut, USA)2. On the Edge of Undoing: Ecologies of Agency in Body Weather, Sarah Pini (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)3. A Conversation on Collaborative Embodied Engagement in Making Art and Architecture: Going Beyond the Divide Between 'Lower' and 'Higher' Cognition, Janno Martens (KU Leuven, Belgium), Ronald Rietveld (Rietveld Architecture-Art-Affordances, Netherlands) and Erik Rietveld (University of Twente and University of Amsterdam, Netherlands).Commentary: Redirecting Our Telescope, Amy Cook (Stony Brook University, USA)Part 2: Learning, Collaboration, and Socially Scaffolded Cognition4. 'No Elephants Today!' Recurrent Experiences of Failure While Learning a Movement Practice, Kath Bicknell (Macquarie University, Australia) and Kristina Brümmer (Oldenburg University, Germany)5. Not Breathing Together: The Collaborative Development of Expert Apnea, Greg Downey (Macquarie University, Australia)6. Cultivating One's Skills Through the Experienced Other in Aikido, Susanne Ravn (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)7. Musical Agency and Collaboration in the Digital Age, Tom Roberts (University of Exeter, UK) and Joel Krueger (University of Exeter, UK).Commentary: Embodied Learning Within Embodied Communities, Emily S. Cross (Macquarie University, Australia and University of Glasgow, UK)Part 3: Symmetry and Synergy in Embodied Coordination8. Symmetries of Social Performance-Environment Systems, Rachel W. Kallen (Macquarie University, Australia), Margaret Catherine Macpherson (University of Western Australia), Lynden K. Miles (University of Western Australia) and Michael J. Richardson (Macquarie University, Australia)9. Sing's Trap: Staging Low-Commitment Strategizing in Muay Thai, Sara Kim Hjortborg (Macquarie University, Australia)10. Intercorporeal Synergy Practices - Perspectives from Expert Interaction, Michael Kimmel (University of Vienna, Austria) and Stefan Schneider (Osnabrück University, Germany)Commentary: Mixing Methods in the Study of Human Action, Anthony Chemero (University of Cincinnati, USA)AfterwordsCommentary: Ecologies of Acting and Enacting, Catherine J. Stevens (Western Sydney University, Australia)Commentary: Betwixt and Between, Ian Maxwell (The University of Sydney, Australia)Index

Review

In dancing the tango, watching a live performance, or constructing a site-specific art installation, individuals synergistically and seamlessly engage in complex collaborative actions. How can mind, body and environment mesh to achieve shared goals? Bicknell and Sutton's superb anthology is essential reading for anyone interested in better understanding thought in action in group endeavours. * Barbara Montero, City University of New York, USA *By tracing how mindful expert performance can be shaped by ecological, social interpersonal, technological, and cultural factors, the essays collected in this book provide wonderfully in-depth accounts of skilled action in a diverse array of contexts and practices, from theatrical arts to martial arts. We find here important analyses of learning and skill acquisition, but also insights into live professional performance and training. * Shaun Gallagher, University of Memphis, USA *

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This book investigates skilled performance as collaborative and embodied, shaping and responding to unique environments, bodies and histories, featuring a wide range of case studies drawn from music, dance, sport, theatre and cultural practices.

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"In dancing the tango, watching a live performance, or constructing a site-specific art installation, individuals synergistically and seamlessly engage in complex collaborative actions. How can mind, body and environment mesh to achieve shared goals? Bicknell and Sutton's superb anthology is essential reading for anyone interested in better understanding thought in action in group endeavours." -- Barbara Montero, City University of New York, USA "By tracing how mindful expert performance can be shaped by ecological, social interpersonal, technological, and cultural factors, the essays collected in this book provide wonderfully in-depth accounts of skilled action in a diverse array of contexts and practices, from theatrical arts to martial arts. We find here important analyses of learning and skill acquisition, but also insights into live professional performance and training." -- Shaun Gallagher, University of Memphis, USA

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This book investigates skilled performance as collaborative and embodied, shaping and responding to unique environments, bodies and histories, featuring a wide range of case studies drawn from music, dance, sport, theatre and cultural practices.

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Features ethnographic case studies drawn from sport, music, dance, theatre and cultural practices to illuminate collaborative skills

Details ISBN1350197696 Short Title Collaborative Embodied Performance Series Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1350197696 ISBN-13 9781350197695 Format Hardcover Publication Date 2022-02-24 Imprint Methuen Drama Subtitle Ecologies of Skill Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2022-02-24 UK Release Date 2022-02-24 Illustrations 10 bw illus Pages 264 Author Prof Nicola Shaughnessy Edited by John Sutton DEWEY 791.01 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education AU Release Date 2022-02-23 We've got this

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