Knowledge Unspoken Contemporary Dance and the Cycle of Practice-led Research, Basic and Applied Research, and Research-led Practice

Contemporary dance is most often created through bodily explorations in the medium of movement. It is expressive, ephemeral and unspoken. Dance epitomises the challenge for the temporal arts in documenting, describing, quantifying and explaining unspoken knowledge. In this chapter, we argue that the...

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Published inPractice-led Research, Research-led Practice in the Creative Arts p. 84
Main Authors Shirley McKechnie, Catherine Stevens
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United Kingdom Edinburgh University Press 30.06.2009
Subjects
Applied sciences
Art education
Arts
Arts participation
Audiences
Behavioral sciences
Choreography
Cognition
Cognitive processes
Cognitive psychology
Communication studies
Consumers
Creativity
Dance
Dance movement
Human populations
Modern dance
Music
Music education
Music practice
Musical performance
Observational research
Performing arts
Persons
Population studies
Psychology
Research methods
Research methods: general
Social sciences
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Summary:Contemporary dance is most often created through bodily explorations in the medium of movement. It is expressive, ephemeral and unspoken. Dance epitomises the challenge for the temporal arts in documenting, describing, quantifying and explaining unspoken knowledge. In this chapter, we argue that the qualities of dance that challenge traditional research methods and documentation are informative in disciplines such as cognitive science. We will describe the way dance encapsulates embodied cognition and the potency of that unspoken knowledge. Drawing on our own experiences in multidisciplinary research in, about and for contemporary dance we discuss the application of extant qualitative and quantitative
ISBN:9780748636280
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