Performance Generating Systems in Dance Dramaturgy, Psychology, and Performativity

Performance generating systems are systematic and task-based dramaturgies that generate performance for or with an audience. In dance, such systems differ in ways that matter from more closed choreographed scores and more open forms of structured improvisation. Dancers performing within these systems draw on predefined and limited sources, while working on specific tasks within constraining rules. The generating components of the systems provide boundaries that enable the performance to self-organize into shifting patterns, instead of becoming either repetitive or chaotic. The patterns that emerge and the transitions they go through tend to develop iteratively over multiple performances. Every performance is slightly different, and change does occur, though it tends to emerge indirectly and in relation to co-performers and environments, rather than as an expression of individual or choreographic intentions. This book analyzes the self-organizing dramaturgies of dance works that generate performance systematically. It identifies the generating components and dynamics of these works and the kinds of dramaturgical agency they enable. It explains how the systems of these creations affect the perception, cognition, and learning of dancers and why that is a central part of how they work. It also examines how the combined dramaturgical and psychological effects of the systems performatively address individual and social conditions of trauma that otherwise tend to remain unchangeable and negatively impact the human capacity to learn, relate, and adapt. The book makes these insights, the frameworks used to arrive at them, and the examined dance works available for researchers, students, and artists. It provides effective resources for those who wish to study or realize the potential of performance generating systems in dance within the fields of choreography and dance dramaturgy, dance education, community dance, or dance psychology. Choreographers working with structures and improvisation; dance researchers looking to set up research projects with choreographers; scientists; somatic analysts, dramaturgs; performance makers

ISBN:	9781789386400
Publisher:	Intellect Books
Imprint:	Intellect Books
Published date:	14 Dec 2022
DEWEY:	793.3
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	174
Weight:	-1g
Height:	244mm
Width:	170mm

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