Description
Book SynopsisDance Data, Cognition, and Multimodal Communication is the result of a collaborative and transdisciplinary effort towards a first definition of dance data, with its complexities and contradictions, in a time where cognitive science is growing in parallel to the need of a renewed awareness of the bodyâs agency in our manyfold interactions with the world.
It is a reflection on the observation of bodily movements in artistic settings, and one that views human social interactions, multimodal communication, and cognitive processes through a different lensâthat of the close collaboration between performing artists, designers, and scholars.
This collection focuses simultaneously on methods and technologies for creating, documenting, or representing dance data. The editors highlight works focusing on the dancersâ embodied minds, including research using neural, cognitive, behavioural, and linguistic data in the context of dance composition processes. Each chapter deals
