Dance data, cognition and multimodal communication

Introduction / Carla Fernandes -- Negotiating deliberate choice-making : insights from an interdisciplinary and multimodal encounter during the making of a new contemporary dance / Sylvia Rijmer -- Dance, data, storytelling / Stephan Jürgens -- Enabling multimodal interaction in mixed-abled dance : insights into creating highly accessible teaching tools through mixed-abled dance / Susanne Quinten and Mia Sophia Bilitza -- Recording "effect" : a case study in technical, practical and critical perspectives on dance data creation / David Rittershaus, Anton Koch, Scott deLahunta, and Florian Jenett -- Digital-born artworks and interactive experience : documentation and archiving / PaulaVaranda -- Dance scoring and en-action as a creative tool for dance documentation / Bertha Bermudez -- Terpsicore : dance and performing arts archive / Daniel Tércio, Ana Luísa Valdeira, and Catarina Canelas -- Augmented seeing and sensing / Angus Forbes -- Motion capture, kinetic synaesthesia and the digital aesthetic : a praxis of using the Rokoko inertial motion tracking system in devising and producing contemporary dance performance / Daniel Strutt -- Challenges of capturing and visualizing 3D dance data / Claudia Ribeiro and Rafael Kuffner -- The embodied neuroaesthetics of dance / Emily Cross and Rebecca Smith -- Dancing neurons : common brain activity fMRI analysis of the cerebral phenomena behind dance perception / Sofia Amaral Martins and Frank Pollick -- "I see something, and I like it" : unveiling a choreographer's decision-making process using quantitative and qualitative methods / Ana Rita Fonseca, Rodrigo Abril-de-Abreu, and Carla Fernandes -- Dance expertise, embodied cognition and the body in the brain / Bettina Bläsing -- What makes dancers extraordinary? : insights from a cognitive science perspective / Carla Fernandes, Vito Evola, and Joanna Skubisz -- The role of dance experience, visual processing strategies, and quantitative movement features in recognition of emotion from whole-body movements / Rebecca Smith and Frank Pollick -- Unpeeling meaning : an analogy and metaphor identification and analysis tool for modern and post-modern dance, and beyond / Vicky Fisher -- Understanding non-verbal metaphor : a cognitive approach to metaphor in dance / Lacey Okonski, Julie Madden, and Kaitlin Tothpal -- Study on hand movements accompanied during description of dance appreciation / Zi-Hyun Kim and Hedda Lausberg -- Reduction of gesticulation and information patterning strategies in acted speech / Giorgina Cantalini and Massimo Moneglia -- Lines of experience : towards a research method / Michael O'Connor.

"Dance 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 body's agency in our manyfold interactions with the world. It is reflection on observing bodily movements in artistic settings to view human social interactions, multimodal communication, and cognitive processes through a different lens, that 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 dancers' embodied minds, including research using neural, cognitive, behavioural, and linguistic data in the context of dance composition processes. Each chapter deals with dance data from an interdisciplinary perspective, presenting theoretical and methodological discussions emerging from empirical studies, as well as more experimental ones. The book will be of great interest to students and scholars in contemporary dance, neuro-cognitive science, intangible cultural heritage, performing arts, cognitive linguistics, embodiment, design, and creativity studies"

Includes bibliographical references and index.