Movement and experiences in interaction in a case of improvised dance
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Contact Improvisation, personal experience, social interaction, movement, joint improvisationAbstract
The art of dance is the object of study of different disciplines that are interested in unravelling the elements that come into play when dancing together. Collective improvisation practices are privileged scenarios for the study of basic components of social interaction because they are activities that take place in a restricted temporal-spatial framework, rely heavily on sensorimotor couplings, and also give rise to innovation. Among the various dance styles, contact improvisation (CI) appears as a paradigmatic example of how the creation of shared meaning among dancers allows them to perform sequences of movements based on body contact. Several researches have studied joint improvisation in dance, however, to our knowledge there are no studies on interpersonal coordination in CI that simultaneously integrate registers from a third-person perspective and the experience of the dancers themselves from a first-person perspective. This paper sought to analyse an CI event by integrating both records of personal experience and behavioural dynamics. The qualitative analysis of both records revealed the emergence of diachronic and synchronic categories that allowed us to deepen the interpretation of what happened at both the biomechanical and phenomenological levels. The results obtained allow us to postulate that the role of the interactive synergy of movements would constitute a dimension of utmost relevance in CI situations.
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