Main description:

dance, data, multimodal communication, dancers, neuro-cognitive science, contemporary dance, intangible cultural heritage, performing arts, cognitive linguistics, embodiment, design, and creativity studies

Contents:

List of Illustrations

List of Contributors

Introduction

CARLA FERNANDES

Part I

Performance-as-Research: Dance data from the artists' perspectives

1 Negotiating deliberate choice-making: Insights from an interdisciplinary and multimodal encounter during the making of a New Contemporary Dance

SYLVIA RIJMER

2 Dance | Data | Storytelling

STEPHAN JUERGENS

3 Enabling multimodal interaction in mixed-abled dance: Insights into creating highly accessible teaching tools for inclusive cultural work

SUSANNE QUINTEN AND MIA SOPHIA BILITZA

Part II

Dance documentation and dance scores

4 Recording "Effect": A case study in technical, practical, and critical perspectives on dance data creation

DAVID RITTERSHAUS, ANTON KOCH, SCOTT DELAHUNTA, AND FLORIAN JENETT

5 Digital-born artworks and interactive experience: Documentation and archiving

PAULA VARANDA

6 Dance scoring and en-action as a creative tool for dance documentation

BERTHA BERMUDEZ-PASCUAL

7 Terpsicore - dance and performing arts archive

DANIEL TERCIO, CATARINA CANELAS, AND ANA LUISA VALDEIRA

Part III

Computational dance data: Between the real and the virtual

8 Augmented seeing and sensing

ANGUS G. FORBES

9 Motion capture and the digital dance aesthetic: Using inertial sensor motion tracking for devising and producing contemporary dance performance

DANIEL STRUTT

10 Capturing and visualizing 3D dance data: Challenges and lessons learnt

CLAUDIA RIBEIRO, RAFAEL KUFFNER, AND CARLA FERNANDES

Part IV

The brain's experience of dance

11 The embodied neuroaesthetics of watching dance

EMILY S. CROSS AND REBECCA SMITH

12 Dancing neurons: Common brain activity fMRI analysis of the cerebral phenomena behind dance perception

SOFIA AMARAL MARTINS AND FRANK POLLICK

13 "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

Part V

Dance expertise and cognition

14 Dance expertise, embodied cognition, and the body in the brain

BETTINA BLAESING

15 What makes dancers extraordinary? Insights from a cognitive science perspective

CARLA FERNANDES, VITO EVOLA, AND JOANNA SKUBISZ

16 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

Part VI

Cognitive metaphor and gestures in dance and theatre

17 Unpeeling meaning: An analogy and metaphor identification and analysis tool for modern and post-modern dance, and beyond

VICKY J . FISHER

18 Understanding non-verbal metaphor: A cognitive approach to metaphor in dance

LACEY OKONSKI, JULIE MADDEN, AND KAITLIN TOTHPAL

19 Study on hand movements accompanied during the description of dance appreciation

ZI HYUN KIM AND HEDDA LAUSBERG

20 Reduction of gesticulation and information patterning strategies in acted speech

GIORGINA CANTALINI AND MASSIMO MONEGLIA

21 Lines of experience: Towards a research method

MICHAEL O'CONNOR

Note about Funding

Index