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Cognitive Ecologies in dance and performance

Stemming from Pini’s doctoral project ‘Stage presence in dance: a cognitive ecological ethnographic approach’, this project further develops accounts and enactments of presence, embodiment and agency in different artistic forms and cultural contexts.

The project highlights the role of the body in cognition by investigating different dance and performance practices such as Contemporary Dance, Ballet, Contact Improvisation, Body Weather, Screendance–through ethnographic, phenomenological and cognitive ecological frameworks.

Pini, S. (2022). On the edge of undoing: Ecologies of agency in Body Weather. In K. Bicknell, & J. Sutton Lutterbie (Eds.), Collaborative Embodied Performance: Ecologies of Skill (pp. 35-52). Bloomsbury Academic. Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues.
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Deans, C., & Pini, S. (2022). Skilled performance in Contact Improvisation: the importance of interkinaesthetic sense of agency. Synthese, 200 (2), [139].
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Pini, S., & Deans, C. (2022). Expanding empathic and perceptive awareness: The experience of attunement in Contact Improvisation and Body Weather. Performance Research, 26(3), 106-113.
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Pini, S., & Sutton, J. (2021). Transmitting Passione: Emio Greco and the Ballet National de Marseille. In K. Farrugia-Kriel, & J. N. Jensen (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet (pp. 594-612). Oxford University Press. Oxford Handbooks.
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Last Updated 19.10.2023