Event

Session 5: Embodied Cognition, Learning of Creative Movement
Session organizers: Guido Orgs (Goldsmiths, London)
In the execution of creative movement, the human body is used and assessed as an instrument. This session will focus on aspects of pedagogy in this process, and examine the role of mimicry and “mirroring” of creative movement. It then addresses how creative movement is acquired and the implications of this talent for learning theories and systems of dance notation such as learning to “read” dance. Another key focus of the session will be presentations on how creative movement can play a significant role in STEM learning and education, led by Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts. Through interactive engagement, practitioners will demonstrate strategies and arts-integrated instruction applied in early childhood learning environments which support children's learning of math and science concepts, vocabulary, and habits of mind, as well as performing arts skills and concepts.

Beatriz Calvo-Merino (City University, London): Dance, Brains and Emotion.

Guido Orgs (Goldsmiths, London) + Demonstrations: The neurocognition of dance and choreography.

Akua Kouyate-Tate (Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts): Early Childhood STEM Learning through Dance: The Interchange between Practice and Research.

Lunch Hour Demonstration: Heidi Latsky – ON DISPLAY (lunch provided in Pavilion). Participate here: link

It began as a series of free and public installations throughout NYC in honor of the 25th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act in partnership with Lincoln Center, Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities, and Dance/NYC. It has grown into a social justice movement worldwide with a cast that is inclusive with respect to ethnicity, race, body size and shape, and age.

As a commentary on the body as spectacle and society's obsession with body image, this human sculpture court exhibits performers as they claim their space as sculptures and allow the audience to view them in all their fierceness and vulnerability.

“On Display/Boston is everything I want from a work of art: It is thoughtful and makes you think. It provokes reflection. It is full of spirit. It is full of beauty. It is inclusive. And it takes you deep inside yourself even as it expands the world around you.” David Henry, Bill T. Jones Director of Performing and Media Arts at the Institute of Contemporary Art

Session 6: Creative Movement as cognitive neuroscience, as an epistemological model, as an enactive laboratory
Session organizer: Asaf Bachrach (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique – CNRS)
The session will integrate all topics covered in the previous sessions so as to explore how creative movement and dance can by themselves serve as educational paths for scientific endeavors and not just “objects” of science.

The presentations will be constructed as a space for dialogue between cognitive neuroscience and creative movement. Though scientists and dancers use very different tools or paradigms, they often ask very similar questions ‘about the brain’, relating to the dynamics of multimodal sensory-motor integration, motor control, empathy, attention, agency, affect and ultimately the nature of consciousness and the self.

A group of the invited participants (an assemblage of scientists, creative movement professionals, and philosophers) will also spend a few days together before the workshop to prepare an innovative hybrid platform for trans-disciplinary perspective sharing and body-storming based on Lisa Nelson’s Tuning Score practice. Simple tools/scores from participatory improvisational dance will be used to forged shared experiences as a base for a conversation (among all participants of the workshop). The ‘empirical’ focus of the session will be on how we come to make sense of each other and together, and how to convey educationally these notions and exploit them in science education.

Asaf Bachrach (Performer/spectator interactions): Synchronization, Attention and Transformation in Creative Movement and joint improvisation and in Virtual Reality.

João Fiadeiro: https://www.numeridanse.tv/en/dance-videotheque/de-la-composition-en-temps-reel-joao-fiadeiro

Margit Galanter: https://margitg.wordpress.com/

Lisa Nelson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Nelson

Nara Figueirdo (Center of Logic, Epistemology and History of Science): https://sites.google.com/view/naramfigueiredo/

Julien Laroche (The Center for Translational Neurophysiology of Speech & Communication at the Italian Institute of Technology)

Joe Dumit (University of California, Davis)