Performance Generating Systems in Dance

af Pil (University of Calgary) Hansen

An interdisciplinary analysis of how performance-generating systems attract patterns of movement and why that affects dramaturgical agency, cognitive learning, and relational change. Performance-generating systems are systematic and task-based dramaturgy that generate performance for or with an audience. In dance, such systems differ in ways that matter from more closed choreographed scores and more open forms of structured improvisation. Dancers performing within these systems draw on predefine... (Læs mere)