A transdisciplinary approach to practice-as-research, complete with
its own elaborate theory of practice and a set of four
multi-year-performance research projects through which the theory
plays out. Its methodology is at times ethnographic as Henry Daniel
deftly inserts himself and his Caribbean West African ancestry into
a series of complex cortical and geographic maps, which become
choreographic in every sense of the term. The central argument in
the book is based on a claim that human beings are cognitively
embodied through their own lived experiences of movement through
space and time; the spaces we inhabit and the practices we engage
in are documented through cortical and cartographic maps. In short,
as we inhabit and move through spaces our brains organise our
experiences into unique cortical and spatial maps, which eventually
determine how we see and deal with, i.e., ‘become’ subjects in
a world that we also help create. The argument is that through
performance, as a re-cognising and re-membering of these movements,
we can claim the knowledge that is in the body as well as in the
spaces through which it travels. To demonstrate how the brain
organises our experiences of the world according to cartographic
(graphically mapping procedures) and cortical (motor, sensory and
visual functions) mapping and exploring the impact of this mapping
to choreographic practice, considering how maps might be disrupted
or altered by change of circumstances. This is illustrated through
scientific, creative and reflective approaches to exploring
neurological process of embodied experiences, as well as the
analysis of projects that have utilized this practice thus far.
Audience will include Dance and Performance Studies Scholars;
Dancers and Choreographers; Undergraduate and Advanced Students;
Researchers
General
Imprint: |
Intellect Books
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
February 2023 |
Authors: |
Henry Daniel
|
Dimensions: |
244 x 170mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
280 |
Edition: |
New edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-78938-769-8 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-78938-769-8 |
Barcode: |
9781789387698 |
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