A cognitive ecological ethnographic approach to presence in dance and performance

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The notion of stage presence in performing arts is generally understood as a prerogative of the skilled performer, resulting from regimens of training, or intrinsic charisma. The main problem with the ‘classic model of stage presence’ is the performer’s position of power, and the relative concealment of audience’ participation (Sherman 2016). Scholars who adopted an enactive and phenomenological perspective (Macneill 2014; Zarrilli 2009, 2012; Sherman, 2016) have challenged the view that conceives theatrical presence an individual prerogative of the performer. Through a phenomenological and cognitive ecological ethnographic approach, I address presence in three different dance practices: Contemporary Ballet (Pini and Sutton, 2021), Contact Improvisation (Pini, McIlwain & Sutton, 2016; Pini and Deans, 2021) and Body Weather (Pini, 2022). By tackling how theatrical presence emerges in relation to a complex and dynamic environment, that includes audiences and performers co-presence and the socio-cultural situatedness of the performance event (Pini 2018, 2021), I suggest adopting a cognitive ecological framework (Hutchins, 1995, 2010; Tribble & Sutton, 2011) to the study of presence in different performance contexts.
Periode24. aug. 2021
BegivenhedstitelIdræt, Kultur og Samfund: National konference om humanistisk og samfundsvidenskabelig idrætsforskning
BegivenhedstypeKonference
PlaceringOdense, DanmarkVis på kort
Grad af anerkendelseNational

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