[dance-tech] Re: New book on dance and science out

hello all"

The GTF Yearbook 15 (German Dance Research Association), "Tanz im Kopf / Dance 
and Cognition"  was published a few weeks ago and should be out now..... and of 
course we'd be pleased if you ordered a copy for your libraries or passed the 
word around to other interested readers. thank you. JB


Announcing:



Johannes Birringer/Josephine Fenger (Eds):

Tanz im Kopf/Dance and Cognition

GTF Yearbook TanzForschung, vol. 15
LIT Verlag, Münster
ISBN 3-8258-8712-x

"Tanz im Kopf / Dance and Cognition" is a bilingual anthology of new dance 
studies reflecting the annual research focus proposed for 2004 by the German 
Association for Dance Research. The title refers to tendencies both in 
contemporary dance practices and in dance scholarship. The discursive thread of 
the eighteen essays collected in the book runs from a historical understanding 
of dance which tended largely to separate dancing from thinking to the current 
proposition that dancing is thinking. Theoretical considerations regarding 
contemporary concept dance are examined along with sociological dimensions of 
dance culture and pedagogical concepts. Intercultural projects are included and 
analyzed along with approaches to dance improvisation and dance experiments 
with media technologies. 

The discussion forum "Dance and Science" offers a special focus on various new 
research approaches in the cognitive neurosciences and experimental psychology 
and their impact on dance research and aesthetics.  The essays in this forum 
present innovative models for the analysis of cognition and movement, and 
provide a critical framework for examining the influence of media and 
visualization technologies in dance production and research. Observational 
analyses of sensorimotoric behavior yield new findings that are relevant both 
for composition and performance practice as well as for dance pedagogical and 
therapeutic methods and improvisational techniques. This yearbook breaks new 
ground in international dance research advocating a strong cross-disciplinary 
emphasis on aesthetic and scientific investigations of performance and 
cognition.


From the Table of Contents:
Vernunft-Denken und Körper-Denken * Moderner Tanz im kultursozialistischen 
Diskurs * Getanzte Dichtung - Gedichteter Tanz * Forsythes Konzepte des 
imaginären Raums * The Art of Getting Lost - Felix Ruckerts "Venus" in Hanoi * 
Tanz als Muskelgedächtnis und Bilderschrift * Cerebrality: Rewriting 
Corporeality * Körpergedächtnis und Neurowissenschaft * Dance Images: Mental 
Imagery Processes in Dance* Neurokritik des Tanzes * Minds and Motion: 
Dynamical Systems in Choreography, Creativity, and Dance * Seeing What You Can 
Do: The Dancer's Brain * What's in a Phrase? * BrainDance/Tanz an der 
Schnittstelle zwischen  Bewusstsein und Bewegung * On Improvisational Dance 
within Cognitive Systems


October 21,  2005



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