Dance Data Cognition and Multimodal Communication

<p><em>Dance Data Cognition and Multimodal Communication</em> is the result of a collaborative and transdisciplinary effort towards a first definition of dance data with its complexities and contradictions in a time where cognitive science is growing in parallel to the need of a renewed awareness of the body’s agency in our manyfold interactions with the world. </p><p>It is a reflection on the observation of bodily movements in artistic settings and one that views human social interactions multimodal communication and cognitive processes through a different lens—that of the close collaboration between performing artists designers and scholars.</p><p>This collection focuses simultaneously on methods and technologies for creating documenting or representing dance data. The editors highlight works focusing on the dancers’ embodied minds including research using neural cognitive behavioural and linguistic data in the context of dance composition processes. Each chapter deals with dance data from an interdisciplinary perspective presenting theoretical and methodological discussions emerging from empirical studies as well as more experimental ones. </p><p>The book which includes digital Support Material on the volume's Routledge website will be of great interest to students and scholars in contemporary dance neuro-cognitive science intangible cultural heritage performing arts cognitive linguistics embodiment design new media and creativity studies.</p>