Embodying Recognition: Dance Improvisation for Scientists

Susanne Martin

About this exposition

In this exposition (text, videos, photos) I discuss a series of participatory lecture performances as one major outcome of my artistic research on dance improvisation in and for science and technology oriented higher education. These lecture performances aim to give different stakeholders in the science field an initial insight into dance improvisation and to facilitate discussion of its potential for the scientific learning, teaching and research culture. From the perspective of a dance artist and artistic researcher, I trace the details of how and why I created events for scientists to encounter dance improvisation through shared exploration and shared reflection. Interlacing descriptive and reflective writing, I unfold the argument that by engaging in improvisation as an embodied recognition practice, reflective processes can be set into motion, which critically question habituated forms of bodily, social and epistemological exclusions within academia. In other words, by conceptualising dance improvisation as recognition practice, I hope to shed light on its critical potential which exceeds questions of spontaneity and creativity.

type	research exposition
keywords	dance improvisation, art in science, higher education, artistic research, lecture performance, sensorial and social recognition, embodiment, Erkennen/Anerkennen, art based teaching and learning
date	03/06/2023
published	03/06/2023
last modified	03/06/2023
status	published
share status	private
affiliation	Instant Lab, EPFL Switzerland
copyright	Susanne Martin
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	British English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1937930/1937931
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/rc.1937930
published in	Research Catalogue
external link	www.susannemartin.de

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