Cognitive dance improvisation: How study of the motor system can inspire dance (and vice versa)

Leonardo

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 221-227

  Hagendoorn, Ivar ^a  

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EID: 2442679805     PISSN: 0024094X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/002409403321921442     Document Type: Article

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6. See the "divisions in space" rule in the tutorial section of my web site:
7. The 1960s saw a profusion of experimentation in what has become known as American postmodern dance; for a review see S. Bancs, Terpsichore in Sneakers (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980)
8. W. Forsythe, Improvisation Technologies. A Tool for the Analytical Dance Eye (Karlsruhe, Germany: Center for Art and Mediatechnology, 1999)
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15. If you stir a cup of coffee - assuming no coffee is spilled - odd as it may sound, at least one bit will remain at its original location. For a popular introduction to Brouwer's fixed point theorem and its applications, see J.L. Casti, Five Golden Rules: Great Theories of 20th-century Mathematics and Why They Matter (NewYork: Wiley, 1996)
16. For a. review see J.H. Abbs and K.J. Cole, "Neural Mechanisms of Motor Equivalence and Goal Achievement," in S.P. Wise, ed., Higher Brain Functions: Recent Explorations of the Brain's Emergent Properties (New York: Wiley, 1987). I would like to thank the anonymous reviewer for drawing my attention to this work
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22. For an overview of schema theory see M.A. Arbib et al., Neural Organization Structure, Function and Dynamics (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998)
23. See
24. See Hagendoorn [1] and Ramachandran and Hirstein [2]
25. Videos of the techniques described here as well as a number of other techniques can be viewed at