ABSTRACT Rhythmic virtuosity or moving with “percussive attack” is an ultimate performance quality for Black/African dance. The practice of musicality is a window into a dynamic system of intersubjective communal creativity. Drumming, for example, provides percussive sensorial information that directs a dancer’s somatic and choreographic response. Cognitive scientists are interested in the...
This is not a trivial question for those of us who teach dance as part of a tradition of educators who seek to foster the development of critical thinkers or what might be called consciousness-raising education (Dewey 1923; Freire 1970; hooks 1994). It is a particularly complicated question for dance educators in the United States who must contend with the broad cultural assumption that the...
ABSTRACT The creative dancing body is an ideal exemplar of the embodied mind. However, creativity research has ceased to develop due to a lack of study of the embodied mind in cognitive science. Thus, much can be gained through exploring ways in which we maximize students’ creative potential by engaging 4E cognition through rich dance experiences. In my secondary dance classroom, 4E cognition...