Music, Medicine and Dance - exploring what it means to perform

音乐、医学和舞蹈——探索表演的意义

• 批准号: AH/W004062/1
• 负责人: Roger Kneebone
• 金额: $ 3.02万
• 依托单位: Imperial College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FW004062%2F1
• 关键词: Music; Medicine; Dance; exploring; what

This proposal brings together a network of practitioners, academics, and educators from music, dance, fine arts, medicine,and science to investigate the role of cross-disciplinary approaches to performance. It will explore what it means to performin different fields and will map the "pathway to performance" across disciplines to increase our understanding of the journeyfrom novice to expert performer. Identifying the challenges that practitioners across different disciplines encounter, andstruggle to address in isolation, will allow us to develop novel solutions drawing on the diverse expertise of the network.Areas of initial investigation will include physicality and embodied knowledge, engaging audiences, managing performanceanxiety, and developing a healthy professional identity as a performer.At first glance scientists and doctors may not obviously be "performers", at least not in the same sense as musicians anddancers. But on closer inspection we see that much of the same expertise is required for their practice. For instance,procedural knowledge - how to apply what you know in order to do - is essential in artistic practice and craft-based skills.Artists integrate subject matter knowledge with practical skills, dexterity, emotional connection and effectivecommunication. Combined, these skills represent the craftsmanship of performance. Medicine, though often perceived tobe a scientific field, sits at an intersection where applied science meets craftmanship and performance. Clinicians must have sound knowledge of disease and how to treat it. But, more than this, doctors too must integrate this knowledge withpractical skills, dexterity, emotional connection and effective communication. To stop bleeding from an artery, a surgeonmust use their anatomical knowledge to identify the problem and their practical expertise to deal with it (tie the vessel with asuture). But they cannot do this alone. Surgery depends on team work. In an emergency, a surgical team must worktogether at breakneck speed in a confined area around the operating table. Their rapid expert movements in this confinedspace have a choreographic elegance and precision. Yet this co-ordination of movement develops over time - thoughexpected, it is not explicitly taught. Clinicians may benefit greatly from perspectives used in the artistic "pathway toperformance". At the same time, we will identify aspect of performance development in dance and music which may benefitfrom clinical perspectives by viewing arts and music through a medical lens.Inspecting the practices of other disciplines brings into focus the unseen expertise behind our own. Recognising andsupporting the development of these unseen skills has the potential to transform the perspective of practitioners, fromlearner to professional, and support their journey along the pathway to performance.This proposal is a joint initiative between the Centre for Engagement and Simulation Science at Imperial College London,the Royal College of Music/Imperial Centre for Performance Science and the Centre for Dance Research at CoventryUniversity. It will bring together academics and educators from these three institutions as well as non-academic expertpractitioners. Members will exchange ideas in a series of six themed workshops. They will identify aspects within their owncraft of greatest potential benefit to other disciplines. Drawing on this network, core-project members will develop and pilotcross-disciplinary educational interventions aimed at supporting students on their "pathway to performance". A mixedmethods approach will investigate the value of this type of learning. Outcomes from the research will be disseminatedpublicly and at an institutional level to enhance our understanding of cross-disciplinary education and promote thedevelopment of further cross-disciplinary initiatives.

这项建议汇集了来自音乐、舞蹈、美术、医学和科学的从业者、学者和教育工作者的网络，以调查跨学科方法在表演中的作用。它将探索在不同领域的表演意味着什么，并将绘制跨学科的“表演之路”，以增加我们对从新手到专业表演者的旅程的理解。找出不同学科的从业者遇到的挑战，以及单独应对的困难，将使我们能够利用网络的不同专业知识开发新的解决方案。初步调查的领域将包括身体和具体知识，吸引观众，管理表演焦虑，以及发展作为表演者的健康职业认同。乍一看，科学家和医生可能不是明显的“表演者”，至少不是音乐家和舞蹈家。但仔细观察，我们会发现，他们的实践需要许多相同的专业知识。例如，程序性知识--如何应用你所知道的东西来做--在艺术实践和手工艺技能中是必不可少的。艺术家将主题知识与实践技能、灵巧性、情感联系和有效的沟通结合在一起。这些技能加在一起，代表了表演的技艺。医学，虽然通常被认为是一个科学领域，但它位于应用科学与工艺和性能的交叉点上。临床医生必须对疾病和如何治疗有扎实的知识。但是，更重要的是，医生也必须将这些知识与实用技能、灵活性、情感联系和有效沟通结合起来。为了止住动脉出血，外科医生必须利用他们的解剖学知识来识别问题，并使用他们的实用专业知识来处理它(用缝线绑住血管)。但他们不能单独做到这一点。手术有赖于团队合作。在紧急情况下，手术团队必须在手术台周围的狭小区域内以惊人的速度共同工作。他们在这个狭小的空间中的快速专业动作具有编排的优雅和精准性。然而，这种运动的协调是随着时间的推移而发展的--尽管这是意料之中的，但并没有明确地传授。临床医生可能会从艺术“表演途径”中使用的视角中获益良多。同时，我们会透过医学观察，找出在舞蹈和音乐方面的表演发展可能会从临床角度有所裨益。透过观察其他学科的实践，我们会注意到隐藏在我们自己背后的无形专长。认识和支持这些看不见的技能的发展有可能改变从业者的视角，从学习者到专业人士，并支持他们在表演道路上的旅程。这项提议是由伦敦帝国理工学院参与和模拟科学中心、皇家音乐学院/帝国表演科学中心和考文垂大学舞蹈研究中心联合发起的。它将汇集来自这三个机构的学者和教育工作者以及非学术专家和从业者。成员们将在一系列六个主题工作坊中交流意见。他们将确定自己手艺中对其他学科有最大潜在好处的方面。利用这一网络，核心项目成员将开发和试行跨学科教育干预措施，旨在支持学生走上“表现之路”。一种混合方法的方法将调查这种学习的价值。研究结果将在公共和机构层面上传播，以加深我们对跨学科教育的了解，并促进进一步的跨学科倡议的发展。