Intention and Serendipity: Investigating Improvisation, Symbolism and Memory in Creating Australian Contemporary Dance

当代舞蹈是传达澳大利亚故事和文化多样性的主要工具之一。 很少有人知道的过程，支持创作和表演的交际舞蹈作品，更少的过程和风格的传统，独特的澳大利亚形式。 我们将研究参与创作，精炼，表演重要作品的认知和动觉过程。结合实验和实践为基础的研究，我们研究的心理机制从事精英编舞，经验丰富的和新兴的舞者，并分析独特的澳大利亚遗产和体现的知识明显领先的舞者和编舞格特鲁德Bodenwieser的影响。

Contemporary dance is one of the major vehicles through which Australian stories and cultural diversity are communicated. Little is known about the processes that underpin creation and performance of communicative dance works, and less still about processes and stylistic traditions unique to the Australian form. We will investigate cognitive and kinaesthetic processes involved in creating, refining, performing significant works. Combining experimental and practice-based research we examine psychological mechanisms engaged by elite choreographers, and experienced and emerging dancers, and analyse the unique Australian heritage and embodied knowledge evident in leading dancers and choreographers influenced by Gertrud Bodenwieser.