{"content":[{"text":"Seeing is Doing (and Believing?):","bbox":{"left":0.276201,"top":0.08532,"width":0.447223,"height":0.022942000000000004}},{"text":"An exploration of metakinesis, neuroscience, the relationship between the \n moving body and the watcher, and the implications for dance as a \n performed art form.","bbox":{"left":0.119582,"top":0.124987,"width":0.760591,"height":0.051418000000000005}},{"text":"Tessa Gordziejko \n Clore Leadership Programme 2005-7","bbox":{"left":0.120969,"top":0.193685,"width":0.372716,"height":0.03455}},{"text":"ABSTRACT","bbox":{"left":0.120969,"top":0.268286,"width":0.124864,"height":0.02007399999999998}},{"text":"In his theoretical writings on the development of American Modern Dance in the 1930s, the \n American dance critic, John Martin, re-invoked the Ancient Greek construct of ‘metakinesis’","bbox":{"left":0.120969,"top":0.298461,"width":0.7466820000000001,"height":0.03933000000000003}},{"text":"to explain the process by which performing and watching Modern Dance in particular, \n becomes a unified experience. In the late 20th Century, neuro-scientists in Europe \n discovered that areas of the brain activated when watching actions performed were the","bbox":{"left":0.120969,"top":0.345776,"width":0.713658,"height":0.06305300000000003}},{"text":"same as those used when performing the movement. These neurons, which became termed \n ‘mirror neurons’, have also been connected to a likely engagement with the emotions and","bbox":{"left":0.120969,"top":0.416815,"width":0.75302,"height":0.039281999999999984}},{"text":"intentions inherent within movement. There have been a number of recent science-arts \n initiatives where collaborations between neuro-scientists and dancers are extending","bbox":{"left":0.120969,"top":0.464118,"width":0.725263,"height":0.039293999999999996}},{"text":"knowledge in both dance practice and scientific knowledge, but to date the genuine","bbox":{"left":0.120969,"top":0.511398,"width":0.68238,"height":0.015773000000000037}},{"text":"convergence of creative and scientific endpoints has rarely been achieved.","bbox":{"left":0.120969,"top":0.535156,"width":0.605734,"height":0.015773000000000037}},{"text":"This extended essay provides an overview and starting point for predominantly new territory \n in science-art development, and raises key questions for further investigation. Through","bbox":{"left":0.120969,"top":0.582436,"width":0.755229,"height":0.03933000000000009}},{"text":"interviewing dance professionals, I have gauged to what extent the dance profession is","bbox":{"left":0.120969,"top":0.629751,"width":0.711477,"height":0.015773000000000037}},{"text":"aware of, and imaginatively poised to exploit, developments in neuroscience around the \n specific relationship between the mover and the watcher. I aim to show that mirror neuron","bbox":{"left":0.120969,"top":0.65351,"width":0.7536790000000001,"height":0.03928200000000004}},{"text":"science provides a brain basis for the concept of metakinesis, and that this science could be \n highly relevant to the development of our understanding and appreciation of dance in","bbox":{"left":0.120969,"top":0.700778,"width":0.748169,"height":0.03932900000000006}},{"text":"Western society. I propose that whilst the arts generally and dance in particular, have a \n marginalised place in society, the development of knowledge of mirror neurons as a","bbox":{"left":0.120969,"top":0.748093,"width":0.715257,"height":0.03929400000000005}},{"text":"concept, from specialist discipline to a more mainstream consciousness, has the potential to","bbox":{"left":0.120969,"top":0.795373,"width":0.7495040000000001,"height":0.015773000000000037}},{"text":"create a significant shift . I identify a number of areas within the development of dance \n practice where the integration of mirror neuron science could, through a deeper","bbox":{"left":0.120969,"top":0.819131,"width":0.712494,"height":0.03929399999999994}},{"text":"understanding of the integrated brain functions of observing and performing movement, \n bring future benefits.","bbox":{"left":0.120969,"top":0.866446,"width":0.72045,"height":0.03928900000000002}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}