This book is about joint intelligence in action. It brings together
scholarship in performance studies, cognitive science, sociology,
literature, anthropology, psychology, architecture, philosophy and sport
science to ask how tightly knit collaboration works. Contributors apply
innovative methodologies to detailed case studies of martial arts,
social interaction, freediving, site-specific artworks, Body Weather,
human-AI music composition, Front-of-House at Shakespeare's Globe,
acrobatics and failing at handstands. In each investigation, performance
and theory are mutually revealing, informative and captivating.
Short chapters fall into thematic clusters exploring complex ecologies
of skill, collaborative learning and the microstructure of embodied
coordination, followed by commentaries from leading scholars in
performance studies and cognitive science. Each contribution highlights
unique features of the performance ecology, equipping performance
makers, students and researchers with the theoretical, methodological
and practical inspiration to delve deeper into their own embodied
practices and critical thinking.
