Coordinated Collaboration and Nonverbal Social Interactions: A Formal and Functional Analysis of Gaze, Gestures, and Other Body Movements in a Contemporary Dance Improvisation Performance.

This study presents a microanalysis of what information performers "give" and "give off" to each other via their bodies during a contemporary dance improvisation. We compare what expert performers and non-performers (sufficiently trained to successfully perform) do with their bodies during a silent,...

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Publicado en:Journal of Nonverbal Behavior Vol. 43; no. 4; pp. 451 - 480
Autores principales: Evola, Vito, Skubisz, Joanna
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Dec2019
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        Cognition
        Dance
        Exercise
        Interprofessional relations
        Nonverbal communication
        Body language
        Social skills
        Psychosocial factors
        Quantitative research
        Arm physiology
        Leg physiology
        Head physiology
        Entertainers
        Postural balance
        Eye movements
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          Quantitative research
          Independent actors, comedians and performers
          Independent Artists, Writers, and Performers
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          Head physiology
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      ab: This study presents a microanalysis of what information performers "give" and "give off" to each other via their bodies during a contemporary dance improvisation. We compare what expert performers and non-performers (sufficiently trained to successfully perform) do with their bodies during a silent, multiparty improvisation exercise, in order to identify any differences and to provide insight into nonverbal communication in a less conventional setting. The coordinated collaboration of the participants (two groups of six) was examined in a frame-by-frame analysis focusing on all body movements, including gaze shifts as well as the formal and functional movement units produced in the head–face, upper-, and lower-body regions. The Methods section describes in detail the annotation process and inter-rater agreement. The results of this study indicate that expert performers during the improvisation are in "performance mode" and have embodied other social cognitive strategies and skills (e.g., endogenous orienting, gaze avoidance, greater motor control) that the non-performers do not have available. Expert performers avoid using intentional communication, relying on information to be inferentially communicated in order to coordinate collaboratively, with silence and stillness being construed as meaningful in that social practice and context. The information that expert performers produce is quantitatively less (i.e., producing fewer body movements) and qualitatively more inferential than intentional compared to a control group of non-performers, which affects the quality of the performance.
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