Performance Generating Systems in Dance: Dramaturgy, Psychology, and Performativity Hansen Pil

An interdisciplinary analysis of how performance-generating systems attract patterns of movement and why that affects dramaturgical agency, cognitive learning, and relational change.Performance-generating systems are systematic and task-based dramaturgy that generate performance for or with an audience. Dancers performing within these systems draw on predefined and limited sources while working on specific tasks within constraining rules. In dance, such systems differ in ways that matter from more closed choreographed scores and more open forms of structured improvisation.

The generating components of the systems provide boundaries that enable the performance to self-organize into iteratively shifting patterns instead of becoming repetitive or chaotic.This book identifies the generating components and dynamics of these works and the kinds of dramaturgical agency they