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Every body-mind evolves in collaboration with its environment—we continually draw on this negotiation to construct our sense of ourselves. Dance improvisation enhances our capacity to be affected by space, time, and other bodies. It is a microcosm of heightened perception in which to perform these negotiated selves. My ongoing relationship with dance improvisation has given rise to a physical cognizance of emerging ideas about complexity and the biology of consciousness. By engaging with current theories in neuroscience using the tools of dance improvisation, we become apperceptive of thoughts, memories, and acts of self-construction as distinct events, thereby gaining new awareness about how our bodies give rise to our minds.

Offered as an interdisciplinary course in conjunction with the Embodied Learning Symposium at Marlboro College, Vermont (USA), Spring 2011.