Re-tracing the encounter: interkinaesthetic forms of knowledge in Contact Improvisation
Sarah Pini, Doris J. F. McIlwain, John David Sutton · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) · 2016
We adopted a phenomenological approach, directly engaging with the community of practice of the form of movement under study. We discuss some methodological approaches that we considered in investigating the lived experience of a heterogeneous group of Contact Improvisation (CI) practitioners. We delineate how such a system of movement could provide a unique example for the analysis of the interpersonal dynamics between movers with a different degree of expertise, re-tracing some common paths towards the acquisition of interkinaesthetic knowledge.