Robyn Landau (Kinda Studios) and Hennie Lee (NeuroLive)

Saturday 16th November
3.30–5pm

This interactive workshop, designed for dancers, movement practitioners, aspiring researchers, and interdisciplinary technologists, will delve into the latest neuroscience behind movement, perception, and embodied cognition. Participants will explore cutting-edge technologies that are revealing new insights into these fields and learn how to apply them in practical, interactive ways. The workshop aims to inspire fresh ideas and broaden perspectives by deepening our understanding of how neurophysiology shapes and is shaped by our movements. Additionally, it will highlight how neurotechnology can foster new collaborations between artists and researchers across disciplines, and open the required provocations and questions for our developing collective practice. How can we build deeper collaborations and what questions do we need to ask to bridge the gaps, increase access and deepen impact?

The workshop will include:

• An overview into the human brain, body in action/motion
• Pull focus on embodied cognition, somaesthetics, mirror neurons, and visual perception
• Highlight the latest research in the neuroscience of dance including the 4-year Neurolive Research project
• Bring in examples of neuroscience/dance collaborations and the metrics used
• Showcase through an interactive demo mobile EEG and biosensors and their metrics
• Open a conversation about how deeper collaborations can drive richer experiences and showcase the deeply rooted impact of them across diverse groups. How movement practitioners might collaborate with researchers and technologists and the pressing questions we need to answer to drive meaningful impact and broaden the reach of the discipline.