ABSTRACT

Background

Long-form dramatic improvisation has been investigated as an accomplishment of emergent creativity among an ensemble of “players,” focusing on how the group achieves “group flow” in performance.

Methods

This article employs ethnographic methods (focus group, interviews, and video-assisted self-interviews) to investigate the case of a musical theater improv group. The analysis focuses on how the group describes its shared modes of knowing, drawing on the group’s history and their interpreted enactment of these modes in an improvised scene.

Findings

Improvisation in this group requires two inter-related forms of knowing: Shared Social Practice (SSP) and Collaborative Affective Attunement (CAA), where SSP involves definable repertoires, resources, conventions, and techniques, and CAA involves affective sensibility of in-the-moment responding, or affective attunement. These two forms of knowing develop over the course of a group’s history and are entangled in complex ways over the course of performance.

Contribution

Through a case study of a musical theater improv ensemble, the paper contributes to ongoing efforts to theorize the relationship between embodied experience, social practice, and affect in group knowing with special consideration for the significant role of collaborative affective attunement.

中文翻译：

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“我们在解读彼此的能量方面变得更加出色”：作为即兴合奏团的认知、行动和协调

摘要

背景

长篇戏剧即兴创作被视为“参与者”群体中涌现创造力的成就，重点关注团队如何在表演中实现“群体流动”。

方法

本文采用人种学方法（焦点小组、访谈和视频辅助自访谈）来调查音乐剧即兴表演小组的案例。分析的重点是该群体如何描述其共享的认知模式，利用该群体的历史以及他们在即兴场景中对这些模式的解释制定。

发现

这个群体中的即兴创作需要两种相互关联的认知形式：共享社会实践（SSP）和协作情感协调（CAA），其中SSP涉及可定义的曲目、资源、惯例和技术，而CAA涉及对现实的情感敏感性。瞬间反应，或情感协调。这两种形式的认知随着群体的历史进程而发展，并在表现过程中以复杂的方式纠缠在一起。

贡献

通过对音乐剧即兴合奏团的案例研究，本文有助于对群体认知中的具体体验、社会实践和情感之间的关系进行理论化，并特别考虑到协作情感协调的重要作用。