ABSTRACT
This chapter concentrates on issues of collaboration between the arts and sciences, with special reference to Choreography and Cognition, a joint research project (see https://www.choreocog.net) initiated by arts researcher Scott deLahunta and choreographer Wayne McGregor that engaged practitioners from the field of cognitive science in seeking connections between creativity, choreography and the scientific study of movement and the mind. First, deLahunta describes briefly how initial ideas evolved into a six-month research project involving several cognitive scientists and the support of an Arts and Science Research fund.1 There follows discussion about why a choreographer and a cognitive scientist might be interested in each other and in structured collaboration. Cognitive scientist Phil Barnard explains the background and one of the resulting experiments that took place and proposes further mutually beneficial research. In the final section, Wayne McGregor details his experience of working with cognitive scientists on Choreography and Cognition, which inspired the creation of AtaXia (2004) and motivated future plans.
