Alternative Title
Active inference
Publication Date
2018
Document Type
Honors Project
Degree Name
Honors
Department
Dance
Advisors
Chris Aiken
Keywords
Dance, Movement therapy, choreography, Neuroscience, prediction, Huntington's disease
Abstract
Active Inference, a term coined by Karl Friston, describes the anticipation of action and error prediction within the neuro-philosophical model of Predictive Processing. The musician and dancers work together to create a live auditory landscape usingboards equipped with contact microphones.
Chorography: Aubrey Johnson in collaboration with the dancers
Performance: Julia Antinozzi, Serena Anne Cattau, Emma Humphries, Lindsey Johnston, Molly McGehee, Xela Miller, Em Papineau, Grace Privett-Mendoza, Delphine Zhu
Music: Amid Calculation (Live) by Marcus Dembinski
Lighting design: Priscilla Yichen Zhou; costume design: Cora Grant
Note: This project is a video of choreography and performance
Rights
©2018 Aubrey Sperling Johnson. Access limited to the Smith College community and other researchers while on campus. Smith College community members also may access from off-campus using a Smith College log-in. Other off-campus researchers may request a copy through Interlibrary Loan for personal use.
Recommended Citation
Johnson, Aubrey Sperling, "A treatment for Huntington's disease : ǂb dance movement therapy through the lens of predictive processing and Choreographic analysis of Active inference" (2018). Honors Project, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/dan_etd/3
Program
Comments
51 pages : illustrations (some color). Includes bibliographical references (pages 50-51)
The video is of choreography and performance. It is part of the Senior concert: "The act of waiting/"