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SIF and Dance

The right dance therefore does not need to be “determined” in advance. There is no fully specified end-result on the basis of which the dance is realized. On the contrary, the dance is realized in practice because it is getting increasingly determined or developed within the landscape of affordances. The process of dancing can even have the determining, directed, character of nesting affordance for the dancers, because they are in the process of enacting a satisfying dance.

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The right design therefore does not need to be “determined” in advance. There is no fully specified picture or description of the end result on the basis of which the design is realized. On the contrary, the design is realized in practice because it is getting increasingly determined or developed in acting within the landscape of affordances. The process of designing the sculpture can even have the determining, directed, character of nesting affordance for the architects, because they are in the process of enacting a satisfying design.

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Foregrounding Sociomaterial Practice in Our Understanding of Affordances: The Skilled Intentionality Framework

van Dijk L and Rietveld E (2017) Foregrounding Sociomaterial Practice in Our Understanding of Affordances:

The Skilled Intentionality Framework. Front. Psychol. 7:1969.

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Affordance

The affordances in the moment for an improvising dancer, however, has to be measured relative to the dancer. They are unique for that dancer. They are not just abstract physical properties. They have a unity relative to the posture in the moment as well as the training, fitness, habits, and aesthetic interests of the dancer being considered. So affordance in dance cannot be measured as we measure in physics.

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As an affordance of support for a species of animal, however, they have to be measured relative to the animal. They are unique for that animal. They are not just abstract physical properties. They have unity relative to the posture and behavior of the animal being considered. So an affordance cannot be measured as we measure in physics.

– The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception, J.J. Gibson 2014, p 120

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Dancers are Process Philosophers

activity over substance
process over product
change over persistence
novelty over continuity

A process philosopher, then, is someone for whom such processes are metaphysically pivotal, someone for whom temporality, activity, and change of alteration, striving, passage, and novelty emergence are the ontologically, or at least hermeneutically, most salient dimension of the real.

– Nicholas Rescher, Process Metaphysics, An Introduction to Process Philosophy

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a specific art

Dance is indeed, as Wass holds, a specific art, but not because of some single element unique to it; rather, it is specific in its functional ensemble, an ensemble that is, inevitably, organized around movement and the application of movement.

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Painting is indeed, as Greenberg held, a specific art, but not because of some single element unique to it; rather, it is specific in its functional ensemble, an ensemble that is, inevitably, organized around paint and the application of paint.

–  Henry Staten, Techne Theory: A New Language for Art