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Beyond Utterances: Embodied Creativity and Compliance in Dance and Dementia

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  • An Kosurko

    (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland)

  • Melisa Stevanovic

    (Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, 33100 Tampere, Finland)

Abstract

Practices of creativity and compliance intersect in interaction when directing local dances remotely for people living with dementia and their carers in institutional settings. This ethnomethodological study focused on how artistic mechanisms are understood and structured by participants in response to on-screen instruction. Video data were collected from two long-term care facilities in Canada and Finland in a pilot study of a dance program that extended internationally from Canada to Finland at the onset of COVID-19. Fourteen hours of video data were analyzed using multimodal conversation analysis of initiation–response sequences. In this paper, we identify how creative instructed actions are produced in compliance with multimodal directives in interaction when mediated by technology and facilitated by copresent facilitators. We provide examples of how participants’ variably compliant responses in relation to dance instruction, from following a lead to coordinating with others, produce different creative actions from embellishing to improvising. Our findings suggest that cocreativity may be realized at intersections of compliance and creativity toward reciprocity. This research contributes to interdisciplinary discussions about the potential of arts-based practices in social inclusion, health, and well-being by studying how dance instruction is understood and realized remotely and in copresence in embodied instructed action and interaction.

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  • An Kosurko & Melisa Stevanovic, 2023. "Beyond Utterances: Embodied Creativity and Compliance in Dance and Dementia," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 12(5), pages 1-21, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:12:y:2023:i:5:p:304-:d:1149436
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