Synergy dynamics can be cooperative, or lead to one-sided “wins”. Here our illustrated analysis of a Tai Chi push hands interaction, where Tai Chi expert Hella Ebel lures her push partner into overstepping and falling over.
We recently had the delight to publish with some of the best, in Kath Bicknell‘s and John Sutton‘s edited volume Collaborative Embodied Performance: Ecologies of Skill.
Publication: Kimmel, M., & Schneider, S. (2022). Intercorporeal synergy practices – perspectives from expert interaction. In K. Bicknell & J. Sutton (Eds.). Collaborative Embodied Performance: Ecologies of Skill (pp. 187–206). London,: Methuen Drama. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350197725.ch-010
Intercorporeal Synergy Practices