Acknowledgements List of Figures 1. Introduction: Performance Generating Systems in Dance Conceptualizing and researching performance generating systemsThree analytical and dramaturgical frameworks in application - Dramaturgy - Psychology - Performativity PART ONE: DRAMATURGY 2. The Dramaturgical Agency of Performance Generating Systems Developments in dramaturgical agencyDepartures from choreographyDifferences from improvisationConcepts of memory at workMemory and agency in performance generating systems 3. Analyzing and Notating Performance Generating Dramaturgies as Dynamical Systems Notation challengesDynamical Systems TheoryDST-based tools of analysis and notation 4. Recycled Choreographic Memory in relay: Henderson Futuring memoryThe dynamics of futuring memoryEthics of affecting memory PART TWO: PSYCHOLOGY 5. The Cognitive Demands and Learning Effects of Performance Generating Systems The emergence of dance psychologyNotes on methodologyAn earned presence - Kinaesthetic perception and perceptual integration - Recalling and perceiving through memory - Constraints and distributed, extended cognition - Implicit and explicit learning - Disrupting and manipulating implicit processes - Unlearning and recalibrating perception 6. Learning in Whole in the Head: Forsythe Improvisation Technologies: imaging movement modalitiesBuilding an ensemble: collective memory and skill developmentOpening the near closed ‘soft clock’ - Generating components within narrow boundaries - Self-organizing dynamics and the attractor of emergent performer agencyClosing the near open ‘supernova’ - Expanded generating components and exploded boundaries - The self-organizing attractor of ensemble memory and agencyLearning WitH an ensemble 7. Unlearning in I’ll Crane for You: Hay through House Testing the boundaries of performance generating systems with Hay through HouseGenerating components - Practice - Adapting performer - Score - Agreement - TransferabilityLearning to unlearn PART THREE: PERFORMATIVITY 8. Affecting the (Im)possibility of Change: Performativity and Trauma Moving from dramaturgy and psychology through performativityPerformativity: discursivePerformativity: posthumanPotential of change in performance generating systems: phase transitions(Un)changeable conditions: traumaPerformative Agency  9. Transition from Dissociation to Intimacy in Crave: Kaeja Craving touch: sourcing dissociationCreating ‘touch’Safety through transferPhase transition towards relational, performative agency Process strategies  10. Environmental Entanglement in the Dance Machine: Lee Querying belonging: sourcing displacementA simple dance: devising a consensual feedback system Generating components and phase transition: listening to collective/environmental interaction - Transitions from hesitant/unconnected performance to engagement  - Immersive rest and robust forms of creative engagement  - Invited forms of collaborative engagement Performative strategies  11. Conclusion: Affecting Agency, Learning, and Change through Performance Generating Systems The conceptualization of performance generating systemsDramaturgical, psychological, and performative case insights The combined theoretical frameworks and their future application  Appendix: Methodological Negotiations Bibliography Index

'Going beyond the typical theoretical constructs of choreography and improvisation, Pil Hansen’s book indulges in the inventive components of creating dance productions utilizing performance generating systems. What could be overly abstract is grounded in concrete definitions that guide the reader toward an understanding of the included theories and possible applications.[...] This text is well suited for a graduate-level dance studies seminar involving practical application of creation methods [...] In addition to graduate study, Hansen’s book is a wonderful source of thoughtful queries, ideas, and experiential knowledge that would benefit any dance educator guiding students in maintaining and deepening curiosity and explorative actions.'