Music and dance can change our sense of time. They rely on synchronizing our movements with auditory events and with other people, both involve memory and anticipation for audiences and performers alike, and both facilitate moments of flow and pleasure. Performing Time captures the manifold facets of our experience of time in music and dance, from the perspectives of performers and audiences, informed by the most recent research in dance science, musicology, neuroscience, and psychology. It includes discussions of tempo and pacing, coordination and synchrony, performers’ experiences of time, audiences’ temporal expectations, slowness, and our individual versus collective senses of time. At its core, the volume addresses how time and temporality are modulated in music and dance, and how these experiences relate to current psychological and neuroscientific theories as well as to the aesthetic aims of composers, choreographers, and performers.

This book is included in DOAB.