Improvising memory and cognition:

Enacting embodied knowledge through dance.

This research explores how embodied memory and embodied cognition emerge and operate through solo dance improvisation. Rooted in a Practice-as-Research (PaR) methodology, the study investigates how movement arises not from pre-planned choreography or explicit mental instruction, but through the body’s interaction with memory, perception, and lived sensory experience. Rather than merely contrasting theory and practice, the project positions improvisation as a cognitive process in motion, a method for generating knowledge through embodied engagement. My research seeks to understand how the body remembers and thinks in motion, and how improvisation can serve as a method for accessing and reshaping embodied knowledge.