Anybody can move their body around and create a sort of dance. And anybody can sit down at a piano keyboard and start banging out a crude sort of music.<\/p>\n
But there are also people we recognize as expert dancers, and people we recognize as expert pianists. I am intrigued by the parallels.<\/p>\n
Is it possible that the path from “look, I am moving my body around” to serious dance has formal parallels to the path from unschooled noodling on a keyboard to concert level musicianship? Despite the fact that these two media are vastly different, is it possible that their respective learning curves possess a similar structure?<\/p>\n
What are the intermediate steps along the way from naive performance to superb mastery? Do all students travel a similar path? Is there always some recognizable half-way point along any such journey?<\/p>\n
By comparing very different performance media, and seeing how people progress from beginner to expert in each one, we may gain insights into the process of learning itself — insights that may generalize to future forms of expression yet to discovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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