Designing Dance for Museums: Using Diagrammatic Transcripts to Analyze Embodied Interactions in an Informal Learning Environment

Abstract

This Design Based Research Project positions dance and the body as resources for learning in a contemporary art museum and proposes the use of diagrammatic transcripts as one element of a multimodal analysis of embodied learning. Undergraduates learning to become museum docents participated in one, 90-minute dance workshop in an art gallery designed to promote movement-based reflection tools. Diagrammatic transcripts added depth to video analysis of moving bodies in an informal learning environment.