Sarco-Thomas, Malaika2019-07-052019-07-052013-10-01Sarco-Thomas, M. (2013). Excitable Tissues in motion capture practices: the improvising dancer as technogenetic imagist. Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices, 5(1), 81-93.1757-187110.1386/jdsp.5.1.81_1http://hdl.handle.net/10034/622402This article outlines the potential of dance improvisation practice to function as a technological interface with one’s environment, drawing parallels between the performances of Twig Dances (Sarco-Thomas 2010) and technologies used in the life sciences to map living matter onto still frames. A postphenomenological approach is used to compare improvisation scores with image-making technologies. Scores that invite corporeal responses to the non-human, and kinaesthetic responses to organic matter, are highlighted as technologies which stand further exploration and examination as they mediate our experience of the world. A diversifying field of somatic practices is proposed as a means to investigate the potential knowledges generated by ‘excitable tissues’ enlivened through improvisational practices.enAttribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/imaging technologiesimprovisationsomaticsdance performancetechnogenesisperceptionpostphenomenologyArticle1757-188XJournal of Dance & Somatic Practices