# behav: emergent togetherness in collaborative dance improvisation.

<< ️Collective improvisation in dance provides a rich natural laboratory for studying emergent coordination in coupled neuro-motor systems. Here, (AA) investigate how training shapes spontaneous synchronization patterns in both movement and brain signals during collaborative performance. >>

<< ️Results indicate that training produced an intriguing dissociation: inter-brain synchronization increased, particularly within the frontal lobe, while interpersonal motor synchrony decreased. This opposite trend suggests that enhanced participatory sense-making fosters neural alignment while simultaneously expanding individual motor explorations, thereby reducing coupling in movement. >>

<< ️(Their) findings position collaborative improvisation as a complex dynamical regime in which togetherness emerges not from identical motor outputs but from shared neural intentionality distributed across multilayer interaction networks, exemplifying the coupling-decoupling paradox, whereby increasing inter-brain synchrony supports the exploration of broader and mutually divergent motor trajectories. These results highlight the nonlinear nature of social coordination, offering new avenues for modeling creative joint action in human systems. >>

Yago Emanoel Ramos, Raphael Silva do Rosário, Adriana de Faria Gehres, 

et al. Emergent togetherness in collaborative dance improvisation: neural and motor synchronization reveal a coupling-decoupling paradox. arXiv: 2601.03478v1 [q-bio.NC]. Jan 7, 2026.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03478

Also: dance, behav, brain, in https://www.inkgmr.net/kwrds.html 

Keywords: behavior, dance, generative dance, social coordination, collective improvisation, brain functional networks, coupled neuro-motor systems, coupling-decoupling paradox.