Introduction: The Situated Intelligence of Collaborative Skills / John Sutton and Kath Bicknell -- Part I. Complex Ecologies of Embodied Collaboration. 1. Dropping like Flies: Skilled Coordination and Front-of-House at Shakespeare's Globe / Evelyn B. Tribble -- 2. On the Edge of Undoing: Ecologies of Agency in Body Weather / Sarah Pini -- 3. A Conversation on Collaborative Embodied Engagement in Making Art and Architecture: Going Beyond the Divide Between 'Lower' and 'Higher' Cognition / Janno Martens, Ronald Rietveld and Erik Rietveld -- Commentary: Redirecting Our Telescope, Amy Cook -- Part II: Learning, Collaboration, and Socially Scaffolded Cognition. 4. 'No Elephants Today!' Recurrent Experiences of Failure While Learning a Movement Practice / Kath Bicknell and Kristina Brümmer -- 5. Not Breathing Together: The Collaborative Development of Expert Apnea / Greg Downey -- 6. Cultivating One's Skills Through the Experienced Other in Aikido / Susanne Ravn -- 7. Musical Agency and Collaboration in the Digital Age / Tom Roberts and Joel Krueger -- Commentary: Embodied Learning Within Embodied Communities / Emily S. Cross -- Part III: Symmetry and Synergy in Embodied Coordination -- 8. Symmetries of Social Performance-Environment Systems / Rachel W. Kallen, Margaret Catherine Macpherson, Lynden K. Miles and Michael J. Richardson -- 9. Sing's Trap: Staging Low-Commitment Strategizing in Muay Thai / Sara Kim Hjortborg -- 10. Intercorporeal Synergy Practices - Perspectives from Expert Interaction, Michael Kimmel and Stefan Schneider -- Commentary: Mixing Methods in the Study of Human Action, Anthony Chemero -- Afterwords. Commentary: Ecologies of Acting and Enacting / Catherine J. Stevens -- Commentary: Betwixt and Between / Ian Maxwell

"This book is about joint intelligence in action. It brings together scholarship in performance studies, cognitive science, sociology, literature, anthropology, psychology, architecture, philosophy and sport science to ask how tightly knit collaboration works. Contributors apply innovative methodologies to detailed case studies of martial arts, social interaction, freediving, site-specific artworks, Body Weather, human-AI music composition, Front-of-House at Shakespeare's Globe, acrobatics and failing at handstands. In each investigation, performance and theory are mutually revealing, informative and captivating." -- Utgivarens hemsida.