MDPE.21:4.1 - Selecting an architecture for local Zouk recurrence
A local project wants unfamiliar partners to reproduce a changed timing and partner-response distinction in social Dance Work. Current classes teach fixed sequences with familiar partners, and the event rewards a polished showcase. Two architecture candidates change different relations:
| Candidate architecture | Constituent Methods and Systems | Proposed or observed relations relevant to recurrence |
|---|---|---|
| Choreography-and-showcase | A choreographer fixes phrases; teachers reproduce them; familiar pairs rehearse; a camera and event present the result. | In this unselected candidate, the phrase description or video would be used by teachers in teaching Work; familiar pairs would perform repeated-pair rehearsal Work; and event selectors would use camera-facing observations when choosing showcase material. These are proposed relations, not claims that they currently obtain or cause recurrence. |
| Partnered-recurrence | Teachers use embodied capability tasks and cue-response exercises; dancers rotate partners and music; observers watch supervised social Work; teachers revise tasks and variants. | The selected trial requires teachers to use capability tasks in teaching Work, rotating pairs to perform cue-response Dance Work with changed partners and music, and named observers to report observations of that social Work. It proposes that teachers later use those reports when revising tasks and variants. These are trial requirements and proposed later-use relations; observation during and after the trial establishes which ones obtained. The project tests whether the arrangement supports recurrence with unfamiliar partners; causal contribution remains a trial hypothesis. |
The project selects the partnered-recurrence architecture because the waiting decision concerns social use with unfamiliar partners. The choreography-and-showcase row remains an unselected proposal. The selected architecture is also a trial hypothesis: the project has not yet established that its teaching, partner-rotation, observation, or later-use relations cause recurrence. The selected first change is a six-week rotating-partner and varied-music teaching trial, followed by supervised social Work. Observers record readable response, balance, recovery, refusal, and whether the intended timing survives. Failure returns to the capability or cue relation; success supports only the local architecture decision, not wider Zouk recognition or retention.