Exploring the embodied subtleties of collaborative creativity: What organisations can learn from dance

This study illustrates the value of embodied subtleties in process collaborative creativity. Drawing on a sensory ethnography two dance productions, we illustrate fine-grained ways which professional dancers negotiate creative processes behind scenes. We identify three aspects through creativity emerges from bodily subtleties: (1) moving beyond individual bodies towards collective ambitions, (2) relating to colleagues’ micro-gestures and nuances, (3) role ‘serious play’ between setting scene for first occur. The findings will contribute our understanding practice creativity, treat as not only mental but also highly intimate practice. conclude that appreciating micro-dynamics oneself one’s colleagues is crucial collaboration, increasingly necessary management learning contemporary organisations.