Abstract This paper analyzes the relational and cooperative labor of a corps de ballet. In particular, attention is called to the ways the dancers’ embodied knowledge and decision-making processes constitute a vital part of a production’s impact. Two key aspects of dancers’ performances as a corps de ballet are collaboration and cooperation, which are components of eusociality, a term used to describe the highest level of organization of sociality, commonly observed in honeybees. Through embodied experiences and attention to dancers’ decision-making, we find a corps de ballet operates in ways that are similar to democratic decision-making processes in honeybee behaviors.

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合作、交流和协作：芭蕾舞团的社会性

摘要 本文分析了芭蕾舞团的关系劳动和合作劳动。尤其要注意舞者的具体知识和决策过程如何构成作品影响的重要部分。作为芭蕾舞团的舞者表演的两个关键方面是协作和合作，它们是真社会性的组成部分，这是一个用来描述最高水平的社会性组织的术语，常见于蜜蜂。通过具体的经验和对舞者决策的关注，我们发现芭蕾舞团的运作方式类似于蜜蜂行为中的民主决策过程。