The strength of creative ties: social networks of a dance rehearsal

This paper formalizes the activity patterns of a neoclassical dance company. The aim is to begin a reticular representation of creativity, paraphrasing Simmel and his reticular theory of social control. Ethnographical works on two dance rehearsals inform our explanation of the dancers decision-making, a habitus that is shaped by local and social interaction. Dancers look, talk and relate to each other in a distributed cognition network. A centrality analysis, together with the creation of cliques and simmelian ties, crystallize in a multiplicity of roles and dancers affiliations.