Always in the Making offers a philosophy of improvisation forged from the lived problems of ensemble co-creativity.
Not merely theorizing improvisation from the outside, this book also writes from within it, blending vivid description, precise gestures, and lyric passages that distil its complexity. The analysis moves across nested levels of scale, mirroring the improvisation ensemble it studies. Close in, it philosophizes about action itself—asking where intention, reflection, and knowledge reside in the moment of moving, grounded in an embodied epistemology drawn from thirty years of practice-as-research in dance improvisation and Gallagher's 4E cognition. One level out, the improvising ensemble becomes a test case for Bratman's collective action theory and the science of self-organizing systems, revealing how autonomy and collectivity, individual acts and emergent group organization, work together. Further out still, Nguyen's game aesthetics and Born's social aesthetics relocate value and aesthetic experience in process and relation, examining how practices, identities, and institutions are entangled. 
This book will appeal to scholars and students of philosophy, dance and performance studies, aesthetics, and cognitive science, as well as improvising artists and practitioners studying embodiment, creativity, collective action, and selfhood as always in the making.