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The Natural Body in Somatics Dance Training (Hardcover)
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The Natural Body in Somatics Dance Training (Hardcover)
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From its beginnings as an alternative and dissident form of dance
training in the 1960s, Somatics emerged at the end of the twentieth
century as one of the most popular and widespread regimens used to
educate dancers. It is now found in dance curricula worldwide,
helping to shape the look and sensibilities of both dancers and
choreographers and thereby influencing much of the dance we see
onstage worldwide. One of the first books to examine Somatics in
detail and to analyse how and what it teaches in the dance studio,
The Natural Body in Somatics Dance Training considers how dancers
discover and assimilate new ways of moving and also larger cultural
values associated with those movements. The book traces the history
of Somatics, and it also details how Somatics developed in
different locales, engaging with local politics and dance histories
so as to develop a distinctive pedagogy that nonetheless shared
fundamental concepts with other national and regional contexts. In
so doing it shows how dance training can inculcate an embodied
politics by guiding and shaping the experience of bodily sensation,
constructing forms of reflexive evaluation of bodily action, and
summoning bodies into relationship with one another. Throughout,
the author focuses on the concept of the natural body and the
importance of a natural way of moving as central to the claims that
Somatics makes concerning its efficacy and legitimacy.
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