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Falling Through Dance and Life (Hardcover)
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Falling Through Dance and Life (Hardcover)
Series: Dance in Dialogue
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This is a book about falling as a means of reconfiguring our
relationship with living and dying. Dancer, choreographer, educator
and therapist Emilyn Claid draws inspiration from her personal and
professional experiences to explore alternative approaches to being
present in the world. Contemporary movement based performers ground
their practices in understanding the interplay of gravity and the
body. Somatic intentional falling provides them a creative resource
for developing both self and environmental support. The physical,
metaphorical and psychological impact of these practices informs
the theories and perspectives presented in this book. As falling
can be dangerous and painful, encouraging people to do so willingly
might be considered a provocative premise. Western culture
generally resists falling because it provokes fear and represents
failure. Out of this tension a paradox emerges: falling, we are
both powerless subjects and agents of change, a dynamic distinction
that enlivens discussions throughout the writing. Emilyn engages
with different dance genres, live performance and therapeutic
interactions to form her ideas and interlaces her arguments with
issues of gender and race. She describes how surrender to gravity
can transform our perceptions and facilitate ways of being that are
relational and life enhancing. Woven throughout, autobiographical,
poetic, philosophical, descriptive and theoretical voices combine
to question the fixation of Western culture on uprightness and
supremacy. A simple act of falling builds momentum through eclectic
discussions, uncovering connections to shame, laughter, trauma,
ageing and the thrill of release.
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