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This anthology negotiates the influential, yet silent educational
presence of spiritualities within the field of somatic movement
dance education internationally. The expressive and integral nature
of spiritual experience remains academically undefined and
peripheral to our understanding of creative practice. Lack of
theoretical rigour, as well as a lack of a substantive definitional
and methodological competency, has resulted in spirituality being
marginalised. To date, important questions about how diverse
spiritualities shape professional practice in the somatic movement
and dance arts remain unanswered. This cutting-edge collection
fills that void, providing greater creative and discursive clarity.
Western contemporary dance and body-mind education have engaged in
a "pas de deux" for more than four decades. The rich interchange of
somatics and dance has altered both fields, but scholarship that
substantiates these ideas through the findings of twentieth-century
scientific advances has been missing. This book fills that gap and
brings to light contemporary discoveries of neuroscience and
somatic education as they relate to dance. Drawing from the
burgeoning field of "embodiment"--itself an idea at the
intersection of the sciences, humanities, arts, and
technologies--"Body and Mind in Motion" highlights the relevance of
somatic education within dance education, dance science, and
body-mind studies.
This rich collection of essays and interviews explores modern-dance
technique training from the last fifty years. Focusing on the
culture of dance, editors Melanie Bales and Rebecca Nettl-Fiol
examine choreographic process and style, dancer agency and
participation in the creative process, and changes in the role and
purpose of training. Bringing recent writings on dance into
dialogue with dance practice, The Body Eclectic: Evolving Practices
in Dance Training asks readers to consider the relationship between
training practices and choreographic style and content. The
contributors explore how technique training both guides and
reflects the art of dance. Contributors include Melanie Bales,
Glenna Batson, Wendell Beavers, Veronica Dittman, Natalie Gilbert,
Joshua Monten, Martha Myers, and Rebecca Nettl-Fiol. Dance
professionals interviewed include David Dorfman, Ralph Lemon, Bebe
Miller, Tere O\u2019Connor, and Shelley Washington.
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