Nine Ways of Seeing a Body

Author: Sandra Reeve
Publisher: Triarchy Press
ISBN: 1908009950
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Book Description
This book presents nine lenses through which the body is conventionally viewed. The body as object, the body as subject, the phenomenological body, the contextual body, the interdependent body, the environmental body, the cultural body and, finally, the ecological body. Designed to be a guide and stimulus for teachers, students and practitioners of dance, performance, movement, somatics and the arts therapies - and for anyone troubled by the idea of a brain on legs.

Attending to Movement

Author: Sarah Whatley
Publisher: Triarchy Press
ISBN: 1909470643
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 577

Book Description
Somatics, Movement and Embodiment * What does it actually mean to embody an idea or an action? * What has somatic practice to offer the teaching and development of modern dance? * How can an investigation of our embodied movement open up the possibility of making new choices - on an individual, social, cultural or political level? * How can somatic practice be used to open up intercultural dialogue? * How can embodied art exist alongside social and religious practice?

Nine Ways to Cross a River

Author: Akiko Busch
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1596917342
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
From Thoreau to Edward Abbey to Annie Dillard, American writers have looked at nature and described the sublime and transcendent. Now comes Akiko Busch, who finds multitudes of meaning in the practice of swimming across rivers. The notion that rivers divide us is old and venerated, but they also limn our identities and mark the passage of time; they anchor communities and connect one to another. And, in the hands of writer and swimmer Akiko Busch, they are living archives of human behavior and natural changes. After a transformative swim across the Hudson just before September 11, Busch undertook to explore eight of America's great waterways: the Hudson (twice), the Delaware, the Connecticut, the Susquehanna, the Monongahela, the Mississippi, the Ohio, and the Current. She observes each river's goings-on and reflects on its history (human and natural) and possible futures. Some of the rivers have rebounded from past industrial misuse; others still struggle with pollution and waste. The swims are also opportunities to muse on the ordinary passages faced by most of us-the death of a parent, raising children, becoming older-and the ways in which the rhythms and patterns of the natural world can offer reassurance, ballast and inspiration. A deeply moving exploration of the themes of renewal and reclamation at midlife, Nine Ways to Cross a River is a book to be treasured and given to friends.

Ways to Wander

Author: Claire Hind
Publisher: Triarchy Press
ISBN: 1909470740
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 80

Book Description
54 intriguing ideas for different ways to take a walk - for enthusiasts, practitioners, students and academics.

Embodied Lives

Author: Katya Bloom
Publisher: Triarchy Press
ISBN: 1909470562
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
30 movement performers, therapists, artists, teachers and colleagues from around the world describe the impact of Prapto's Amerta Movement on their lives and work.

Wisdom of Not-Knowing

Author: Bob Chisholm
Publisher: Triarchy Press
ISBN: 1909470937
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 184

Book Description
These essays, most by practising psychotherapists, some of them Buddhists, take as their starting point the idea that not-knowing is fundamental to conscious reflection and the desire to know must always arise in the first instance from the self-awareness of not-knowing.

Undisciplining Dance in Nine Movements and Eight Stumbles

Author: Carol Brown
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527522385
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 297

Book Description
If much of what we teach and come to know from within the disciplinary regime of Dance Studies is founded on a certain kind of mastery, what scope is there to challenge, criticize and undo this knowledge from within the academy, as well as through productive encounters with its margins? This volume contributes to a growing discourse on the potential of dance and dancers to affect change, politics and situational awareness, as well as to traverse disciplinary boundaries. It ‘undisciplines’ academic thinking through its organisation into ‘movements’ and ‘stumbles’, reinforcing its theme through its structure as well as its content, addressing contemporary dance and performance practices and pedagogies from a range of research perspectives and registers. Turbulent and vertiginous events on the world stage necessitate new ways of thinking and acting. This book makes strides towards a new kind of research which creates alternative modes for perceiving, experiencing and making. Through writings and images, its contributions offer different perspectives on how to rethink disciplinarity through choreographic practices, somatics, a reimagining of dance techniques, indigenous ontologies, choreopolitics, critical dance pedagogies and visual performance languages.

Ways to Wander the Gallery

Author: Claire Hind
Publisher: Triarchy Press
ISBN: 191119352X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 112

Book Description
25 intriguing ideas for different ways to walk in and beyond an art gallery - for gallery-goers, walkers, performance artists, students and academics.

Body and Performance

Author: Sandra Reeve
Publisher: Triarchy Press
ISBN: 190947018X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 186

Book Description
12 contemporary approaches to the human body that are being used by performers or in the context of performance training.

Sufi Women, Embodiment, and the ‘Self’

Author: Jamila Rodrigues
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000833410
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 145

Book Description
This book is an ethnographic case study of Sufi ritual practice and embodied experience amongst female members of the Naqshbandi community. Drawing on fieldwork in Cape Town, South Africa, and Lefke, Cyprus (2013/2014), the author examines women’s experiences within a particular performance of Sufi tradition. The focus is on the ritual named hadra, involving the recital of sacred texts, music, and body movement, where the goal is for the individual to reach a state of intimacy with God. The volume considers Sufi practice as a form of embodied cultural behavior, religious identity, and selfhood construction. It explains how Muslim women’s participation in hadra ritual life reflects religious and cultural ideas about the body, the body’s movement, and embodied selfhood expression within the ritual experience. Sufi Women, Ritual Embodiment and the ‘Self’ engages with studies in Sufism, symbolic anthropology, ethnography, dance, and somatic studies. Contributing to discussions of religion, gender, and the body, the book will be of interest to scholars from anthropology, sociology, religious ritual studies, Sufism and gender studies, and performance studies.