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.

Nine Ways to Cross a River

Author: Akiko Busch
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1596910453
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
The author of Geography of Home shares a series of meditations and reflections on her transformative swims across eight of America's great rivers--including the Delaware, Mississippi, Ohio, and twice across the Hudson--discussing their meaning in terms of the passages of life, natural and human history, and the inspirational rhythms of the natural world.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Researching Happiness

Author: Cieslik, Mark
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1529206162
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
In the past, happiness studies has been dominated by the work of philosophers, economists and psychologists, but more recently there has been a growing interest from social scientist into the natures of happiness and wellbeing. This original collection draws on the latest empirical research to explore the practical challenges facing happiness researchers today, such as how to conduct happiness research in different cultural contexts, how to theorise wellbeing or how to operationalise definitions of happiness in qualitative and biographical research. By uniquely combining the critical approach of sociology with techniques from other disciplines, the contributors illuminate new approaches to the study of happiness and well-being.