{"title":"Teaching practising: Its subtractive sensibilities","authors":"Antonia Pont","doi":"10.1386/jdsp_00103_1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article proposes that, alongside the teaching of the specific contents of any practice, we can better apprehend what informs a teaching of practising by invoking the notion of subtractive sensibility . The article disambiguates practices from practising per se, drawing on the author’s existing research in the field of practising theory and the four criteria of practising. The article then explores the idea of the subtractive via the works of philosopher, Alain Badiou and professor of education, Jakob Muth. Three subtractive sensibilities are then proposed: relaxation-in-the-face-of-difficulty, non-purposiveness and acausality . These are relevant to teaching not only discrete practices but also practis ing , where the latter is an approach to doing that invites transformation without undermining steadiness or going via destruction.","PeriodicalId":41455,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jdsp_00103_1","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"DANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This article proposes that, alongside the teaching of the specific contents of any practice, we can better apprehend what informs a teaching of practising by invoking the notion of subtractive sensibility . The article disambiguates practices from practising per se, drawing on the author’s existing research in the field of practising theory and the four criteria of practising. The article then explores the idea of the subtractive via the works of philosopher, Alain Badiou and professor of education, Jakob Muth. Three subtractive sensibilities are then proposed: relaxation-in-the-face-of-difficulty, non-purposiveness and acausality . These are relevant to teaching not only discrete practices but also practis ing , where the latter is an approach to doing that invites transformation without undermining steadiness or going via destruction.
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The Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices is an international refereed journal published twice a year. It has been in publication since 2009 for scholars and practitioners whose research interests focus on the relationship between dance and somatic practices, and the influence that this body of practice exerts on the wider performing arts. In recent years, somatic practices have become more central to many artists'' work and have become more established within educational and training programmes. Despite this, as a body of work it has remained largely at the margins of scholarly debate, finding its presence predominantly through the embodied knowledge of practitioners and their performative contributions. This journal provides a space to debate the work, to consider the impact and influence of the work on performance and discuss the implications for research and teaching. The journal serves a broad international community and invites contributions from a wide range of discipline areas. Particular features include writings that consciously traverse the boundaries between text and performance, taking the form of ‘visual essays'', interviews with leading practitioners, book reviews, themed issues and conference/symposium reports.