Somatic dance practice is a much needed accompaniment to any dance training, with many benefits to the students. However, breaking through to a sceptical novice student can be a challenge. And for those who fall willingly into the practice, becoming overly internalized and disconnected to the external can be equally problematic. In response to these issues, the author advocates that costume could be the answer. This visual essay will reflect on the absence of costume in dance education and examine its somatic nature through the analysis of relevant performance works. Evidencing costume’s haptic nature and impact on the performing body, its comparison with somatic dance practice principles will be discussed. Finally, the author suggests a definition of the somatic nature of costume and its recommendation as a tool to support the teaching of somatic practice in dance education.
{"title":"Costume as a somatic tool in dance education: A provocation","authors":"Lorraine Smith","doi":"10.1386/JDSP_00027_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JDSP_00027_1","url":null,"abstract":"Somatic dance practice is a much needed accompaniment to any dance training, with many benefits to the students. However, breaking through to a sceptical novice student can be a challenge. And for those who fall willingly into the practice, becoming overly internalized and disconnected to the external can be equally problematic. In response to these issues, the author advocates that costume could be the answer. This visual essay will reflect on the absence of costume in dance education and examine its somatic nature through the analysis of relevant performance works. Evidencing costume’s haptic nature and impact on the performing body, its comparison with somatic dance practice principles will be discussed. Finally, the author suggests a definition of the somatic nature of costume and its recommendation as a tool to support the teaching of somatic practice in dance education.","PeriodicalId":41455,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices","volume":"12 1","pages":"255-265"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46463037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Body IQ Festival: A collective memoir","authors":"Sarah Whatley","doi":"10.1386/jdsp_00030_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jdsp_00030_5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41455,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices","volume":"12 1","pages":"303-311"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44653665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article explores how the felt sense of touch, as engaged through the enabling constraints of the Argentine tango duet, can facilitate an experience of kinaesthetic listening in the spaces emerging between the dancer’s inside and outside worlds. The author’s habitual perception of giving and receiving touch as a tango dancer is destabilized by framing a series of somatic experiences in settings where customary tango conditions and assumptions do not apply. This involves experimenting with methods and tools of inquiry borrowed from contact and contemporary dance improvisation. The article argues that when practiced as a form of kinaesthetic listening, tango is conducive to a process of sensing and feeling together. In this process, it becomes possible to be touched both physically and affectively by the movement impulses negotiated between the partners. This possibility unsettles the reductive idea of one’s body as a separate entity preceding the encounter.
{"title":"(Re-)engaging touch as a tango dancer: An experimental framework for kinaesthetic listening1","authors":"Raffaele Rufo","doi":"10.1386/jdsp_00024_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jdsp_00024_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores how the felt sense of touch, as engaged through the enabling constraints of the Argentine tango duet, can facilitate an experience of kinaesthetic listening in the spaces emerging between the dancer’s inside and outside worlds. The author’s habitual perception of giving and receiving touch as a tango dancer is destabilized by framing a series of somatic experiences in settings where customary tango conditions and assumptions do not apply. This involves experimenting with methods and tools of inquiry borrowed from contact and contemporary dance improvisation. The article argues that when practiced as a form of kinaesthetic listening, tango is conducive to a process of sensing and feeling together. In this process, it becomes possible to be touched both physically and affectively by the movement impulses negotiated between the partners. This possibility unsettles the reductive idea of one’s body as a separate entity preceding the encounter.","PeriodicalId":41455,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices","volume":"12 1","pages":"207-228"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47199252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article addresses the nature of somatic-informed movement practice (SIMP) taking place in hospitals as a participatory art form. It focuses on the data from a report that collates the scope of practice, working patterns and procedures of somatic-informed movement practitioners in the United Kingdom (Collinson and Herd 2020), specifically the views of the six practitioners interviewed. The article first identifies key principles and values underpinning SIMP, exploring ways in which it might support people with illness. This is followed by a description of the aims and function of the report and data which enables us to see how SIMP cultivates embodied relational awareness through a ‘co-creative’ process, and concludes by addressing why creativity and presence can support people who may have lost trust and connection with their bodies through illness. The article acknowledges the challenge of placing embodied arts practice (such as SIMP) in a medical paradigm and includes recommendations for ways forward.
{"title":"When body makes its presence felt: Somatic-informed movement practice as an integral part of the hospital care team","authors":"P. Collinson","doi":"10.1386/jdsp_00029_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jdsp_00029_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article addresses the nature of somatic-informed movement practice (SIMP) taking place in hospitals as a participatory art form. It focuses on the data from a report that collates the scope of practice, working patterns and procedures of somatic-informed movement practitioners in the United Kingdom (Collinson and Herd 2020), specifically the views of the six practitioners interviewed. The article first identifies key principles and values underpinning SIMP, exploring ways in which it might support people with illness. This is followed by a description of the aims and function of the report and data which enables us to see how SIMP cultivates embodied relational awareness through a ‘co-creative’ process, and concludes by addressing why creativity and presence can support people who may have lost trust and connection with their bodies through illness. The article acknowledges the challenge of placing embodied arts practice (such as SIMP) in a medical paradigm and includes recommendations for ways forward.","PeriodicalId":41455,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices","volume":"12 1","pages":"289-302"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49212365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The research suggests understandings about the importance of activation (of/from/in) the body with the systems (culture/communication/health) through somatic–performative experiences; by means of which the anaesthetized body is destabilized for an awakening of states of the Mestizo Corporalities in the (re)cognition of the tropical/vibrant body. The initiative has fostered the ecology of knowledge, as well as a decolonial education in a research proposal that aims to anthropofagize these experiences in movement of the performer-researcher for an activation/reactivation of diverse points of view incorporating several principles of the somatic–performative approach, embracing the (inter)arts as an actuator of relationships with nature-life-world, their religious-ritualistic syncretisms and the day-to-day experiences, as well as the paths-identities of the performer-person-researcher. This narrative aims to incorporate completed performances and expose how these paths affect my identity networks; it is in this flow of interactions that articulate transpositions of learning and their different contributions to systems (culture–communication–health) that somatic–performative experiences renew the awakening to the mestizo vibrational body and in some way force the presence of practice research for other methodologies for a decolonial education and knowledge ecology.
{"title":"Mestizo Corporalities: Tropical/vibrant Latin American bodies","authors":"Leonardo José Sebiane Serrano","doi":"10.1386/jdsp_00016_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jdsp_00016_1","url":null,"abstract":"The research suggests understandings about the importance of activation (of/from/in) the body with the systems (culture/communication/health) through somatic–performative experiences; by means of which the anaesthetized body is destabilized for an awakening of states of the Mestizo Corporalities in the (re)cognition of the tropical/vibrant body. The initiative has fostered the ecology of knowledge, as well as a decolonial education in a research proposal that aims to anthropofagize these experiences in movement of the performer-researcher for an activation/reactivation of diverse points of view incorporating several principles of the somatic–performative approach, embracing the (inter)arts as an actuator of relationships with nature-life-world, their religious-ritualistic syncretisms and the day-to-day experiences, as well as the paths-identities of the performer-person-researcher. This narrative aims to incorporate completed performances and expose how these paths affect my identity networks; it is in this flow of interactions that articulate transpositions of learning and their different contributions to systems (culture–communication–health) that somatic–performative experiences renew the awakening to the mestizo vibrational body and in some way force the presence of practice research for other methodologies for a decolonial education and knowledge ecology.","PeriodicalId":41455,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices","volume":"12 1","pages":"107-125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46278739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In this article, I address ways of nurturing a ‘heightened sense of kinesthesia’ (expression used by Caroline Potter) within the context of contemporary dance. To do that, I articulate existing literature with data collected in a field research, at which time I taught classes that aimed to integrate the study of experiential anatomy, from a Body-Mind Centering® perspective, with dance practices. The nuanced attention to the sense of movement is here regarded as a central aspect for contemporary dancers that is yet to be widely considered pedagogically. Thus, by nurturing the awareness of kinesthesia and giving voice to this multilayered sense, I sought to broaden its understanding within the context of dance.
{"title":"Somatic ways of approaching a kinesthetic2 mode of attention in dance","authors":"J. Silveira","doi":"10.1386/jdsp_00011_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jdsp_00011_1","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I address ways of nurturing a ‘heightened sense of kinesthesia’ (expression used by Caroline Potter) within the context of contemporary dance. To do that, I articulate existing literature with data collected in a field research, at which time I taught classes that aimed to integrate the study of experiential anatomy, from a Body-Mind Centering® perspective, with dance practices. The nuanced attention to the sense of movement is here regarded as a central aspect for contemporary dancers that is yet to be widely considered pedagogically. Thus, by nurturing the awareness of kinesthesia and giving voice to this multilayered sense, I sought to broaden its understanding within the context of dance.","PeriodicalId":41455,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices","volume":"12 1","pages":"29-45"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45003939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Somatic–performative research (SPR) is a mode of Artistic Practice as Research I have been developing in the past fifteen years. Major influences of SPR have been Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis, Authentic Movement, dance theatre and performance. Performativity in a somatic perspective is a constant state of change, between pulsing and resting, innovation and balance, in a process of merging, differentiating and growing. In SPR, the research subject and its enquiries are alive and pulsing in contrasting forces. We merge into them to move with and be moved by them, in dynamic relationship with an inter-artistic creative environment. The association of somatic and performative research implies specific pedagogical choices, strategies and activities. As part of an academic moving field, the SPR encompasses the integration of inner attunement and coherence with artistic exploration, sensorial merger and critical analysis, creativity and social relevance.
{"title":"Somatic‐Performative Research: Artistic practices, pedagogical processes, methodological principles","authors":"Ciane Fernandes","doi":"10.1386/jdsp_00013_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jdsp_00013_1","url":null,"abstract":"Somatic–performative research (SPR) is a mode of Artistic Practice as Research I have been developing in the past fifteen years. Major influences of SPR have been Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis, Authentic Movement, dance theatre and performance. Performativity in a somatic perspective is a constant state of change, between pulsing and resting, innovation and balance, in a process of merging, differentiating and growing. In SPR, the research subject and its enquiries are alive and pulsing in contrasting forces. We merge into them to move with and be moved by them, in dynamic relationship with an inter-artistic creative environment. The association of somatic and performative research implies specific pedagogical choices, strategies and activities. As part of an academic moving field, the SPR encompasses the integration of inner attunement and coherence with artistic exploration, sensorial merger and critical analysis, creativity and social relevance.","PeriodicalId":41455,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices","volume":"12 1","pages":"61-76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/jdsp_00013_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45983605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
What if I could use my body-in-motion as a research tool? From the understanding that movement can be a site of knowledge and the body a thinking soma, this article supports a practice of studio laboratory as a somatic method of research, working with Laban’s principles of thinking in movement to investigate the genealogy of Laban practices in Brazil. Based on embodied research perspectives and Rudolf Laban’s praxis that proposes a ‘movement-thinking’ as well as the merging between cognition and action, the laboratory is a way to employ movement practice in the research without focusing on an artistic product but using art as a means of research and not necessarily its end. In this article, I discuss and describe the use of laboratory practice as a method for embodied and somatic research, providing two examples of how this practice was implemented as part of the methodology for drawing the genealogy of Laban practitioners in Brazil.
{"title":"The thinking body-in-motion: Studio laboratory practice in researching Laban in Brazil","authors":"M. Scialom","doi":"10.1386/jdsp_00014_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jdsp_00014_1","url":null,"abstract":"What if I could use my body-in-motion as a research tool? From the understanding that movement can be a site of knowledge and the body a thinking soma, this article supports a practice of studio laboratory as a somatic method of research, working with Laban’s principles of thinking in movement to investigate the genealogy of Laban practices in Brazil. Based on embodied research perspectives and Rudolf Laban’s praxis that proposes a ‘movement-thinking’ as well as the merging between cognition and action, the laboratory is a way to employ movement practice in the research without focusing on an artistic product but using art as a means of research and not necessarily its end. In this article, I discuss and describe the use of laboratory practice as a method for embodied and somatic research, providing two examples of how this practice was implemented as part of the methodology for drawing the genealogy of Laban practitioners in Brazil.","PeriodicalId":41455,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices","volume":"12 1","pages":"77-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/jdsp_00014_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44839409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The thinking in this short report emerged from the author’s participation as an online learner in the TBI 101 course on Mabel Elsworth Todd by Pamela Matt, The Thinking Body Institute. Participation in this course, during a Ph.D. internship period at C-DaRE, Coventry University as a visiting researcher in 2018, prompted reflections on e-learning and feelings of embodied or disembodied experience, particularly in close connection to the author’s doctoral research on sensory and creative possibilities of a somatic approach to improvisation in performer training. This report reviews the pedagogical and technological challenges of the TBI 101 study programme in order to better understand the potential connections between (dis)embodied research and online learning, and to offer a foundation for a somatic point of view on e-learning. The thinking offered here investigates different levels of (dis)embodied engagement, suggesting it is dependent on the synergy of the participant’s learning style, the technological platform and the pedagogical approach.
{"title":"Online education and the feeling of (dis)embodiment: A somatic perspective of a learning experience","authors":"Marcia Donadel","doi":"10.1386/jdsp_00019_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jdsp_00019_7","url":null,"abstract":"The thinking in this short report emerged from the author’s participation as an online learner in the TBI 101 course on Mabel Elsworth Todd by Pamela Matt, The Thinking Body Institute. Participation in this course, during a Ph.D. internship period at C-DaRE, Coventry University as a visiting researcher in 2018, prompted reflections on e-learning and feelings of embodied or disembodied experience, particularly in close connection to the author’s doctoral research on sensory and creative possibilities of a somatic approach to improvisation in performer training. This report reviews the pedagogical and technological challenges of the TBI 101 study programme in order to better understand the potential connections between (dis)embodied research and online learning, and to offer a foundation for a somatic point of view on e-learning. The thinking offered here investigates different levels of (dis)embodied engagement, suggesting it is dependent on the synergy of the participant’s learning style, the technological platform and the pedagogical approach.","PeriodicalId":41455,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices","volume":"12 1","pages":"155-161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2020-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49659011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Review of: Calatonia: A Therapeutic Approach That Promotes Somatic and Psychological Regulation, Anita Ribeiro Blanchard, Ana Maria Galrao Rios and Leda Maria Perillo Seixas (eds) (2019) Miami: Alma Street Enterprise, 325 pp., ISBN 978-1-09791-435-7, p/bk, £8.93, Kindle, £7.07
综述：Calatonia:一种促进身体和心理调节的治疗方法，Anita Ribeiro Blanchard，Ana Maria Galrao Rios和Leda Maria Perillo Seixas（编辑）（2019）迈阿密：Alma Street Enterprise，325页，ISBN 978-1-09791-435-7，p/bk，8.93英镑，Kindle，7.07英镑
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