This article is a reflection from a moment during the tour of my performance work for young audiences – Found. I explore how the meaningfulness shared in the moments dancing together captures much broader narratives about the transformative connections of Being-in-Place: emplacement. I respond to Sarah Pink’s call to explore bodily experiences through emplacement. Therefore, I use emplacement as a lens to theorize experiences during the practical performance work of Found, beyond the visual aesthetic of seeing live dance. This articulating and valuing the significance of where Self begins, or ends or is continuous in environment shares somatic inquiry with colleagues in architecture, social sciences and geography. I suggest ramifications on how dance offers corporeal dialogue that can empower children to take part in, and become aware of, their own presence in the co-created reality of Place.
{"title":"‘[...] wind in my hair, I feel a part of everywhere [...]’: Creating dance for young audiences narrates emplacement","authors":"Adesola Akinleye","doi":"10.1386/JDSP.11.1.39_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JDSP.11.1.39_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article is a reflection from a moment during the tour of my performance work for young audiences – Found. I explore how the meaningfulness shared in the moments dancing together captures much broader narratives about the transformative connections of Being-in-Place: emplacement.\u0000 I respond to Sarah Pink’s call to explore bodily experiences through emplacement. Therefore, I use emplacement as a lens to theorize experiences during the practical performance work of Found, beyond the visual aesthetic of seeing live dance. This articulating and valuing the significance\u0000 of where Self begins, or ends or is continuous in environment shares somatic inquiry with colleagues in architecture, social sciences and geography. I suggest ramifications on how dance offers corporeal dialogue that can empower children to take part in, and become aware of, their own presence\u0000 in the co-created reality of Place.","PeriodicalId":41455,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/JDSP.11.1.39_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43836822","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 purpose of this article is to describe how students exploring fascia through somatics experience its embodiment. This is done by discussing their written impressions of the somatic workshop: ‘Fascia & movement’, which I taught in dance institutions in Bogotá and Barcelona as of 2015. This narrative material will serve to look for further connections between fascia research and the dance education field. The article begins by reviewing some core findings of fascia research and the Anatomy Trains1 model. It discusses the concepts of somatic movement (SM), embodiment and the place of writing within classes, offers a specific class example and describes the methodology and limits of the workshop design and the narrative approach. Then, I compare the main qualities and functions of the fascia with the subjective experiences of fascial embodiment. The most relevant experience found is a sensation of wholeness that comes from within, while a new awareness of internal connections and adaptability takes place. Finally, I will present some contributions, tactics and precautions of integrating fascial understanding into dance, movement education and self-development.
{"title":"Fascial embodiment in movement, training and dance education: Insights from a somatic workshop","authors":"Haike Irina Amelia Stollbrock Trujillo","doi":"10.1386/JDSP.11.1.7_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JDSP.11.1.7_1","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this article is to describe how students exploring fascia through somatics experience its embodiment. This is done by discussing their written impressions of the somatic workshop: ‘Fascia & movement’, which I taught in dance institutions in Bogotá\u0000 and Barcelona as of 2015. This narrative material will serve to look for further connections between fascia research and the dance education field. The article begins by reviewing some core findings of fascia research and the Anatomy Trains1 model. It discusses the concepts of somatic movement\u0000 (SM), embodiment and the place of writing within classes, offers a specific class example and describes the methodology and limits of the workshop design and the narrative approach. Then, I compare the main qualities and functions of the fascia with the subjective experiences of fascial embodiment.\u0000 The most relevant experience found is a sensation of wholeness that comes from within, while a new awareness of internal connections and adaptability takes place. Finally, I will present some contributions, tactics and precautions of integrating fascial understanding into dance, movement education\u0000 and self-development.","PeriodicalId":41455,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44951367","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":"Somatic/embodiment/technology as an evolutive strategy: The ontological shift of the performative body in contact with technologies","authors":"Isabelle Choinière","doi":"10.1386/JDSP.10.2.189_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JDSP.10.2.189_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41455,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/JDSP.10.2.189_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47955646","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":"The critical potential of somatic collectivity under post-Fordism","authors":"Noyale Colin","doi":"10.1386/JDSP.10.2.235_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JDSP.10.2.235_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41455,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48062413","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":"The audience experience of immersion through intersubjective embodiment in Sensuous Geographies (2003)","authors":"S. Han","doi":"10.1386/jdsp.10.2.207_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jdsp.10.2.207_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41455,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47448027","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":"Zarf & Portakal: Dance as a medium for understanding experiences of violence","authors":"Ninel Çam","doi":"10.1386/JDSP.10.2.251_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JDSP.10.2.251_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41455,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45484495","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":"Editorial","authors":"Sarah Whatley, Emma Meehan, H. Blades","doi":"10.1386/jdsp.10.2.141_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jdsp.10.2.141_2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41455,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49270967","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 embedded ethnographic study focuses on The Forsythe Company’s 2010 creation of Whole in the Head, the cast of which brought already-expert new dancers into collaboration with experienced ensemble veterans. The devising practice during the making of this “Schulwerk” yielded teaching and learning opportunities to all of the participants, whilst the emergent and distributed opportunities afforded by the devising context scaffolded the ensemble’s development as a complicit, choreographically productive community informed by specific somatic approaches to movement generation. Moving across unexpected etymological linkages of the term skill across languages, the analysis shows how the devising process of this work enhanced crucial expert-specific skills across the full ensemble, inviting consideration of the nature of skill and its expansion within communities of experts.
{"title":"Schooling an ensemble: The Forsythe Company’s Whole in the Head","authors":"Freya Vass-Rhee","doi":"10.1386/JDSP.10.2.219_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JDSP.10.2.219_1","url":null,"abstract":"This embedded ethnographic study focuses on The Forsythe Company’s 2010 creation of Whole in the Head, the cast of which brought already-expert new dancers into collaboration with experienced ensemble veterans. The devising practice during the making of this “Schulwerk” yielded teaching and learning opportunities to all of the participants, whilst the emergent and distributed opportunities afforded by the devising context scaffolded the ensemble’s development as a complicit, choreographically productive community informed by specific somatic approaches to movement generation. Moving across unexpected etymological linkages of the term skill across languages, the analysis shows how the devising process of this work enhanced crucial expert-specific skills across the full ensemble, inviting consideration of the nature of skill and its expansion within communities of experts.","PeriodicalId":41455,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48894940","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":"The sourcing of Somatic Theatre Praxis: Breathing with a goat, contemplating 2000 turkeys and an unexpected interview","authors":"S. Jürgens","doi":"10.1386/jdsp.10.2.303_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jdsp.10.2.303_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41455,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42846669","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}