Contemporary dance is constantly evolving. Its landscape has transformed and developed significantly over the past thirty years, slowly shifting from a repertoire company scene to a diverse freelance environment. In this idiosyncratic milieu, the breadth of skills that dancers need to master is constantly becoming more complex. Given that emerging contemporary dancers will be encountering the new reality of an increasingly heterogeneous freelance environment, how should training institutions best prepare students for this paradigm shift? To address this challenge, I began developing ‘The Porous Body’, a structure of feeling that promotes the practice of heightened physical and mental malleability by following four fundamental guiding principles: flow, playfulness, metaphor and paradox. Sourcing from my own performative, choreographic and pedagogical practices, and the work of dance artists, movement practitioners, philosophers and psychologists from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, I will formulate this method while sharing anecdotal feedback collected from dancers with whom I have recently experimented with this concept of physical and mental malleability. ARTICLE A changing world
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{"title":"A contemporary dance practice generating ad hoc dances: Inspired by and in conversation with Rosalind Crisp","authors":"Laura S. Glaser","doi":"10.1386/JDSP.10.1.23_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JDSP.10.1.23_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41455,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/JDSP.10.1.23_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47696868","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":"F. Bannon, N. G. Brown, A. Voris","doi":"10.1386/jdsp.10.1.3_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jdsp.10.1.3_2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41455,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42245114","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":"Reviews","authors":"B. Surgenor, M. Sarco-Thomas, R. Weber","doi":"10.1386/jdsp.10.1.127_5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jdsp.10.1.127_5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41455,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2018-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47557635","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":"How visual and kinaesthetic imagery shape movement improvisation: A pilot study","authors":"G. Batson, Susan Sentler","doi":"10.1386/JDSP.9.2.195_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JDSP.9.2.195_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41455,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices","volume":"9 1","pages":"195-212"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/JDSP.9.2.195_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41703204","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":"A conversation between Jonah Westerman, AHRC postdoctoral researcher, Tate 2015–2016 and Florence Peake, visual artist, dancer and choreographer, held on 26 June 2015 as part of Florence Peake’s exhibition Hall of the Swell at Gallery Lejeune","authors":"Florence Peake, J. Westerman","doi":"10.1386/JDSP.9.2.295_7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JDSP.9.2.295_7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41455,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices","volume":"9 1","pages":"295-303"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44033748","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 development of Somatic Acting Process in UK-based actor training","authors":"Christina Kapadocha","doi":"10.1386/JDSP.9.2.213_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JDSP.9.2.213_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41455,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices","volume":"9 1","pages":"213-221"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43587030","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}
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