This article brings together somatic, geographic and psychoanalytic discourse in order to explore the consoling effect of touch within a site-specific performance, made by the author called This is For You.1 The particular quality of the touch in this work is identified, with reference to somatic practices such as Alexander technique and Contact Improvisation, as touching with empty hands. Drawing on Amanda Bingley’s assertion that touch experienced in one moment can connect us to founda- tional experiences of touch in another, this particular quality of touch is explored in terms of its resonance with the psychoanalytic concept of maternal containment. The article explores the role that the ability of touch to contain (what is touched) plays in its capacity to assuage feelings of loss prompted by the transience of the city in which the work took place. It concludes by pointing to the potential importance of the ability of touch to both hold and accentuate the indeterminacies of the body in its capacity to console.
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{"title":"Back to the dance itself: In three acts","authors":"Sondra Fraleigh","doi":"10.1386/JDSP.9.2.235_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JDSP.9.2.235_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41455,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices","volume":"9 1","pages":"235-253"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47334888","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":"Buddhist ethics and the contact improvisation practitioner","authors":"J. Chandler","doi":"10.1386/jdsp.9.2.281_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jdsp.9.2.281_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41455,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices","volume":"9 1","pages":"281-294"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/jdsp.9.2.281_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49459693","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 gallery of hanging thoughts: On solo choreography (an artist’s perspective on mentoring post-graduate students)","authors":"Mary Nunan","doi":"10.1386/jdsp.9.2.223_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jdsp.9.2.223_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41455,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices","volume":"9 1","pages":"223-234"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43761588","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":"Feeling and healing: Anna Halprin’s dance as healing art","authors":"Christina Lee","doi":"10.1386/JDSP.9.2.269_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JDSP.9.2.269_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41455,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices","volume":"9 1","pages":"269-279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1386/JDSP.9.2.269_1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41635952","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 intelligence – individual and social potentiality/emerging thoughts from a festival","authors":"K. Münker","doi":"10.1386/jdsp.9.1.121_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jdsp.9.1.121_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41455,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices","volume":"9 1","pages":"121-130"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43386853","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 co-authored volume of The Journal for Dance and Somatic Practices (JDSP) focuses on construction and articulating the field of Somatics as critical practices. Glenna Batson (2017) argues towards the need for a new critique to fully address Somatics in the face of neoliberal globalization and an increasing planetary poly-crisis. How do we locate our embodied practices beyond commodification as critical and empowering practices? How do we question relevance, access, inclusion, and modes of knowledge production within our work? How do we articulate a critical stance toward elitism, Euro-centrism and under-theorisation historically associated with the field? Somatic practices can be understood as reflective processes of undoing existing patterns so that new ones can emerge. How can this transformative undoing be extended beyond the body of the individual to the body politic or the social body? How might we construct Somatics and affiliated transdisciplinary arts practices as practices of critique that might contribute to an alternative social imaginary or way of world-making? Can somatic processes and performance practices foster a capacity for self-reflection and criticality as feature of the ‘democratic citizen’ as ‘a member of the body politic’ (Morin 1999) within growing totalitarian socio-cultural contexts?
{"title":"Bodily undoing: Somatics as practices of critique","authors":"Kirsty Alexander, T. Kampe","doi":"10.1386/JDSP.9.1.3_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/JDSP.9.1.3_2","url":null,"abstract":"This co-authored volume of The Journal for Dance and Somatic Practices (JDSP) focuses on construction and articulating the field of Somatics as critical practices. Glenna Batson (2017) argues towards the need for a new critique to fully address Somatics in the face of neoliberal globalization and an increasing planetary poly-crisis. How do we locate our embodied practices beyond commodification as critical and empowering practices? How do we question relevance, access, inclusion, and modes of knowledge production within our work? How do we articulate a critical stance toward elitism, Euro-centrism and under-theorisation historically associated with the field? Somatic practices can be understood as reflective processes of undoing existing patterns so that new ones can emerge. How can this transformative undoing be extended beyond the body of the individual to the body politic or the social body? How might we construct Somatics and affiliated transdisciplinary arts practices as practices of critique that might contribute to an alternative social imaginary or way of world-making? Can somatic processes and performance practices foster a capacity for self-reflection and criticality as feature of the ‘democratic citizen’ as ‘a member of the body politic’ (Morin 1999) within growing totalitarian socio-cultural contexts?","PeriodicalId":41455,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices","volume":"9 1","pages":"3-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2017-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41945994","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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