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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"somatics"”.
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A Somatics of Affect: Articulating Affective-Kinaesthetic Experience through BMC approaches to Performance and Writing
… to analysing and articulating affect, coined, a somatics of affect. Through the creation of two bodies of research-led performance works titled Prone (2011-2012) and Ballast (2014-2015), and attendant processes of what I term, somatic writing, I contribute a kinaesthetic epistemology of affective …
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Following the natural pathway: Integrating Barbara Clark's somatic principles with modern dance technique
… to ascertain and to describe how the fields of somatics and modern dance technique might be pedagogically integrated. Clark, a protégé of Mabel Todd, firmly establishes her work within the ideokinetic principle that idea or image is the primary facilitator of movement. However, her pedagogical …
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Dance and Sport
… explored as they manifest in cross-training, somatics, dance and sports medicine, higher education, and collaboration. The culmination of my research is the creation of Sound Mind Sound Body, a choreographic work bringing a team of dancers together to collaborate and train as athletes as well …
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From Surviving to Sustaining: Testimonios Examining the Need for and Impact of Embodied Critical Professional Development Among Educators of Color
… Race Theory, Chicana Feminist Epistemology, and somatics as political practice, this inquiry investigated: What conditions lead Educators of Color to cultivate embodied critical pedagogy, and what impacts emerge when they co-create embodied critical professional development? This study centered …
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"Tuning In": Sound Perception and Embodiment for Pauline Oliveros
… (1971) adapted elements of the emerging somatics movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s and invited the intuitive body into music performance and experience—ultimately opening the door for the “new musicologists” of the 1990s to actively accept bodily responses as a part of the music, …
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"Tuning In": Sound Perception and Embodiment for Pauline Oliveros
… (1971) adapted elements of the emerging somatics movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s and invited the intuitive body into music performance and experience—ultimately opening the door for the “new musicologists” of the 1990s to actively accept bodily responses as a part of the music, …
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Dancing the in-between-ness: (re)articulating Bartenieff Fundamentals through improvised dance performance-making
… work of other artist-scholars in the fields of somatics, dance and improvisation, including Ann Cooper Albright, Martha Eddy, Sondra Fraleigh, Erin Manning, Lisa Nelson, and Maxine Sheets-Johnstone and the embodied philosophies of Shannon Sullivan. Acknowledging other bodily-spatial perspectives …
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Moving: knowledge, image, embodiment and Iranian-American identity in the post-911 USA
… introduces a performative approach derived from Somatics and forms of improvisation to further elucidate notions of presence as culture in this particular context. It also includes storytelling elements that I feel necessary for surviving this period of time intact, that being a reliance on hope, …
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An investigation into the nature and development of dance consciousness in choreography and performance
… reduction, the explicitation session, somatics, sport psychology, visual and verbal processing, attention studies, Buddhist Introspection and Bodyweather. Relevant components were extracted from each theory and practice and applied to the discipline of dance. This resulted in the …
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Embodying Topeng: Gender, Training and Intercultural Encounters
… modes of embodiment, for instance cakra work, somatics and experiential anatomy may serve as strategies to communicate to a Western perspective how to bring ‘life’ to the mask, how to make it ‘work’ from a Balinese position and how these modes can assist in the process of intercultural (self) …
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Handle With Care: A Pedagogical Theory of Touch in Teaching Dance Technique Based on Four Case Studies
… on the topics of dance pedagogy, education, somatics, and touch—served to verify data gathered through interviews, observations, and questionnaires. A pedagogical theory of touch was developed. Three of the theory's core constructs are: (a) the inside/outside nature of dancing, and of …
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I Dance Land: An Apprenticeship with Wind and Water: Depatterning Somatic Amnesia, Repatterning Ecosomatic Senses
… knowledge by way of sensing and moving. EcoSomatics enlarges the notion of sensory motor amnesia by attending to ecosomatic disenchantment. This intuitive, site dance, performance as research bridges movement-based somatic art (somadance) with movement-based performance art …
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Dance Science, Somatic Movement, and Embodied Human Flourishing in and through Canadian Undergraduate Dance Degree Programs
… teachers leverage robust knowledge of dance and somatics to innovate movement in their courses. However, limited knowledge of dance science and pedagogy complicates the teaching process. Finally, a participatory action research study that employed critical creativity in a first-year contemporary …
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Toroidal Dance: A Yogic Perspective of Choreography, Transdisciplinarity, and Dance Dramaturgy
… areas of knowledge such as yogic philosophy, somatics, physics, mathematics, geometry, neuroscience, and trauma studies to explore how dance and yoga are holistically intertwined. The toroidal pattern, such as the Long Ek Ong Kar meditation, describes a self-regulating motion which has been …
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Intercorporeality and Technology: toward a new cognitive, aesthetic and communicative paradigm in the performing arts
… identified with the specialised field of somatics' (2013, p.3). The thesis thus proposes to reflect on the experience and conception of the performative body in the link it entertains with technology. Investigating this relationship, it defines a new paradigm, that of an 'interfaced …
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Haplós: Towards Technologies for and Applications of Somaesthetics
How can vibrotactile stimuli be used to create a technology-mediated somatic learning experience? This question motivates this practice-based research, which explores how the Feldenkrais Method and cognate neuroscience research can be applied to technology design. Supported by somaesthetic …
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Animal-Woman journey(s): posthuman embodiment of zoomorphic folk tales
Diverse folktales passed down across the generations in different languages tell of Seal Women, Selkies, Mermaids, Dove Girls, She-Wolves, Swan Women: all zoomorphic or semi-zoomorphic beings able to remove their animal coats or skins and take on human shape. Liminal creatures capable of …