{"product_id":"dance-somatics-and-spiritualities-contemporary-sacred-narratives-9781783201785","title":"Dance, Somatics and Spiritualities: Contemporary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis anthology negotiates the influential, yet silent educational presence of spiritualities within the field of somatic movement dance education internationally. The expressive and integral nature of spiritual experience remains academically undefined and peripheral to our understanding of creative practice. Lack of theoretical rigour, as well as a lack of a substantive definitional and methodological competency, has resulted in spirituality being marginalised. To date, important questions about how diverse spiritualities shape professional practice in the somatic movement and dance arts remain unanswered. This cutting-edge collection fills that void, providing greater creative and discursive clarity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'What makes this anthoplogy so unique and fascinating to read is not only the tremendous openness with which the editors approached the subject, thus inviting and allowing for such a diverse collection of individual sacred narratives to emerge; it abounds with mulit-faceted gems. It is also the variety of presentation styles, ranging from personal narratives interwoven with articulated scholarship, philosophical reflections, various research approaches, imaginary dialogues and interview conversations that turns this work into a rich and colourful fabric woven by the hands and hearts of its 33 contributors from across various cultures. '\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e -- Maria Luise Oberem, Ph.D. in Psychology, MA in Dance\/ Movement Therapy (USA), (BC-‐‑ DMT), MA in American Studies and Political Science\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Finally exists a book that offers a range of perspectives that looks academically at the numinous in dance without belittling or aggrandizing the subject. With a preface by Don Hanlon Johnson, editors Amanda Williamson, Glenna Batson, Sarah Whatley, and Rebecca Weber have pulled together an impressive anthology of essays on a topic often overlooked. Questions considered by dancers, somatic therapists, dance scholars, and anthropologists include the following: What is spirituality? How does it manifest in a body atuned to the nuances of movement? How does a dancer reclaim the sacred from a culture that marginalizes it in favor of secularization? Linda Hartley writes about Authentic Movement. Daria Halprin writes on the body as entry to embodied knowing. Sondra Fraleigh looks at the actions of consciousness. Bradford Keeney discusses N\/om and Bushman healing dances. Twenty substantive narratives on embodiment, mindfulness, Balinese dance and more make a juicy collection and a significant contribution to a field largely neglected.'\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e -- Cheryl Pallant, teacher at University of Richmond, Virginia, and author of Contact Improvisation: an Introduction to a Vitalizing Dance Form\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAmanda Williamson, Glenna Batson and Sarah Whatley\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart I: Moving Spiritualities \u003c\/strong\u003e–\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eAmanda Williamson\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1:\u003c\/strong\u003e Embodiment of Spirit: From Embryology to Authentic Movement as Embodied Relational Spiritual Practice – Linda Hartley\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Alchemy of Authentic Movement: Awakening Spirit in the Body – Tina Stromsted\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3:\u003c\/strong\u003e Dancing in the Spirit of Sophia – Jill Hayes\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4:\u003c\/strong\u003e Body Ensouled, Enacted and Entranced: Movement\/Dance as Transformative Art – Daria Halprin\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5:\u003c\/strong\u003e Dancing on the Breath of Limbs: Embodied Inquiry as a Place of Opening – Celeste Snowber\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6:\u003c\/strong\u003e ‘Can They Dance?’: Towards a Philosophy of Bodily Becoming – Kimerer L. LaMothe\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart II: Reflections on the Intersections of Spiritualities and Pedagogy \u003c\/strong\u003e– Sarah Whatley\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7:\u003c\/strong\u003e Reflections on the Spiritual Dimensions of Somatic Movement Dance Education – Martha Eddy, Amanda Williamson and Rebecca Weber\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8:\u003c\/strong\u003e Postmodern Spirituality? A Personal Narrative – Jill Green\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9:\u003c\/strong\u003e Working Like a Farmer: Towards an Embodied Spirituality – Helen Poynor\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10:\u003c\/strong\u003e Intimate to Ultimate: The Meta-Kinesthetic Flow of Embodied Engagement – Glenna Batson\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11:\u003c\/strong\u003e Permission and the Making of Consciousness – Sondra Fraleigh\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12:\u003c\/strong\u003e Conversations about the Somatic Basis of Spiritual Experiences – Sylvie Fortin, Ninoska Gomez, Yvan Joly, Linda Rabin, Odile Rouquet and Lawrence Smith\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 13:\u003c\/strong\u003e Inner Dance—Spirituality and Somatic Practice in Dance Technique, Choreography and Performance – Kathleen Debenham and Pat Debenham\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 14:\u003c\/strong\u003e This Indivisible Moment: A Meditation on Language, Spirit, Magic and Somatic Practice – Ray Schwartz\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 15:\u003c\/strong\u003e Global Somatics™ Process: A Contemporary Shamanic Approach – Suzanne River, interviewed by Kathleen Melin\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart III: Cultural Immersions and Performance Excursions \u003c\/strong\u003e– Glenna Batson\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 16:\u003c\/strong\u003e Dancing N\/\u003cem\u003eom – \u003c\/em\u003eHillary Keeney and Bradford Keeney\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 17:\u003c\/strong\u003e Dancing with the Divine: Dance Education and the Embodiment of Spirit, from Bali to America – Susan Bauer\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 18:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Sacrum and the Sacred: Mutual Transformation of Performer and Site through Ecological Movement in a Sacred Site – Sandra Reeve\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 19:\u003c\/strong\u003e Dancing and Flourishing: Mindful Meditation in Dance-Making and Performing – Sarah Whatley and Naomi Lefebvre Sell\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 20:\u003c\/strong\u003e ‘What You Cannot Imagine’: Spirituality in Akram Khan’s Vertical Road – Jayne Stevens\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Intellect Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042259370327,"sku":"9781783201785","price":53.06,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781783201785.jpg?v=1750953663","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dance-somatics-and-spiritualities-contemporary-sacred-narratives-9781783201785","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}