Attending to Movement

This edited collection draws on the conference, Attending to Movement: Somatic Perspectives on Living in this World, run at C-DaRE, the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University, 12 – 14 July, 2013.

Somatic practitioners, dance artists and scholars from a wide range of subject domains cross discipline borders and investigate the approaches that embodied thinking and action can offer to philosophical and socio-cultural inquiry.

The book celebrates and builds upon the work of visionary dance artist, teacher and scholar Gill Clarke (1954 –2011), who championed the value of somatic approaches within and beyond dance education and creative practice.

Contents

PART ONE - INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUES


Carol Brown: So, Remember the Liquid Ground


Lalitaraja: Thinking, Reflecting and Contemplating With the Body


Nadra Assaf: Not Without My Body


Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz: Choreographic Mobilities

PART TWO - SOMATICS IN A WIDER SOCIAL CONTEXT


Thomas Kampe: The Art of Making Choices


Lizzy Le Quesne: An Intricate Field


Somaticatica (Bernadette Cronin, Jools Gilson, Roisin O'Gorman): Embodied Adventures in and out of the Irish Countryside

PART THREE - INTERPLAY OF PRACTICE AND WRITING


Adam Benjamin: The Fool’s Journey and Poisonous Mushrooms


Cath Cullinane, Natalie Garrett Brown, Christian Kipp & Amy Voris: At Dusk, the Collaborative Spills and Cycles of L219


Carolyn Roy: As My Attention is Wandering


Sally E. Dean: Amerta Movement and Somatic Costume


Hilary Kneale: ‘The Daily Round, The Common Task’


Sarah Whatley: Motion Capture and The Dancer

PART FOUR - PEDAGOGY/EDUCATION


Sara Reed: Attending to Movement


Fiona Bannon and Duncan Holt: Attending to Ethics and Aesthetics in Dance


Penny Collinson: Re-sourcing the Body


Nicole Harbonnier-Topin and Helen Simard: Somatic Education and Introspective Verbalisation

PART FIVE - LIVED LINEAGES


Jenny Roche: Disorganising Principles


Jennifer Mackerras and Jane Toms ~ Myth-Busting


Duncan Holt: A Moving and Touching Career in Dance and Chiropractic


Martha Eddy: Early Trends

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Sarah Whatley is Professor of Dance and Director of the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) at Coventry University.

Dr Natalie Garrett Brown is principal lecturer in dance at Coventry University, UK, where she contributes to the BA(Hons) Dance course and co-ordinates postgraduate provision for the Performing Arts Department.

Kirsty Alexander studied law and then trained in contemporary dance. She performed with a diverse range of artists including Gill Clarke, Rosemary Butcher, Gaby Agis, Michael Clarke, Station House Opera and Michel Laub.