The Natural Body in Somatics Dance Training
Author | : Doran George |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2020-10-19 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780197538739 |
ISBN-13 | : 0197538738 |
Rating | : 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "Doran George's The Natural Body in Somatics Dance Training examines the development of Somatics as it has been adopted by successive generations of practitioners since its early beginnings in the 1950s. The study elucidates the ways that Somatics has engaged globally with some of the various locales in which it was developed and practiced, both in terms of its relationships to other dance training programs in that region and to larger aesthetic and political values. The book thereby offers a cogent analysis of how training regimens can inculcate an embodied politics as they guide and shape the experience of bodily sensation, construct forms of reflexive evaluation of bodily action, and summon bodies into relationship with one another. Throughout it focuses on how the notion of a natural body was implemented and developed in Somatics' pedagogy"--