Dance, Somatics and Spiritualities: Contemporary Sacred Narratives
Dance, Somatics and Spiritualities brings together prominent authors and practitioners in order to elucidate how a wide range of sacred narratives/spiritualities are informing pedagogy, educational and therapeutic practice. As well as providing new insights and promoting creative/artistic awareness, this seminal text de-mystifies the spiritual/sacred and brings clarity and academic visibility to this largely uncharted and often misrepresented subject.
Our authors and contents:
Don Hanlon Johnson
Introduction xxiii
Amanda Williamson, Glenna Batson and Sarah Whatley
Part I: Moving Spiritualities 1
Amanda Williamson
Chapter 1: Embodiment of Spirit: From Embryology to Authentic Movement as Embodied Relational Spiritual Practice 9
Linda Hartley
Chapter 2: The Alchemy of Authentic Movement: Awakening Spirit in the Body 35
Tina Stromstead
Chapter 3: Dancing in the Spirit of Sophia 61
Jill Hayes
Chapter 4: Body Ensouled, Enacted and Entranced: Movement/Dance as Transformative Art 87
Daria Halprin
Chapter 5: Dancing on the Breath of Limbs: Embodied Inquiry as a Place of Opening 115
Celeste Snowber
Chapter 6: €˜Can They Dance?€: Towards a Philosophy of Bodily Becoming 131
Kimerer L. LaMothe,
Part II: Reflections on the Intersections of Spiritualities and Pedagogy 151
Sarah Whatley
Chapter 7: Reflections on the Spiritual Dimensions of Somatic Movement Dance Education 159
Martha Eddy, Amanda Williamson and Rebecca Weber
Chapter 8: Postmodern Spirituality? A Personal Narrative 195
Jill Green
Chapter 9: Working Like a Farmer: Towards an Embodied Spirituality 209
Helen Poynor
Chapter 10: Intimate to Ultimate: The Meta-Kinesthetic Flow of Embodied Engagement 221
Glenna Batson
Chapter 11: Permission and the Making of Consciousness 239
Sondra Fraleigh
Chapter 12: Conversations about the Somatic Basis of Spiritual Experiences 261
Sylvie Fortin, Ninoska Gomez, Yvan Joly, Linda Rabin, Odile Rouquet and Lawrence Smith,
Chapter 13: Inner Dance€"Spirituality and Somatic Practice in Dance Technique, Choreography and Performance 283
Kathleen Debenham and Pat Debenham
Chapter 14: This Indivisible Moment: A Meditation on Language, Spirit, Magic and Somatic Practice 305
Ray Schwartz
Chapter 15: Global Somatics„ Process: A Contemporary Shamanic Approach 327
Suzanne River, interviewed by Kathleen Melin
Part III: Cultural Immersions and Performance Excursions 349
Glenna Batson
Chapter 16: Dancing N/om 357
Hillary Keeney and Bradford Keeney
Chapter 17: Dancing with the Divine: Dance Education and the Embodiment of Spirit, from Bali to America 373
Susan Bauer
Chapter 18: The Sacrum and the Sacred: Mutual Transformation of Performer and Site through Ecological Movement in a
Sacred Site 417
Sandra Reeve
Chapter 19: Dancing and Flourishing: Mindful Meditation in Dance-Making and Performing 437
Sarah Whatley and Naomi Lefebvre Sell
Chapter 20: €˜What You Cannot Imagine€: Spirituality in Akram Khan€s Vertical Road 459
Jayne Stevens
