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The natural body in somatics dance training

Author: Search for this author George, Doran (author)
Statement of Responsibility: Doran George ; edited by Susan Leigh Foster
Medium identifier: SKH
Year: 2020
Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press
Media group: Buch
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From its beginnings as an alternative and dissident form of dance training in the 1960s, somatics emerged at the end of the 20th century as one of the most popular and widespread regimens used to educate dancers. It is now found in dance curricula worldwide, helping to shape the look and sensibilities of both dancers and choreographers and thereby influencing much of the dance we see onstage worldwide. Examining somatics in detail and analysing how and what it teaches in the dance studio, this text considers how dancers discover and assimilate new ways of moving and also larger cultural values associated with those movements.
 
Summary: 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.

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Author: Search for this author George, Doran (author)
Statement of Responsibility: Doran George ; edited by Susan Leigh Foster
Medium identifier: SKH
Year: 2020
Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press
Works included: Introduction: In search of the natural body - 1. Renewable originality : reaffirming the natural body throughout the Twentieth century - 2. Contradictory dissidence : somatics and American expansionism, 3. Somatics bodies on the concert stage : processing, inventing, and displaying -- Conclusion: Understanding the focus on natural authenticity.
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ISBN: 978-0-19-753874-6
ISBN (2nd): 0-19-753874-6
Description: viii, 229 Seiten : Illustrationen
Tags: €Teaching / Psychological aspects; €Mind and body; €Somesthesia; €Improvisation; €Dance / Philosophy; Dance / Study and teaching
Participating parties: Search for this character Foster, Susan Leigh (editor)
Language: Englisch
Media group: Buch