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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.This collection of papers covers the themes of: Somatics in the wider social context Pedagogy/Education Intercultural Dialogues Lived lineages Interplay of practice and writingPartial ContentsAs my attention is wandering: A score for somatic enquiry - Carolyn RoyNot Without My Body: The Struggle of Dancers and Choreographers in the Middle East - Nadra AssafDisorganising Principles: Corporeal Fragmentation and the Possibilities for Repair - Jennifer RocheAttending to ethics and aesthetics in dance - Fiona Bannon & Duncan HoltAt dusk, the collaborative spills and cycles of L219 - Cath Cullinane, Natalie Garrett Brown, Christian Kipp & Amy VorisThe Art of Making Choices: The Feldenkrais Method as a soma-critique - Thomas KampeMotion Capture and The Dancer: Visuality, Temporality and the Dancing Image - Sarah WhatleyThe fool’s journey and poisonous mushrooms - Adam Benjamin’The daily round the common task’: Embodied Practice and the Dance of the Everyday - Hilary KnealeRe-sourcing the body: embodied presence and self-care in working with others - Penny CollinsonThinking, Reflecting and Contemplating With the Body - Lalitaraja (Joachim Chandler)Mythbusting: Using the Alexander Technique to free yourself from detrimental misconceptions in the performing arts - Jennifer Mackerras & Jane TomsA Moving and Touching Career in Dance and Chiropractic - Duncan HoltAttending to movement: the need to make dance that was different to that which went before - Sara ReedTowards a constructive interaction between somatic education and introspective verbalization - Nicole Harbonnier-Topin & Helen SimardChoreographic Mobilities: Embodied Migratory Acts Across the US-Mexico Border - Juan Manuel Aldape Munoz ReadershipDesigned as a guide and stimulus for: teachers,students and practitioners of dance and somatic practices researchers and academics in these fields.
