The natural body in somatics dance training / Doran George ; edited by Susan Leigh Foster.
"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 vari...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press,
[2020]
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| 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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| Item Description: | Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2014, titled A conceit of the natural body : the universal-individual in somatic dance training. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 229 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197538777 0197538770 0197538762 9780197538753 0197538754 9780197538760 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 03, 2020) |