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 JohnsonIntroduction xxiiiAmanda Williamson, Glenna Batson and Sarah WhatleyPart I: Moving Spiritualities 1Amanda WilliamsonChapter 1: Embodiment of Spirit: From Embryology to Authentic Movement as Embodied Relational Spiritual Practice 9Linda HartleyChapter 2: The Alchemy of Authentic Movement: Awakening Spirit in the Body 35Tina StromsteadChapter 3: Dancing in the Spirit of Sophia 61Jill HayesChapter 4: Body Ensouled, Enacted and Entranced: Movement/Dance as Transformative Art 87Daria HalprinChapter 5: Dancing on the Breath of Limbs: Embodied Inquiry as a Place of Opening 115Celeste SnowberChapter 6: ‘Can They Dance?’: Towards a Philosophy of Bodily Becoming 131Kimerer L. LaMothe, Part II: Reflections on the Intersections of Spiritualities and Pedagogy 151Sarah WhatleyChapter 7: Reflections on the Spiritual Dimensions of Somatic Movement Dance Education 159Martha Eddy, Amanda Williamson and Rebecca WeberChapter 8: Postmodern Spirituality? A Personal Narrative 195Jill GreenChapter 9: Working Like a Farmer: Towards an Embodied Spirituality 209Helen PoynorChapter 10: Intimate to Ultimate: The Meta-Kinesthetic Flow of Embodied Engagement 221Glenna BatsonChapter 11: Permission and the Making of Consciousness 239Sondra FraleighChapter 12: Conversations about the Somatic Basis of Spiritual Experiences 261Sylvie 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 283Kathleen Debenham and Pat DebenhamChapter 14: This Indivisible Moment: A Meditation on Language, Spirit, Magic and Somatic Practice 305Ray SchwartzChapter 15: Global Somatics™ Process: A Contemporary Shamanic Approach 327Suzanne River, interviewed by Kathleen MelinPart III: Cultural Immersions and Performance Excursions 349Glenna BatsonChapter 16: Dancing N/om 357Hillary Keeney and Bradford KeeneyChapter 17: Dancing with the Divine: Dance Education and the Embodiment of Spirit, from Bali to America 373Susan BauerChapter 18: The Sacrum and the Sacred: Mutual Transformation of Performer and Site through Ecological Movement in a Sacred Site 417Sandra ReeveChapter 19: Dancing and Flourishing: Mindful Meditation in Dance-Making and Performing 437Sarah Whatley and Naomi Lefebvre SellChapter 20: ‘What You Cannot Imagine’: Spirituality in Akram Khan’s Vertical Road 459Jayne Stevens Read more