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Dance, Movement & Spiritualities - Volume 2, Issue 2, 2015
Volume 2, Issue 2, 2015
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Learning to let go: Phenomenologically exploring the experience of a grip and release in salsa dance and everyday life
More LessAbstractWithin the context of salsa dance, an exemplar that is highly attuned to gestural communication, there are moments when a perceptual merge, what Csikszentmihalyi posits as flow, is experienced. Movements are not anticipated, rather the fullness of the moment ripples out in fluid responsiveness to miniscule pressures and undulations in the simplest of gestures. Yet, achieving such a flow of reciprocity is not easy, as one must move not from a cognitive place of intention, but rather from a somatic sensibility premised on a corporeal openness. This enquiry thus explores what it is like to let go of habitual tensions that stand in the way of gestural communication within the context of salsa dance, and in so doing, the depth of connection to which attention is drawn represents the intertwining capabilities of relationships between bodies in any relational merge. And in delving into the nuances of gestural fluid responsiveness as guided by Daniel Stern’s notion of emotive motility living within the present moment, we may explore what it is like to form and feel a perceptual connection and the meaning that such moments hold, particularly for those who wish to heal and transform their daily relational existence.
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Phenomenologies in The Flowing Live Present
More LessAbstractPhenomenology is a popular qualitative method of enquiry, but not all phenomenology is the same. There are basic differences, and, at the same time, common threads that define an approach as phenomenological. Outgrowths of phenomenology are rooted in Edmund Husserl’s philosophy, now differentiated and widely applied in the arts, social science, psychology, somatic fields of enquiry and religious studies. Husserl’s foundational ideas return throughout this article. In Part 2, I engage connections between phenomenology, spirituality and dance. My hope is that practitioners and scholars of dance who are drawn to phenomenology will find themselves somewhere in this study.
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white-bodied poetry: beaching the beached
More LessAbstract[stories]… conjugating butoh … go, how? … creviced articulations of (academic) bodies morphing … a corporeal text … a table of contents of the poetic performative … performing poet … an exegesis of arriving : humbled leavings … nuanced sea/landscape … evocations of site … of dance … word waves … always questioning … white sandy grit (in teeth and crotch : … poetic scholarship) … verbing …
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A phenomenological study of altered consciousness induced through movement
More LessAbstractThis study contributes to an understanding of phenomenal consciousness through analysing altered consciousness induced through authentic movement (ACIM). Data derived from qualitative interviews of sixteen participants (eight female, eight male) aged 24–62 years were analysed within Moustakas’ Transcendental Phenomenological Model. Participants’ dance experience varied from less than one year to over 50 years (mean seventeen years). Data yielded the theme of heightened awareness as the essence, with twenty one themes and five processes formulated into a phenomenal descriptive model of ACIM, harmonious within consciousness research across the disciplines of psychology, neuroscience, dance, anthropology and religion.
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On dance and phenomenology: An essay interview with Professor Sondra Fraleigh, University of New York
Authors: Sondra Fraleigh and Amanda WilliamsonAbstractIn this extended essay interview with Sondra Fraleigh I ask about her paving-theway research in dance and phenomenology, and how the traditions of phenomenology historically and theoretically intersect within dance research paradigms. Together we cover questions and areas such as how and when phenomenological traditions started to integrate into Dance Studies, phenomenological approaches relative to somatics, and the ethical ramifications for students when phenomenology is taught and becomes a central research paradigm for dance studies students. Sondra shares her academic experience within these intersecting fields, and personal journeys and reflections within the intricacies and intimacies of phenomenological traditions.
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