The natural body in somatics dance training / Doran George and Susan Leigh Foster.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

George, Doran, 1969-2017, author.

Foster, Susan Leigh, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dance--Study and teaching--Psychological aspects.

Dance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour).

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: In search of the natural body

Renewable originality : the natural body & late twentieth century social change

Contradictory dissidence : somatics and American expansionism

Somatics bodies on the concert stage : processing, inventing, and displaying

Conclusion: Understanding the focus on natural authenticity.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-753876-2

0-19-753877-0

0-19-753875-4