Dance, Somatics and Spiritualities (eBook)

lt;p>Amanda Williamson is is an Honorary Visiting Professor at Coventry University.

Glenna Batson is Professor Emeritus at Winston-Salem State University.

Sarah Whatley is Professor of Dance at Coventry University.

Rebecca Weber is a somatic movement and dance educator who serves as an adjunct professor at various Philadelphia-area universities.

Introduction 

Amanda Williamson, Glenna Batson and Sarah Whatley

Part I: Moving Spiritualities – Amanda Williamson

Chapter 1: Embodiment of Spirit: From Embryology to Authentic Movement as Embodied Relational Spiritual Practice – Linda Hartley

Chapter 2: The Alchemy of Authentic Movement: Awakening Spirit in the Body – Tina Stromsted

Chapter 3: Dancing in the Spirit of Sophia – Jill Hayes

Chapter 4: Body Ensouled, Enacted and Entranced: Movement/Dance as Transformative Art – Daria Halprin

Chapter 5: Dancing on the Breath of Limbs: Embodied Inquiry as a Place of Opening – Celeste Snowber

Chapter 6: ‘Can They Dance?’: Towards a Philosophy of Bodily Becoming – Kimerer L. LaMothe

Part II: Reflections on the Intersections of Spiritualities and Pedagogy – Sarah Whatley

Chapter 7: Reflections on the Spiritual Dimensions of Somatic Movement Dance Education – Martha Eddy, Amanda Williamson and Rebecca Weber

Chapter 8: Postmodern Spirituality? A Personal Narrative – Jill Green

Chapter 9: Working Like a Farmer: Towards an Embodied Spirituality – Helen Poynor

Chapter 10: Intimate to Ultimate: The Meta-Kinesthetic Flow of Embodied Engagement – Glenna Batson

Chapter 11: Permission and the Making of Consciousness – Sondra Fraleigh

Chapter 12: Conversations about the Somatic Basis of Spiritual Experiences – Sylvie 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 – Kathleen Debenham and Pat Debenham

Chapter 14: This Indivisible Moment: A Meditation on Language, Spirit, Magic and Somatic Practice – Ray Schwartz

Chapter 15: Global Somatics™ Process: A Contemporary Shamanic Approach – Suzanne River, interviewed by Kathleen Melin

Part III: Cultural Immersions and Performance Excursions – Glenna Batson

Chapter 16: Dancing N/om – Hillary Keeney and Bradford Keeney

Chapter 17: Dancing with the Divine: Dance Education and the Embodiment of Spirit, from Bali to America – Susan Bauer

Chapter 18: The Sacrum and the Sacred: Mutual Transformation of Performer and Site through Ecological Movement in a Sacred Site – Sandra Reeve

Chapter 19: Dancing and Flourishing: Mindful Meditation in Dance-Making and Performing – Sarah Whatley and Naomi Lefebvre Sell

Chapter 20: ‘What You Cannot Imagine’: Spirituality in Akram Khan’s Vertical Road – Jayne Stevens