Doran George (UCLA )

The Natural Body in Somatics Dance Training

Herausgeber: Foster, Susan Leigh

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Natural Body in Somatics Training looks at what happens in the dance studio as dancers learn physical skills and in doing so also assimilate aesthetic, ethical, and political values. It takes us backstage so as to show how dancers come to share certain beliefs and opinions and thereby come to form community

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 158mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 344g
• ISBN-13: 9780197538746
• ISBN-10: 0197538746
• Artikelnr.: 59480546

Autorenporträt

Doran George was on the Faculty of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA. Susan Leigh Foster is Distinguished Professor of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA.

Inhaltsangabe

* Editor's Note
* Introduction: In Search of the Natural Body
* Chapter 1. Renewable Originality: The Natural Body and Late Twentieth
Century Social Change
* Chapter 2. Contradictory Dissidence: Somatics and American
Expansionism
* Chapter 3: Somatics Bodies on the Concert Stage: Processing,
Inventing, and Displaying
* Conclusion: Understanding the Focus on Natural Authenticity
* Endnotes
* Appendix: Brief Biographies of Some Key Somatics Practitioners
* Bibliography