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Thinking Touch in Partnering and Contact Improvisation Philosophy, Pedagogy, Practice.

What happens when artists take touch as a starting point for embodied research? This collection of essays offers unique insights into contact in dance, by considering the importance of touch in choreography, philosophy, scientific research, social dance, and education. The performing arts have benef...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sarco-Thomas, Malaika, 1980- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publisher, 2020.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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520 |a What happens when artists take touch as a starting point for embodied research? This collection of essays offers unique insights into contact in dance, by considering the importance of touch in choreography, philosophy, scientific research, social dance, and education. The performing arts have benefitted from the growth of an ever-widening spectrum of tactile explorations since the advent of contact improvisation (CI) in 1972. Building on the research proposal CI offers, partnering forms such as tango, martial arts, and somatic therapies have helped shape the landscape of embodied practices in. 
505 0 |a Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: Choreographies of Touch -- Chapter One -- The touch tour -- Stealth access -- Equal consideration, not equivalent experiences -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Two -- 1. Introduction to Gaga immersive study, based on experiencing touch improvisation -- 1.1 Touch and tuning by touch -- 1.2 Touch in Gaga -- 1.3 Touch of Flesh -- 2. Partnering work in Gaga, (some empirical notes from Tel Aviv Summer Intensive Course 2016) -- 2.1 The politics of boundaries 
505 8 |a 2.2 The physicality of touch -- 2.3 Touch as empowerment -- 2.4 "Overwhelm yourself" -- 3. Flesh as empathy -- 3.1 Dramaturgy of touch in Gaga -- 3.2 Touch as expanding relations -- 3.3 Touch as knowing -- 4. Perspectives -- References -- Chapter Three -- Scott Wells -- Charlie Morrissey -- Part II: Studies of Touch -- Chapter Four -- Introduction -- The body we live in -- The body in our mind -- The sense of touch -- Researching touch: observe and measure subjective experiences -- Objective measures -- Research in practice -- The experiment: "Random Body Workshop" -- Workshop aims 
505 8 |a Participants, procedure, and tasks -- Observations -- Discussion and outlook -- References -- Chapter Five -- What is contact improvisation good for? -- CI as movement therapy -- The health sciences student journey -- Improvisation in the medical humanities -- Contact improvisation and the health humanities -- Case study: CI for health care students at the University of Malta -- Background -- Method -- Results -- Limitations -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter Six -- Touching -- Developing a method -- Teaching through invitation -- Approach creations -- Laboratory 1 -- Laboratory 2 
505 8 |a Laboratory 3 -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter Seven -- Overview -- Introduction -- Researching touch in tango -- Exploring touch between the inside and outside worlds -- Touch as a medium of kinaesthetic contagion -- Giving and receiving touch: a kinaesthetic exploration -- Feeling into and being felt by another -- The tango touch as a contagious experience -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Pedagogies of Touch -- Chapter Eight -- Introduction -- Thinking of touch -- Teaching contact improvisation -- What about touch in "Essentials" from Contact Quarterly? 
505 8 |a Touch in contact improvisation -- Training the senses to dance contact improvisation -- References -- Chapter Nine -- References -- Chapter Ten -- Introduction -- Overarching pedagogical principles and methods -- Touch in the practices that inspire "attunement" -- A. Somatics: "touch as sensing" -- B. Contact improvisation: "touch as dynamic exchange of forces" -- C. Eastern European laboratory theatre: "narrative touch" -- Frame 1: Touchings -- Frame 2: Yes, No, Maybe, and other variations -- A synthesis -- References -- Part IV: Philosophies of Touch -- Chapter Eleven 
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