Title: Mindful movement : the evolution of the somatic arts and conscious action /
Authors: Eddy, Martha
Year: 2016
Subjects: Movement education.
Abstract: This book uses original interviews, case studies, and practice-led research to define the origins of a new holistic field—somatic movement education and therapy­—and its impact on fitness, ecology, politics, and performance. It reveals the role dance has played in informing and inspiring the historical and cultural narrative of somatic arts. Providing an overview of the antecedents and recent advances in somatic study and with contributions by diverse experts, it highlights the role of Asian movement, the European physical culture movement and its relationship to the performing arts, and female perspectives in developing somatic movement, somatic dance, social somatics, somatic fitness, somatic dance and spirituality, and ecosomatics.
Contents: Influences and development of somatic education. Introduction and overview : the what and why of somatic education -- The first generation : founders of somatic education technique -- Second generation : set one, the influence of dance on somatic education -- European antecedents to somatic movement / Kelly Jean Mullan -- Global roots of somatic movement : Asian and African influences / Sangeet Duchane -- The emergence of somatic movement education and therapy. Second generation : set two, dynamic approaches to well-being in dance and fitness -- Third generation : the amalgams, somatic movement education and therapy today -- The universities and somatic inquiry : the growth of somatic movement dance education in Britain / Sara Reed and Sarah Whatley -- How dance has helped situate academic fields of somatic inquiry : case study University of Illinois-Urbana / Rebecca Nettl-Fiol -- Somatic movement and dance education in pre-K-12 education / Kate Tarlow Morgan, Eve Selver-Kassell, Lauren Lipman and Mary Ann Brehm --