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Experimental Dance and the Somatics of Language

Thinking in Micromovement

Megan V Nicely author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG

Published:13th Oct '23

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This book is about dance’s relationship to language. It investigates how dance bodies work with the micromovements elicited by language’s affective forces, and the micropolitics of the thought-sensations that arise when movement and words accompany one another within choreographic contexts. Situating itself where theory meets practice—the zone where ideas arise to be tested, the book draws on embodied research in practices within the lineages of American postmodern dance and Japanese butoh, set in dialog with affect-based philosophies and somatics. Understanding that language is felt, both when uttered and when unspoken, this book speaks to the choreographic thinking that takes place when language is considered a primary element in creating the sensorium.

ISBN: 9783031302954

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

251 pages

2023 ed.