Falling Through Dance and Life
Emilyn Claid
This book is about falling, in dance and in life. Dance and movement-based performers understand how falling enhances life and creativity. An intentional practice of falling, experienced through somatic movement knowledge is a core element of dance practice, performance and movement-based therapy. This physical intentional falling deepens psychological awareness and inspires metaphorical representation, and underpins the ideas explored in this book. Falling can be dangerous and painful, so to suggest a falling practice - as a means to develop vitality - is a provocative core premise. Furthermore, Western culture resists falling in a drive towards verticality as emblematic of moral stature in defiance of fear and failure. A paradox emerges: by a practice of falling, we are consciously vulnerable and empowered as agents of change. A simple act of physical falling unleashes momentum throughout this writing and forges links with a wide range of performance from ballet to comedy, live art to circus. Implications ripple further to embrace shame, laughter and dying as shared experiences of falling through life.
ক্যাটাগোরিগুলো:
সাল:
2021
সংস্করণ:
1
প্রকাশক:
Bloomsbury Academic
ভাষা:
english
পৃষ্ঠা:
208
ISBN 10:
135007571X
ISBN 13:
9781350075719
বইয়ের সিরিজ:
(Dance in Dialogue)
ফাইল:
PDF, 2.45 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2021