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Nine Ways of Seeing a Body

Name: Nine Ways of Seeing a Body
ISBN: 9781908009951

56 pages
English
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Nine Ways of Seeing a Body

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This book presents nine lenses through which the body is conventionally viewed. The body as object, the body as subject, the phenomenological body, the contextual body, the interdependent body, the environmental body, the cultural body and, finally, the ecological body. Designed to be a guide and stimulus for teachers, students and practitioners of dance, performance, movement, somatics and the arts therapies - and for anyone troubled by the idea of a brain on legs.

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Publisher

Triarchy Press

Year

2011

eBook ISBN

9781908009951

5

Lens 

1:

The

Body 

as

Object

Session 

1

F.

comes 

into 

the

village 

hall 

for

an

individual 

movement 

session. 

She

is

a

photographer, 

aged 

around 

55,

living 

locally, 

who

sees 

nature 

as

one

of

the

primary 

inspirations 

in

her

work. 

She

spends 

most 

of

her

time 

outside 

walking 

and

exploring 

diﬀerent 

environments. 

She

spends 

a

lot

of

time 

alone. 

When 

she

takes 

a

photograph, 

she

describes 

herself 

as

‘losing 

her

body’ 

and

as

focusing 

through 

her

eyes, 

to

the

exclusion 

of

sounds, 

which 

she

says 

she

does 

not

hear. 

She

experiences 

herself 

as

being 

separate 

om 

the

environment 

captured 

in

her

photographs. 

Instead 

of

sensing 

herself 

as

part 

of

the

situation, 

she

feels 

that 

she

positions 

herself 

in

overview. 

She

has

two

aims 

in

engaging 

in

movement 

practice. 

e 

ﬁrst 

is

to

develop 

a

more 

embodied 

approach 

to

her

photography. 

She

hopes 

that 

this 

will 

inﬂuence 

the

sense 

of

rhythm 

and

involved 

participation 

in

her

photographs. 

e 

second 

is

to

‘keep 

her

body 

ﬂexible’, 

as

she

is

worried 

about 

getting 

stiﬀer 

in

the

joints, 

and

the

fact 

that 

she

has

pain 

developing 

in

her

right 

shoulder.

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COVER
COVER2
CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction
Lens 1: The Body as Object
Lens 2: The Body as Subject
Lens 3: The Phenomenological Body
Lens 4: The Somatic Body
Lens 5: The Contextual Body
Lens 6: The Interdependent Body
Lens 7: The Environmental Body
Lens 8: The Cultural Body
Lens 9: The Ecological Body
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author
About the Publisher
Backcover

About this book

Frequently asked questions

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