Dance, Somatics and Spiritualities: Contemporary Sacred Narratives

Contents

• Introduction
• Amanda Williamson, Glenna Batson and Sarah Whatley
• Part I: Moving Spiritualities - Amanda Williamson
• Chapter 1: Embodiment of Spirit: From Embryology to Authentic Movement as Embodied Relational Spiritual Practice - Linda Hartley
• Chapter 2: The Alchemy of Authentic Movement: Awakening Spirit in the Body - Tina Stromsted
• Chapter 3: Dancing in the Spirit of Sophia - Jill Hayes
• Chapter 4: Body Ensouled, Enacted and Entranced: Movement/Dance as Transformative Art - Daria Halprin
• Chapter 5: Dancing on the Breath of Limbs: Embodied Inquiry as a Place of Opening - Celeste Snowber
• Chapter 6: 'Can They Dance?': Towards a Philosophy of Bodily Becoming - Kimerer L. LaMothe
• Part II: Reflections on the Intersections of Spiritualities and Pedagogy - Sarah Whatley
• Chapter 7: Reflections on the Spiritual Dimensions of Somatic Movement Dance Education - Martha Eddy, Amanda Williamson and Rebecca Weber
• Chapter 8: Postmodern Spirituality? A Personal Narrative - Jill Green
• Chapter 9: Working Like a Farmer: Towards an Embodied Spirituality - Helen Poynor
• Chapter 10: Intimate to Ultimate: The Meta-Kinesthetic Flow of Embodied Engagement - Glenna Batson
• Chapter 11: Permission and the Making of Consciousness - Sondra Fraleigh
• Chapter 12: Conversations about the Somatic Basis of Spiritual Experiences - Sylvie Fortin, Ninoska Gomez, Yvan Joly, Linda Rabin, Odile Rouquet and Lawrence Smith
• Chapter 13: Inner Dance-Spirituality and Somatic Practice in Dance Technique, Choreography and Performance - Kathleen Debenham and Pat Debenham
• Chapter 14: This Indivisible Moment: A Meditation on Language, Spirit, Magic and Somatic Practice - Ray Schwartz
• Chapter 15: Global Somatics (TM) Process: A Contemporary Shamanic Approach - Suzanne River, interviewed by Kathleen Melin
• Part III: Cultural Immersions and Performance Excursions - Glenna Batson
• Chapter 16: Dancing N/ om - Hillary Keeney and Bradford Keeney
• Chapter 17: Dancing with the Divine: Dance Education and the Embodiment of Spirit, from Bali to America - Susan Bauer
• Chapter 18: The Sacrum and the Sacred: Mutual Transformation of Performer and Site through Ecological Movement in a Sacred Site - Sandra Reeve
• Chapter 19: Dancing and Flourishing: Mindful Meditation in Dance-Making and Performing - Sarah Whatley and Naomi Lefebvre Sell
• Chapter 20: 'What You Cannot Imagine': Spirituality in Akram Khan's Vertical Road - Jayne Stevens