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Choreography as Embodied Critical Inquiry: Embodied Cognition and Creative Movement
- Author: Welch, Shay
Choreography as Embodied Critical Inquiry: Embodied Cognition and Creative Movement
- Author: Welch, Shay
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In this book, Shay Welch expands on the contemporary cognitive thinking-in-movement framework, which has its roots in the work of Maxine Sheets-Johnstone but extends and develops within contemporary embodied cognition theory. Welch believes that dance can be used to ask questions, and this book offers a method of how critical inquiry can be embodied. First, she presents the theoretical underpinnings of what this process is and how it can work; second, she introduces the empirical method as a tool that can be used by movers for the purpose of doing embodied inquiry. Exploring the role of embodied cognition and embodied metaphors in mining the body for questions, Welch demonstrates how to utilize movement to explore embodied practices of knowing. She argues that our creative embodied movements facilitate our ability to bodily engage in critical analysis about the world.
Contents
- Chapter 1: Dance: What does it all mean, anyway?
- Dance and Meaning
- Phenomenology and the Embodied Mind
- Embodied Metaphors and Enactivism
- Overview
- Chapter 2: Critical Inquiry and Creative Cognition
- What is Critical Inquiry
- Creativity and Critical Inquiry
- Creative Cognition in Dance Research
- Chapter 3: Affect and Embodied Intuition
- Affect in Embodied Theories
- Affect as Intuition
- Embodied Intuition and Dance
- As Aside: Bergson, Nietzsche, and Embodied Intuition in Dance
- Chapter 4: Improvisation vs. Choreography
- Improv
- Choreo
- The Different Aims of Improv and Choreo
- Chapter 5: Embodied Critical Inquiry (Main chapter)
- Embodied Inquiry vs Phenomenological Method
- Embodied Cognition and Procedural Knowledge
- Embodied Cognition in Thinking in Movement
- Embodied Critical Inquiry as Thinking in Movement
- Dancing Critical Inquiry through Linguistic Bodies
- Chapter 6: The Priority of the Soma
- Somatics
- Soma and Embodied Intuition
- Somatics in Dance Movement Therapy
- Soma and the Cognitive Unconscious
- Chapter 7: Embodied Critical Inquiry and Enactivism
- Enactivism in Embodied Theories of Cognition
- Enactivism and Dancing Linguistic Bodies
- Embodied Metaphors in Enactivist Frameworks
- Chapter 8: Dance Methodology
- Theory Behind the Method
- Methodological Framework and Procedure
- Chapter 9: Results of Methodology experiments
- General Results
- Connie
- Shannon
- Julianna
- Chapter 10: Remaining concerns
