New. The Speaking Dancer: Finding Humanity through the Embodied Voice
- Author: Lansley, Jacky
New. The Speaking Dancer: Finding Humanity through the Embodied Voice
- Author: Lansley, Jacky
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The Speaking Dancer offers a rich and thought-provoking exploration of radical interdisciplinary dance and performance within a broad political and philosophical context that investigates its wider impact on humanity.
In dialogue with other international practitioners, author Jacky Lansley draws on her work in dance, visual/performance art, film, theatre and academia to examine how ideas and meaning 'speak' through the body as well as the voice. Entrenched in feminist discussions of the gendered body and offering a space where dance practitioners can move beyond gender stereotypes, the book draws on a wide range of holistic, artistic, philosophical and socio-political discourses and practices to examine the importance of the thinking body and the integration of the conscious and unconscious in art and life.
This book is ideal for students and practitioners of dance, choreography, theatre, performance and live art, as well as researchers exploring the significance of the embodied voice in promoting the well-being of human societies.
Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Interdisciplinary Aesthetics of Radical Dance
- Theatre Landscapes and Memories - Finding a Voice through
- Movement
- The Actor Dancer - Vocabularies and Processes
- Plays and Playing
- Visual Landscapes - Abstraction, Image and the Everyday
- The Object-hood of Dance and Gesture
- 2. Emotional Embodiment as Life and Art
- Knowing Children
- Being Present in all Senses
- Other Animals
- The Good The Bad and The Ugly Swan
- Dance as Healing and Empowerment
- Anything can be a Dance
- 3. The Speaking Dancer as Feminist Metaphor and Practice
- Do you know where your perineum is?
- What are you looking at?
- 4. Different Voices - Dance as Political Activism
- Migration and Dance
- Reclaiming the creative context of Black Dance in the UK
- The political voice of Black Dance
- Defying Ageism with Dance
- Protecting the Planet through Art and Collaboration
- Why artists are important
- Conclusion
