Somatics in Dance, Ecology, and Ethics

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Highly original essays by award-winning Sondra Fraleigh address the field of movement-based and dance somatics through lenses of ethics and ecology. Three new essays, new introductory material and postscript are included alongside essays previously published as journal articles brought together for the first time. 16 b/w illustrations. This book of highly original essays explores somatic practices in dance as they draw upon ecology and ethics; all of them speak to creativity in somatics and nonbinary whole-body consciousness. Sondra Fraleigh explores the relationships between self, world, and earth to understand the experience of being alive and corporeal, developing a philosophy of an ethical world gaze that promises to enliven the senses. Fraleigh describes the ways somatics can help people feel well, practice empathetic communication, and recognize the psychic, unpredictable edges of experience as they move. All of the essays are creatively threaded through phenomenology, research in neuroscience, and autotelic dance practices done for intrinsic benefits, not for the gaze of an audience. The entwinement of ethics with somatics is intended to provoke thoughtful engagement with theory and practice. Ethics extends toward ecology and somatic practice in these pages. This book of highly original essays addresses the field of movement-based and dance somatics through lenses of ethics and ecology. It is based in methods of phenomenology. A new collection of essays previously published with Intellect as journal articles, with the addition of new essays and editorial material. The text considers body-based somatic education relative to values, virtues, gender fluidity, lived experience, environmental awareness, fairness, and collective well-being. In delineating interdependent values of soma, ecology, and human movement that are newly in progress, the collection conceives links between personal development of subjective knowledge and cultural, critical, and environmental positionality. The text raises questions about defining somatics and self, gender dynamics, movement preferences, normative body conceptions, attention to feelings, inclusiveness, ethics of touch, and emotional intelligence in somatics contexts. I include these crucial concerns of somatics and ethics as relational, globally complex, and ongoing. Like much of Sondra Fraleigh’s writing, these essays utilize phenomenology as a method to investigate embodied relationships—often through lenses of ethics and aesthetics. In providing some examples, the text explores specific values of gratitude, listening, and emotional intelligence in somatic bodywork and learning environments.

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