Dancing: phenomenology and embodied cognition. Phenomenological meaning in dance ; Phenomenology and the embodied mind ; Embodied metaphors and enactivism ; Dance and embodied metaphor ; Overview ; Bibliography -- Critical inquiry: creative movement and embodied cognition. Critical inquiry and creativity ; Creative cognition in dance ; Creative movement and curiosing ; Bibliography -- Movement-knowings: affect and embodied intuition. Affect: from functionalism to enactivism ; Kinestheia and intuition ; Bibliography -- Somatics: improvisation and feeling-practices. Choreography and improvisation ; Somatic work ; The priority of somatics ; Bibliography -- Embodied critical inquiry: a theory. The epistemology of thinking-in-movement ; Epistemology and dancing metaphors ; Inquiring-in-movement ; Embodied dialogues ; Bibliography -- Enactivism and embodied critical inquiry. Dancing as naturalized phenomenology ; Movement-knowings and linguistic bodies ; Dancing metaphors and enactivism ; Bibliography -- Embodied critical inquiry: a method. Somatic exercises ; Process: inquiry to narrative ; Worksheets ; Some commentary ; Bibliography -- The movers: results. Constance ; Shannon ; Deena ; Sorsha.
Summary:
"In this book, Shay Welch expands on the contemporary cognitive thinking-in-movement framework, which has its roots in the world 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 of the world"-- Back cover.
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