Choreography as embodied critical inquiry : embodied cognition and creative movement / Shay Welch.
"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 bo...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham, Switzerland :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2022.
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book Springer Humanities and Social Science eBook Collection 2022 English/International |
| 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"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 244 pages) : illustrations (some colour) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 3030934950 9783030934958 |