The Place of Dance: A Somatic Guide to Dancing and Dance Making
Moshe Feldenkrais liked to speak about how to find “elegance” in movement, and he didn’t mean ornamentation, but rather an easy attention and reversibility. What goes away from a referenced point returns easily. These are all matters of moving consciously.
Catherine Schaeffer • Moving Consciously: Somatic Transformations through Dance, Yoga, and Touch
'It is necessary to unlearn space in order to embody space. It is necessary to unlearn how we see in order to see with our bodies. It is necessary to unlearn knowledge of our body in three dimensions in order to recover the real dimensionality of our body. Let's dance space. Let's re-space our bodies. Let's celebrate the feeling of presence.'
Nogueira de Menezes • #016 Unlearning time
Moving Consciously: Somatic Transformations through Dance, Yoga, and Touch
Kelly Ferris Lester • 4 highlights
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This book presents a version of what can happen when the whole body is allowed to move together. I hesitate to call it “normal,” but it is a pattern that is inherent within most of us—within the lines and grooves, contours and forms of our inherited anatomy. It is the relaxed, repetitive walking that allows our brains to be otherwise occupied, faci
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