Spiritual herstories : call of the soul in dance research /: call of the soul in dance research. ([2020])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Amanda Williamson, Barbara Sellers-Young.
• Editors: (Editor), Williamson, Amanda; Sellers-Young, Barbara
• Contents: Preface: Dancing Incantations – Celeste Snowber Introduction – Amanda Williamson and Barbara Sellers-Young Part One: Patriarchal Critique and Spiritual Feminist Perspectives – Amanda Williamson Chapter 1: Woman, body, earth and spirit: Journeys of descent through myth, embodiment and movement practice – Linda Hartley Chapter 2: Informed by the Goddess: Explicating a processual methodology – Jane Bacon Chapter 3: Until The Lions: Amba’s story – Jayne Stevens Chapter 4: Symbols of the Goddess in Balkan Women’s Dance – Laura Shannon Chapter 5: Spirals and circles: Sensing her: Matrifocal symbolism in the field of Somatic Movement Dance Education and Therapy – Amanda Williamson Chapter 6: Soul loss and retrieval: Restoring wholeness through dance – Eline Kieft Chapter 7: Reclaiming our innate vitality: Bringing embodied narratives to life through Dance Movement Psychotherapy – Caroline Frizell Part Two: Somatic Ethnography, Diasporic Spiritualities and Postcolonial Voices – Barbara Sellers-Young Chapter 8: Dancing bodies and ritual spaces: Diaspora practices of transcendence and conversion – Yvonne Daniel Chapter 9: ‘Niimikaage’ into the twenty-first century – Sandra Laronde and Elaine Keillor Chapter 10: Unearthing the presence of African women dancers in Nyanza province, 1900–40 – Seonagh Kummer Chapter 11: Love Poems to God: The contemplative artistry of Dianne McIntyre – Veta Goler Chapter 12: Dancing the Four Directions: The spirit of intuition – Rosalie Jones Chapter 13: Souls, soil and soma: Memoirs of Japan and Guåhan/Guam in (post)colonial times – Ojeya Cruz Banks and Miriam Marler Chapter 14: Dancing through myself: Memory, identity, spirituality – Barbara Sellers-Young Part Three: Spiritual Journeys in Dance Research – Amanda Williamson and Barbara Sellers-Young Chapter 15: Writing Why We Dance: The predicament, pitfalls, potential and promise of writing about dance and spirituality – Kimerer L. LaMothe Chapter 16: Mystery, magic and the mundane: A dancer’s journey in the liturgy of life – Celeste Snowber Chapter 17: Creativity as medicine – Janet Lynn Roseman Chapter 18: Dancing evolutionary spirituality – Cheryl Pallant Chapter 19: Attunement and evanescence – Sondra Fraleigh Chapter 20: Awakening the spirit through dance, somatics and Scaravelli Yoga – Sara Reed Chapter 21: Spirituality in Aurelia Baumgartner’s Tanzphilosophie – Aurelia Baumgartner and Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe
• Publisher Details: Bristol : Intellect Books
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 544 pages ), illustrations
• Subjects: 792.8082; Women dancers; Dance -- Research; Dance -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Dance -- Religious aspects -- Christianity; Dance -- Research; Women dancers
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789380835; 1789380839
• Related ISBNs: 9781789380828; 1789380820
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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