This edited collection draws on the conference, Attending to Movement: Somatic Perspectives on Living in this World, run at C-DaRE, the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University, 12 - 14 July, 2013.

Somatic practitioners, dance artists and scholars from a wide range of subject domains cross discipline borders and investigate the approaches that embodied thinking and action can offer to philosophical and socio-cultural inquiry.

The book celebrates and builds upon the work of visionary dance artist, teacher and scholar Gill Clarke (1954 -2011), who championed the value of somatic approaches within and beyond dance education and creative practice.
This collection of papers covers the themes of:

Somatics in the wider social context
Pedagogy/Education
Intercultural Dialogues
Lived lineages
Interplay of practice and writing

Partial Contents

As my attention is wandering: A score for somatic enquiry - Carolyn Roy
Not Without My Body: The Struggle of Dancers and Choreographers in the Middle East - Nadra Assaf
Disorganising Principles: Corporeal Fragmentation and the Possibilities for Repair - Jennifer Roche
Attending to ethics and aesthetics in dance - Fiona Bannon & Duncan Holt
At dusk, the collaborative spills and cycles of L219 - Cath Cullinane, Natalie Garrett Brown, Christian Kipp & Amy Voris
The Art of Making Choices: The Feldenkrais Method as a soma-critique - Thomas Kampe
Motion Capture and The Dancer: Visuality, Temporality and the Dancing Image - Sarah Whatley
The fool's journey and poisonous mushrooms - Adam Benjamin
'The daily round the common task': Embodied Practice and the Dance of the Everyday - Hilary Kneale
Re-sourcing the body: embodied presence and self-care in working with others - Penny Collinson
Thinking, Reflecting and Contemplating With the Body - Lalitaraja (Joachim Chandler)
Mythbusting: Using the Alexander Technique to free yourself from detrimental misconceptions in the performing arts - Jennifer Mackerras & Jane Toms
A Moving and Touching Career in Dance and Chiropractic - Duncan Holt
Attending to movement: the need to make dance that was different to that which went before - Sara Reed
Towards a constructive interaction between somatic education and introspective verbalization - Nicole Harbonnier-Topin & Helen Simard
Choreographic Mobilities: Embodied Migratory Acts Across the US-Mexico Border - Juan Manuel Aldape Munoz

Readership
Designed as a guide and stimulus for: teachers,students and practitioners of dance and somatic practices researchers and academics in these fields.