Floating Bones: A Dancer's Tensegretic Body as Teacher - Softcover

Roses-Thema, Cynthia

 
9780367634599: Floating Bones: A Dancer's Tensegretic Body as Teacher
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0367634597 ISBN 13: 9780367634599
Publisher: Routledge, 2022

Synopsis

Floating Bones charts the author’s journey into tensegrity, which begins in ballet and culminates in a model for addressing one’s body as a teacher.

Tensegrity flips traditional biomechanical models such that instead of support coming from the bones, the bones float, and it is the muscles and other soft connective tissue that provide support for the moving body. Using the model of tensegretic experience, Roses-Thema connects somatics, cognition, rhetoric, and reflective practices detailing the means that constructed approaching the body as a teacher. This study presents the argument for extending the models of thinking to include bodily thinking, by citing how the experiential perspective of tensegrity constructs physical evidence of the rhetorical concept, metis, where the body thinks as it moves.

This book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners of dance, theater, and sociology.

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About the Author

Cynthia Roses-Thema is a Principal Lecturer in the School of Film, Dance and Theatre at Arizona State University, USA.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367634597
ISBN 13 
9780367634599
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
112

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