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20 contemporary approaches to the study and experience of embodied awareness.

Brings together 12 contemporary approaches to the body, all being used by performers or in the context of performance training. These 12 'lenses' share the notion of body as flux and no fixed/determined sense of self. They draw on approaches like Alexander technique, BMC, Feldenkrais, authentic movement.

This book presents nine lenses through which the body is conventionally viewed. The body as object, the body as subject, the phenomenological body, the contextual body, the interdependent body, the environmental body, the cultural body and, finally, the ecological body. Designed to be a guide and stimulus for teachers, students and practitioners of dance, performance, movement, somatics and the arts therapies - and for anyone troubled by the i...