Body and Performance

20 contemporary approaches to the study and experience of embodied awareness. Our growing understanding of embodied awareness is one of the most extraordinary areas of contemporary research and practice. It is transdisciplinary and multifaceted--it has no subject listing in academia, but is of central importance to those interested in understanding art, dance, the psychology of health, learning and development, trauma, the psycho-ecology of extinction and climate change, proprioception and interoception, ecological awareness, meditation, and the need for societal transformation in an age of multiple convergent crises. This is a guide to the subject from 20 contemporary practitioners.

Sandra Reeve is a movement artist, director, teacher and dance movement psychotherapist living in West Dorset, where her international ’Move into Life’ programme of courses and events is based. She is known for her work on movement dynamics, ecological lenses and ecological movement. She completed a PhD in Performance Practice at the University of Exeter in 2009 where she remains an Honorary Fellow. Her thesis was on ’The Ecological Body’. She writes for Routledge, Intellect and others, is co-editor of ’Embodied Lives’ and ’Body & Performance’ and author of ’Nine Ways of Seeing a Body’.