[Adta] Dance, Movement, and Bodies

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Hi Sabine
This DOES sound like a very interesting event & one of our own, Joanna Harris IS on the program. If some of you attend, I hope you will report re your experience for us

Susan kleinman, MA, ADTR, NCC


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From: adta-bounces at adta.org [mailto:adta-bounces at adta.org] On Behalf Of Sabine Koch
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 7:16 PM
To: adta at adta.org
Subject: [Adta] Dance, Movement, and Bodies

You are closer than I am. ;-)
So please join this event, if you can.
It sure sounds very interesting!

Sabine Koch
Heidelberg, Germany



-	 THE PHILOCTETES CENTER FOR THE 
MULTIDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF IMAGINATION 
	at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute
	 
	 (EDWARD NERSESSIAN AND FRANCIS LEVY, CO-
DIRECTORS) 

	 Tuesday, June 26, 2007 at 7:00pm  (Workshop)

	 Wednesday, June 27, 2007 at 7:00pm  (Roundtable)

             The Philoctetes Center, 247 East 82nd Street
	 
 Dance, Movement, and Bodies: Forays into the Nonlinguistic and 
the Challenge of Languaging Experience 
 
The Movement Workshop, led by Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, will 
provide a communal experiential point of departure for forays into 
the nonlinguistic and the challenge of languaging  experience. The 
Workshop requires no formal movement training of any kind, no 
prior involvement in dance, gymnastics, 
or any particular sport activity. Neither does it involve learning new 
movement techniques or skills. It will draw on wholly natural kinetic 
dimensions of our humanness and basic facets of our interpersonal 
lives. You will be most comfortable if you wear non binding clothes 
and have no 
reservations about removing your shoes.
 
The following topics fall within the compass of the  Roundtable: 1) 
infants are not pre-linguistic�on the contrary, language is post-
kinetic; 2) thinking in movement is a natural mode of thinking for 
human as well as nonhuman animals; 3) a natural kinship exists 
between play and forms of dance 
improvisation; 4) the advent of bipedality opened enormous 
movement possibilities, especially the possibility of a new qualitative 
dynamic, i.e., ballistic movement, and thereby the possibility of 
exponentially variable kinetic dynamics; 5) the human range of 
movement and  the communicative 
powers of the human body are open-ended in terms of play and 
artistic creation; 5) movement does not simply take place in space 
and in time, but creates its own space, time, and force, and thereby 
its own unique dynamics; 6) dance is a comparatively neglected art 
form, perhaps because it 
prominences in unadulterated ways our bare humanness and utterly 
vulnerable bodies.
 
 Robert Fagen  is retired Professor of Biometry at the University of 
Alaska Fairbanks and studies dance in  Juneau, Alaska.  He is the 
author of  Animal Play Behavior , the novel  The Pawless Papers , 
and poems recently published in  Blue Unicorn ,  Common Ground 
Review , and  Tidal Echoes .   
Having completed the first several volumes of a sequence of novels 
entitled  Margot in Paradise , he is currently at work on the next.
 
Joanna Gewertz Harris  is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, 
therapist, dance historian and dance critic. She was a contributor to 
and editor of  IMPULSE , the San Francisco annual of contemporary 
dance, and the first editor of  American Journal of Dance Therapy . 
She has taught at UC Berkeley, UC 
Santa Cruz, Cal State Hayward, Sonoma State, Lone Mountain and 
Antioch College. She is currently on the faculty of Diablo Valley 
College, Emeritus College, instructor at the Modern Dance Center, 
Berkeley, and a teacher of special classes for seniors at Contra 
Costa Senior Living Centers. Her 
forthcoming book is  Beyond Isadora: Bay Area  Dancing, 1915-65 .
 
Steve Paxton  is a dancer and choreographer whose work has been 
recognized with "Bessie" awards and grants from the NEA, the 
Rockefeller Foundation, Contemporary Performance Arts 
Foundation, and Change, Inc.  His writing on dance has appeared in 
numerous publications, including the dance journal  
Contact Quarterly .
 
 Maxine Sheets-Johnstone  is an interdisciplinary scholar affiliated 
with the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. She 
was a  dancer/choreographer and professor of dance for 20 years 
prior to her professorship in philosophy. Her books include  The 
Phenomenology of Dance ,  The 
Roots of Thinking ,  The Roots of Power: Animate Form and 
Gendered Bodies , and  The Primacy of Movement . Forthcoming 
books include  The Roots of Morality  and  The Corporeal Turn: An 
Interdisciplinary Reader . She was recently awarded a Distinguished 
Fellowship for research on xenophobia by the 
Institute of Advanced Study at  Durham University (England) in 
conjunction with the Institute's inaugural program, "The Legacy of 
Charles Darwin."
 
Daniel N. Stern , M.D., is Professor of psychology at the University 
of Geneva and Adjunct Professor of psychiatry at Cornell University 
Medical Center's New York Hospital. An expert in the mother-infant 
relationship, he is the author of  The Interpersonal World of the 
Infant  and  The Present 
Moment in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life .
 
The event is free and open to  the public. Seating is on a first come 
basis.
	 
_______________________
	 
The mission of the Philoctetes Center is to foster the study of 
imagination -- funding research, organizing roundtable discussions, 
offering courses and programs open to the public. The Center 
publishes a newsletter, Dialog, and is developing a web-based 
clearing house on work related to 
imagination. In addition, the Center will publish its journal, 
Philoctetes, in the coming months. Visit  www.philoctetes.org  for 
more information. You may call at 646-422-0645.
 


-- 
Dr. Sabine C. Koch

Institute of Psychology
University of Heidelberg
Hauptstrasse 47-51
69117 Heidelberg/Germany

phone: ++49 (0) 6221 547297
eMail: sabine.koch at urz.uni-heidelberg.de

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