[Adta] Dance, Movement, and Bodies

[Ilene Serlin]

Hi all,

Just to second a recommendation for Maxine Sheets-Johnstone. I used  
her work on philosophy and movement for my dissertation on the  
phenomenological foundation of movement as a language called  
Kinaesthetic Imagining. Her main article that was so helpful to me was:
Sheets-Johnstone, M. (1978). "The Passage Rites of the Body- a  
Phenomenological Account of Change in Dance".  Appeared under a  
different title in Leonardo.

Best,

Ilene

On Oct 21, 2007, at 2:32 PM, Hervey, Lenore wrote:

>
> AND Maxine Sheets-Johnstone is the newest member of the editorial  
> board of the American Journal of Dance Therapy, Her work is of  
> importance to dance/movement therapists, as she articulates much of  
> what we rely on kinesthetically but often inarticulately. I would  
> recommend her work to any dance/movement therapist. I wish I had  
> the chance to attend!
>
> Lenore
>
> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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