Chapter 2.3 Fostering attentional awareness for connectedness, with agility and empathy as core values

• Yazar: Seago, Catherine (auth)
• Materyal Türü: Elektronik Kitap Bölümü
• Dil: İngilizce
• Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Taylor & Francis 2024
• Konular: Theatre studies; Acting techniques; Ballroom dancing; Ballet; Folk dancing; Dance & other performing arts; Contemporary dance; Choreography; Ballroom, Theatre, Performance, Dance, Jazz
• Online Erişim: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Özet

This chapter considers how dance technique practice can foster an agile and empathetic use of attention. It builds upon a recent action research project exploring how attention is commonly viewed and valued in dance training and how a bricolage-style approach to classes can encourage inter-connectedness with others, as well as amongst ideas and practices. Drawing on ideas of flow (Csikszentmihalyi, Claxton) this chapter argues that greater awareness of how we attend in practicing physical agility together can help dancers to develop an ethical agility through being present and sensitive to all that is happening in the dance class. The discussion reflects on the ways in which interconnectedness can be cultivated through an agile and empathetic use of attention and the implicit value of realising connections within and beyond dance skills development.

Fiziksel Özellikler

1 electronic resource (15 p.)

ISBN

9781003111146-11
9780367628673
9780367628635

Erişim

Open Access