You are invited to the next Performing Arts Research Seminar hosted by the School of Music and Performing Arts at Canterbury Christ Church University.

We are pleased to welcome Professor Sarah Whatley – Professor of Dance and Director of Centre for Dance Research (C–DaRE) at Coventry University to give a guest lecture on the topic: ‘Attending to movement: somatic processes, practices and pedagogies’. 

Other speakers are: Dr Kene Igweonu (Canterbury Christ Church University) – ‘Awareing: Feldenkrais Method and performance training’ and Mo Pietroni-Spenst (Canterbury Christ Church University) who will talk about her practice-based PhD research – ‘The gestural body in performance’.

Please see below for details.

All welcome, attendance is free and there is no need to book.

 

Canterbury Christ Church University

School of Music and Performing Arts

Research Seminar Series

Performing Arts in Dialogue with… Somatic Practice 

 

Wednesday, 2nd March 2016 (1.00-3.00pm) 

Maxwell Davies Building (MDg01)

North Holmes Road Campus

 

Guest Speaker:

Professor Sarah Whatley, Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), Coventry University

Attending to movement: somatic processes, practices and pedagogies

Professor Whatley’s lecture would cover some of the development of the philosophy of somatic work and touch on the way in which different somatic modalities have entered the curriculum and influenced approaches to performance/dance training. It also looks at the tensions that emerge in the discourse that is rooted in somatic practices and which has spawned a range of publications, particularly that which talks of transforming, repairing and healing the body.

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