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Author Welch, Shay, author.

Title Choreography as embodied critical inquiry : embodied cognition and creative movement / Shay Welch
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 246 pages) : illustrations
Contents Dancing: Phenomenology and Embodied Cognition -- Critical Inquiry: Creative Movement and Embodied Cognition -- Movement-Knowings: Affect and Embodied Intuition -- Somatics: Improvisation and Feeling-Practices -- Embodied Critical Inquiry: A Theory -- Enactivism and Embodied Critical Inquiry -- Embodied Critical Inquiry: A Method -- The Movers: Results
Summary In this book, Shay Welch expands on the contemporary cognitive thinking-in-movement framework, which has its roots in the work of Maxine Sheets-Johnstone but extends and develops within contemporary embodied cognition theory. Welch believes that dance can be used to ask questions, and this book offers a method of how critical inquiry can be embodied. First, she presents the theoretical underpinnings of what this process is and how it can work; second, she introduces the empirical method as a tool that can be used by movers for the purpose of doing embodied inquiry. Exploring the role of embodied cognition and embodied metaphors in mining the body for questions, Welch demonstrates how to utilize movement to explore embodied practices of knowing. She argues that our creative embodied movements facilitate our ability to bodily engage in critical analysis about the world. Shay Welch is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Spelman College, the 20202021 Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundation Distinguished Research/Creative Scholar, and Chair of the Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 12, 2022)
Subject Choreography -- Philosophy
Dance -- Philosophy.
Choreography -- Psychological aspects
Dance -- Psychological aspects
Choreography -- Philosophy
Choreography -- Psychological aspects
Dance -- Philosophy
Dance -- Psychological aspects
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783030934958
3030934950