This edited collection draws on the conference,Attending to Movement: Somatic Perspectives on Living in this World, run at C-DaRE, the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University, 12 - 14 July, 2013.

Somatic practitioners, dance artists and scholars from a wide range of subject domains cross discipline borders and investigate the approaches that embodied thinking and action can offer to philosophical and socio-cultural inquiry.

The book celebrates and builds upon the work of visionary dance artist, teacher and scholarGill Clarke (1954 -2011), who championed the value of somatic approaches within and beyond dance education and creative practice.

Contents

PART ONE - INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUES
Carol Brown: So, Remember the Liquid Ground
Lalitaraja: Thinking, Reflecting and Contemplating With the Body
Nadra Assaf: Not Without My Body
Juan Manuel Aldape Muñoz: Choreographic Mobilities

PART TWO - SOMATICS IN A WIDER SOCIAL CONTEXT
Thomas Kampe: The Art of Making Choices
Lizzy Le Quesne: An Intricate Field
Somaticatica (Bernadette Cronin, Jools Gilson, Roisin O'Gorman): Embodied Adventures in and out of the Irish Countryside

PART THREE - INTERPLAY OF PRACTICE AND WRITING
Adam Benjamin: The Fool's Journey and Poisonous Mushrooms
Cath Cullinane, Natalie Garrett Brown, Christian Kipp& Amy Voris: At Dusk, the Collaborative Spills and Cycles of L219
Carolyn Roy: As My Attention is Wandering
Sally E. Dean: Amerta Movement and Somatic Costume
Hilary Kneale: 'The Daily Round, The Common Task'
Sarah Whatley: Motion Capture and The Dancer

PART FOUR - PEDAGOGY/EDUCATION
Sara Reed: Attending to Movement
Fiona Bannon and Duncan Holt: Attending to Ethics and Aesthetics in Dance
Penny Collinson: Re-sourcing the Body
Nicole Harbonnier-Topin and Helen Simard: Somatic Education and Introspective Verbalisation

PART FIVE - LIVED LINEAGES
Jenny Roche: Disorganising Principles
Jennifer Mackerras and Jane Toms - Myth-Busting
Duncan Holt: A Moving and Touching Career in Dance and Chiropractic
Martha Eddy: Early Trends

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Sarah Whatley is Professor of Dance and Director of the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) at Coventry University.

Dr Natalie Garrett Brow  is principal lecturer in dance at Coventry University, UK, where she contributes to the BA(Hons) Dance course and co-ordinates postgraduate provision for the Performing Arts Department.

Kirsty Alexander studied law and then trained in contemporary dance. She performed with a diverse range of artists including Gill Clarke, Rosemary Butcher, Gaby Agis, Michael Clarke, Station House Opera and Michel Laub.