This anthology brings a focus to practice research in which moving bodies and creative processes are imperatives. It brings together a diverse range of researchers and performers who present innovative research through single authored and co-authored projects that trouble the notion that there are limited ways of researching and performing.
As the anthology unfolds, readers are invited to consider the many different ways in which (em)bodied research and performance generates new knowledge; that is new ways of seeing the world. The approaches include phenomenology, new materialism, posthumanism, arts-based research, autoethnography, case study and ecofeminist methodologies. The wide range of methodologies performed in the book illustrate the multiple (infinite) possibilities of practice research, each of which are uniquely situated within personal, professional, spacio-temporal and socio-political contexts that enable inquiry to emerge and submerge as responsive processes. The contributors represent a wide representation from mother-artists, to psychoanalytic practitioners, to community dance artists, to performers, to somatic therapists to arts psychotherapists. Their research and performance includes non-stylised movement, improvisational dance and dance as participation in the world.
This book democratises the idea that creative moving bodies are a practice research resource that can enable each of us to become part of the wider world. It is a useful resource for students, researchers and professionals in art therapies, somatic practice and arts performance.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Chapter 1
Can we go a bit slower? Ethical meanderings through practice research: creating knowledge through and towards cultures of care.
Caroline Frizell and Marina Rova
Chapter 2
The entangled research team: research inquiry through collective and diffractive engagement with data.
Caroline Frizell, Juliet Diener, Mark Taylor and Nicola Fay Weston
Chapter 3
Creative Voices Collective: Empowering Communities Through Art and Expression.
Esme Green
Chapter 4
Embodied investigation and performance activism as a catalyst for change.
Dagmara Bilon
Chapter 5
Dear IZZI , Hi Mum.
A soft approach to a movement practice between mother and daughter.
Sarah Black-Frizell
Chapter 6
Exploring radical self-care and community empowerment through The Body Room
Marina Rova, Emma Shapiro, Katherine Brown
Chapter 7
Processes Evolving in the Wood Wide Web of Be-coming Tree
O.Pen Be (AKA Penelope Best), Orcid, Danièle J Minns and Jatun Risba
Chapter 8
A journey through personal landscapes: An autoethnographic study of the embodied sense of place
Johanna Rönkkö
Chapter 9
Dwelling within the body’s forgotten and neglected garden. Have you been on your bench today?
Sue Curtis
Chapter 10
aRTSjAM. A therapists’ collective for embodied processing and being
Cornelia Bent, Céline Butté, Marina Rova, Geoffery Unkovich and Diana Whelan Porter
Chapter 11
Opening Doors to Peer Supervision
Hannah Murdoch and Sue Curtis
Chapter 12
In Search of Existential Joy
Allyson Vuli
Chapter 13
Pushing beyond limits and realigning together
Lorna Hauff
Chapter 14
Weaving the threads of trainer/trainee perspectives on embodied relational research during training; a tapestry of personal and communal transformation.
Yeva Feldman and Annie Dearnley
Chapter 15
Connection through separation: negotiating boundaries in dance movement psychotherapy with psychosis
Klaudia Wittmann
Chapter 16
Living the questions
Nicola Fay Weston
Chapter 17
Scratching Beneath the Surface: In Search of Belonging
Claire Burrell, Alice Sara and Emma Teixidor-Creighton
Chapter 18
Echoes across the generations; the relationship between mover and witness in audience responses to an autobiographical performance
Ditty Dokter
Chapter 19
Mapping the lived experience of a cultural nomad through relational stories that move
Marina Rova
Chapter 20
Precarious health: Moving bodies and affirmative ethics
Amanda Light
Chapter 21
Research and lived-experience; multi-directional spillage
Caroline Frizell
Epilogue
Caroline Frizell and Marina Rova
Index
About the Author :
Caroline Frizell, PhD, UKCP, RADMP, Dip. Sup. SAP is a research active, Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. She works as a private practitioner and consultant both indoors and in outdoor environments. Caroline brings principles of eco-feminism to her work as researcher, writer, educator and practitioner.
Marina Rova PhD, MA, PGDip, BA Hons, SAP Dip is a Senior Lecturer, PhD supervisor and researcher at Goldsmiths University of London and clinical supervisor in private practice. She continues to explore creative inquiry as practice through collaborative writing and research projects.
