Outputs (9)

Movement as Method: Some Existential and Epistemological Reflections on Dance in the Health Humanities (2021)
Journal Article

The embodied creative practice of dance facilitates a particular kind of awareness or attunement which can inform both the therapeutic and the intellectual work of the Health Humanities. This paper therefore considers dance as a way of 'doing' Health... Read More about Movement as Method: Some Existential and Epistemological Reflections on Dance in the Health Humanities.

Capoeira (2020)
Book Chapter

Capoeira for beginners: self-benefit for, and community action by, new Capoeiristas (2018)
Journal Article

Capoeira could be defined as a Brazilian martial art and game to be played. This research explored how capoeira play might be considered to facilitate connectedness amongst newly-recruited persons, plus any other ramifications of capoeira involvement... Read More about Capoeira for beginners: self-benefit for, and community action by, new Capoeiristas.

Dancing intercorporeality: a health humanities perspective on dance as a healing art (2017)
Journal Article

As a contribution to the burgeoning field of health humanities, this paper seeks to explore the power of dance to mitigate human suffering and reacquaint us with what it means to be human through bringing the embodied practice of dance into dialogue... Read More about Dancing intercorporeality: a health humanities perspective on dance as a healing art.

'Being in your body' and 'Being in the moment': the dancing body-subject and inhabited transcendence (2017)
Journal Article

Sports studies is currently dominated by the intellectualist approach to understanding skill and expertise, meaning that questions about the phenomenological nature of skilled performance in sport have generally been overshadowed by the emphasis on t... Read More about 'Being in your body' and 'Being in the moment': the dancing body-subject and inhabited transcendence.

Dancing like a girl: physical competence and emotional vulnerability in professional contemporary dance (2017)
Journal Article

The analysis presented here is based on a phenomenological interview study conducted with sixteen professional contemporary dancers, and focuses on the differences between the accounts of male and female dancers with regard to notions of openness in... Read More about Dancing like a girl: physical competence and emotional vulnerability in professional contemporary dance.

Queering orientations: towards a queer phenomenology of queer tango (2017)
Conference Proceeding

‘Getting it into the body’: understanding skill acquisition through Merleau-Ponty and the embodied practice of dance (2017)
Journal Article

This paper responds to calls across the sociological, philosophical and psychological dimensions of Sports Studies to attend to the promise of phenomenology as an approach to understanding the complexities and nuances of embodied athletic experience.... Read More about ‘Getting it into the body’: understanding skill acquisition through Merleau-Ponty and the embodied practice of dance.

Intercorporeality: connectedness and creative collaboration in the embodied practice of dance (2016)
Conference Proceeding

Dance plays a role in healing rituals across a number of cultures and is also recognised to promote social bonding. This, of course, includes contemporary Western medicine, in which dance is used in psychotherapeutic contexts in the form of dance/mov... Read More about Intercorporeality: connectedness and creative collaboration in the embodied practice of dance.