All Outputs (5)

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.