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Movement as Method: Some Existential and Epistemological Reflections on Dance in the Health Humanities (2021)
Journal Article
Purser, A. (2021). Movement as Method: Some Existential and Epistemological Reflections on Dance in the Health Humanities. Journal of Medical Humanities, 42, 165–178. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-021-09679-1

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 for beginners: self-benefit for, and community action by, new Capoeiristas (2018)
Journal Article
Jordan, M., Wright, E. J., Purser, A., Grundy, A., Joyes, E., Wright, N., …Manning, N. (2018). Capoeira for beginners: self-benefit for, and community action by, new Capoeiristas. Sport, Education and Society, 24(7), 756-769. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2018.1441145

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
Purser, A. C. E. (2019). Dancing intercorporeality: a health humanities perspective on dance as a healing art. Journal of Medical Humanities, 40(2), 253–263. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-017-9502-0

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
Purser, A. C. E. (in press). 'Being in your body' and 'Being in the moment': the dancing body-subject and inhabited transcendence. Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, 45(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/00948705.2017.1408018

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
Purser, A. C. E. (2017). Dancing like a girl: physical competence and emotional vulnerability in professional contemporary dance. Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal, 25(2), 105-110. https://doi.org/10.1123/wspaj.2016-0027

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.

‘Getting it into the body’: understanding skill acquisition through Merleau-Ponty and the embodied practice of dance (2017)
Journal Article
Purser, A. C. E. (2018). ‘Getting it into the body’: understanding skill acquisition through Merleau-Ponty and the embodied practice of dance. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 10(3), 318-332. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2017.1377756

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.