Editorial: Wright-ing the Somatic, Narrating the Bodily
Editorial for guest editorial with Helen Kindred. Guest editing this edition of the journal followed the three symposiums Helen and I held at Middlesex University, Wright-ing the Somatic – August 2016, Narrating the Somatic: gathering voices, sharing practices – February 2018, and Queering the Somatic: interrupting the narrative – August 2019
Excerpt form the editorial: ‘…We suggest the somatic knowing of dance challenges us to enter into communication across and through the skin of the material body to the wider human lived-experience of the partnerships of being. In this special issue, we have curated articles that explore how we tell the tale of our movement craft (the wright-ing of dance), our embodied experiences, and share our practices: how we narrate the bodily…’
Citation: Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices, Volume 11, Number 1, 1 July 2019, pp. 3-6(4)
Publisher: Intellect
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1386/jdsp.11.1.3_2