Editor's Note
Introduction: In Search of the Natural Body
Chapter 1. Renewable Originality: The Natural Body & Late Twentieth
Century Social Change
Chapter 2. Contradictory Dissidence: Somatics and American
Expansionism
Chapter 3: Somatics Bodies on the Concert Stage: Processing,
Inventing, and Displaying
Conclusion: Understanding the Focus on Natural Authenticity
Endnotes
Appendix: Brief Biographies of Some Key Somatics Practitioners
Bibliography
Doran George was on the Faculty of World Arts and Cultures at
UCLA.
Susan Leigh Foster is Distinguished Professor of World Arts and
Cultures at UCLA.
The Natural Body is a long overdue and much needed investigation
into the emergence and historical development of the broad category
of practices known as "Somatics". George's insights into Somatics
as a simultaneous disciplining and liberatory physical practice,
choreographic tool, and pedagogical intervention will be
illuminating and important for artists and scholars alike.
*Clare Croft, Associate Professor of Dance & American Studies,
University of Michigan*
Doran George brings a wealth of theoretical, kinaesthetic, and
political thought to the impact of Somatics in contemporary dance.
They do crucial work in undoing assumptions of Somatic training
regimens and their influence on choreographic process. Through
well-researched interviews and analysis, George does the long
overdue work of de-naturalizing notions of individual autonomy and
democracy in dance training and relationships between
choreographer/dancer and performer/spectator. In highlighting how
race, gender, and sexuality have been eclipsed by the force of
Somatics within a contemporary transnational context, this book
opens expansive, radical spaces for political and historical bodies
to move in new ways. A groundbreaking book that will have a
profound impact on the field.
*Jennifer Monson, Professor of Dance, University of Illinois,
Urbana Champaign*
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