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The Natural Body in Somatics Dance Training

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One of the first books to examine Somatics in detail and to analyse how and what it teaches in the dance studio, The Natural Body in Somatics Dance Training considers how dancers discover and assimilate new ways of moving and also larger cultural values associated with those movements.

Artist / Author Doran George
Editor Susan Leigh Foster
Publisher Oxford University Press
ISBN 978-0197538746
Reference P4172
Date 2020
Type Publication

Keywords

choreography dance Doran George Somatics Susan Leigh Foster

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