Overview
- The first account of how to use choreography as a means of engaging in critical inquiry
- Develops a method for using choreography as a critical inquiry process
- Demonstrates how to utilize movement to explore embodied practices of knowing
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
In this book, Shay Welch expands on the contemporary cognitive thinking-in-movement framework, which has its roots in the work of Maxine Sheets-Johnstone but extends and develops within contemporary embodied cognition theory. Welch believes that dance can be used to ask questions, and this book offers a method of how critical inquiry can be embodied. First, she presents the theoretical underpinnings of what this process is and how it can work; second, she introduces the empirical method as a tool that can be used by movers for the purpose of doing embodied inquiry. Exploring the role of embodied cognition and embodied metaphors in mining the body for questions, Welch demonstrates how to utilize movement to explore embodied practices of knowing. She argues that our creative embodied movements facilitate our ability to bodily engage in critical analysis about the world.
Reviews
"Taking the embodied sciences of thinking a tremendous step forward, this book presents the intriguing and deeply intuitive possibility of inquiry-in-movement, detailing how, in dancing, people tap into procedural knowledges that belong to our bodies, importantly including the know-how of dialogue and of discovery. Shay Welch shares her original method of embodied critical inquiry in fascinating final demonstrations, but first, her writing enacts this practice in its own dynamic construction. Readers will be drawn swiftly into the text’s energetic, cogent momentum, as Welch nimbly pulls every philosophical approach to meaning, language, and body-minds that I have ever held dear into an intricate, lucid performance that enlivens and freshly illuminates the foundational work on which it builds. Against this vibrant backdrop Welch’s direct, accessible interpretations gleam with insight, and we catch our breath and behold the visionary promise that dancing and improvising hold for enactive and embodied cognitive science." (Elena Clare Cuffari, Professor of Psychology and Scientific and Philosophical Studies of Mind at Franklin and Marshall College, and co-author [with Ezequiel A. Di Paolo and Hanne De Jaegher] of Linguistic Bodies: The Continuity between Life andLanguage [2018])
"Building on her previous scholarship, Shay Welch amasses a wealth of resources to demonstrate why and how the action of dancing deserves attention within philosophical circles as a mode of embodied critical inquiry. Not only does Welch make a sophisticated intellectual argument, she offers readers the results of her own bold empirical experimentation as evidence and as inspiration." (Kimerer L LaMothe, author of Why We Dance: A Philosophy of Bodily Becoming)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Shay Welch is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Spelman College, the 2020—2021 Carnegie and Rockefeller Foundation Distinguished Research/Creative Scholar, and Chair of the Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Choreography as Embodied Critical Inquiry
Book Subtitle: Embodied Cognition and Creative Movement
Authors: Shay Welch
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93495-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-93494-1Published: 29 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-93497-2Published: 30 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-93495-8Published: 28 March 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 244
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Epistemology, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Mind, Dance, Phenomenology