The Place of Dance: A Somatic Guide to Dancing and Dance Making

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THE PLACE OF DANCE Publication of the book is funded by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving Dancer: Susanna Recchia An Instant of Form Greenwich Park, Canary Wharf, and Southbank Photograph © Christian Kipp a somatic guide to dancing and dance making THE PLACE OF DANCE Andrea Olsen, with Caryn McHose Wesleyan University Press Middletown, Connecticut Wesleyan University Press Middletown CT 06459 www.wesleyan.edu/wespress© 2014 Andrea Olsen All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Designed by Katherine B. Kimball Typeset in Minion and Quadraat Sans by Passumpsic Publishing Wesleyan University Press is a member of the Green Press Initiative. The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper. Publication of the book is funded by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Olsen, Andrea. The place of dance: a somatic guide to dancing and dance making / Andrea Olsen, with Caryn McHose. p. cm. isbn 978-0-8195-7405-3 (pbk.: alk. paper)— isbn 978-0-8195-7406-0 (ebook) 1. Dance—History. 2. Dance—Psychological aspects. 3. Somesthesia. 4. Senses and sensation. I. Title. gv1601.o57 2013 792.8—dc23 2013024221 5 4 3 2 1 For the next generation of dancers, especially Lucas and Tula Isabel, Caitie and Arleigh, and all the young ones who deserve dancing as part of their lives. Drawing by Helen Ingle, age eight ...