| Floating Bones: A Dancer's Tensegretic Body as Teacher Contributor(s): Roses-Thema, Cynthia (Author) |
|
 |
ISBN: 0367469502 ISBN-13: 9780367469504 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $65.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Young Adult Fiction | Performing Arts - Dance |
| Dewey: 792.801 |
| LCCN: 2020027911 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.6" W x 8.6" (0.55 lbs) 104 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Floating Bones charts the author's journey into tensegrity, which begins in ballet and culminates in a model for addressing one's body as a teacher. Tensegrity flips traditional biomechanical models such that instead of support coming from the bones, the bones float, and it is the muscles and other soft connective tissue that provide support for the moving body. Using the model of tensegretic experience, Roses-Thema connects somatics, cognition, rhetoric, and reflective practices detailing the means that constructed approaching the body as a teacher. This study presents the argument for extending the models of thinking to include bodily thinking, by citing how the experiential perspective of tensegrity constructs physical evidence of the rhetorical concept, metis, where the body thinks as it moves. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars, and practitioners of dance, theater, and sociology. |