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The Introduction provides an overview of the theoretical approach taken in the book, namely to consider movement in general and training regimens for dancers in particular as forms of cultural production that disseminate both an aesthetics and a politics. It discusses methodologies, including ethnographic and choreographic analysis, oral history, and critical contemplation of the author’s own extensive experience with Somatics regimens. The author argues, in part based on their personal experience, that through the invocation of metaphors such as the “natural body,” Somatics had the effect of both excluding and repressing some aspects of identity while liberating others. |
