Chapter 2.3 Fostering attentional awareness for connectedness, with agility and empathy as core values

Autor: Seago, Catherine
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
Předmět:
Ballroom
Theatre
Performance
Dance
Jazz

bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AN Theatre studies
bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AN Theatre studies::ANC Acting techniques
bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AS Dance & other performing arts::ASD Dance::ASDR Ballroom dancing
bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AS Dance & other performing arts::ASD Dance::ASDL Ballet
bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AS Dance & other performing arts::ASD Dance::ASDX Folk dancing
bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AS Dance & other performing arts
bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AS Dance & other performing arts::ASD Dance::ASDT Contemporary dance
bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AS Dance & other performing arts::ASD Dance::ASDC Choreography
Druh dokumentu: chapter
DOI: 10.4324/9781003111146-11
Popis: This chapter considers how dance technique practice can foster an agile and empathetic use of attention. It builds upon a recent action research project exploring how attention is commonly viewed and valued in dance training and how a bricolage-style approach to classes can encourage inter-connectedness with others, as well as amongst ideas and practices. Drawing on ideas of flow (Csikszentmihalyi, Claxton) this chapter argues that greater awareness of how we attend in practicing physical agility together can help dancers to develop an ethical agility through being present and sensitive to all that is happening in the dance class. The discussion reflects on the ways in which interconnectedness can be cultivated through an agile and empathetic use of attention and the implicit value of realising connections within and beyond dance skills development.
Databáze: OAPEN Library