Nine Ways of Seeing a Body

Download or read book Nine Ways of Seeing a Body written by Sandra Reeve and published by Triarchy Press. This book was released on 2011-06-25 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents nine lenses through which the body is conventionally viewed. The body as object, the body as subject, the phenomenological body, the contextual body, the interdependent body, the environmental body, the cultural body and, finally, the ecological body. Designed to be a guide and stimulus for teachers, students and practitioners of dance, performance, movement, somatics and the arts therapies - and for anyone troubled by the idea of a brain on legs.