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Dance, Movement & Spiritualities 10.1 is out now! Special Issue

Intellect is pleased to announce that Dance, Movement & Spiritualities 10.1 is out now!

Special Issue: ‘Rudolf Laban – Seen and Unseen’

This Special Issue of Dance, Movement and Spiritualities (DMAS) draws inspiration from the seminal work of the dancer and movement theorist, Rudolf Laban (1879–1958). His reputation rests almost entirely on the two tools he developed for the empirical study of human movement: Labanotation and Laban Movement Analysis. The former makes it possible for choreographies to be recorded in symbols, reconstructed and protected by copyright. The latter provides an elegant and parsimonious taxonomy of human movement that has proven applicable in a multiplicity of disciplines. The empirical utility of these two systems is widely recognized and can be said to represent the part of Laban’s oeuvre that is ‘seen’.

On the other hand, there is another part of Laban’s oeuvre that is far less widely known if not, in fact, ‘unseen’ – his work as a philosopher of movement. Laban’s study of movement extended beyond analysis, to a consideration of the integrative, regenerative and even gnostic aspects of human movement experience.

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Aims & Scope

Dance, Movement & Spiritualities explores the relationship between spirituality, dance and movement. This peer-reviewed journal disseminates the ideas and findings of practitioners and researchers who are actively and creatively working with spirituality. Articles may range from performance praxis and analysis, composition and aesthetics, dance movement psychotherapy, community practice and holistic pedagogies.

Issue 10.1

Note from the Editor

JULIET CHAMBERS-COE

Editorial

CAROL-LYNNE MOORE

Articles

Towards an embodied spirituality: Laban’s principles in the expanded field of environmental performance

CIANE FERNANDES, MELINA SCIALOM AND DIEGO PIZARRO

Exploring the inter-play between Rudolf Laban’s Effort framework and Prapto Suryodarmo’s Amerta Movement

KATYA BLOOM

Rudolf Laban and the seven planes of consciousness: Sensory-somatic portals to spirit

JULIET CHAMBERS-COE