Dance, Movement & Spiritualities (Journal)

ISSN 20517068 , ONLINE ISSN 20517076

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.

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Editor

Juliet Chambers-Coe
University of Essex, UK
jlcham@essex.ac.uk

Founding Editor

Amanda Williamson
The Centre for Bio-Somatic Dance Movement Therapy and Coventry University, C-dare, UK
dr.amandawilliamson@hotmail.com

Associate Editors

Bradford Keeney
The Budapest Institute for Creative Therapy, USA
bpkeeney@gmail.com

Hillary Keeney
The Budapest Institute for Creative Therapy, USA
hillarykeeney@gmail.com

Rebecca Weber
University of Auckland, New Zealand
b.weber@auckland.ac.nz

Book Reviews Editor & Performance Contact

Dunja Njaradi
University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia
dunjanjaradi@fmu.bg.ac.rs

Notes for Contributors Download


Aims and 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. The journal offers a diverse platform for scholars working within and across the fields of dance studies, theology/religious studies, anthropology, ethnography, sociology, health studies, dance movement psychotherapy, and dance histories. Dedicated to cross-dialogue and the potential inventive perspectives interdisciplinary collaboration generates, the journal aims to progress the academic study of spirituality in dance studies. 

Peer Review Policy

All articles undergo initial editorial screening either by the journal's Editorial Team and/or incumbent Guest Editors. Articles then undergo a rigorous anonymous peer review by two referees, following the guidance in Intellect's 'Peer review instructions'. Based on this feedback, the Editors will communicate a decision and revision suggestions to authors. To appeal an editorial decision, please contact the main Editor who will consider your case.

Ethical Guidelines

The journal follows the principles set out by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Read our Ethical Guidelines for more on the journal's standards.

Submissions

To submit an article, please follow the 'Submit' button on the left of this page.
 
Download the Notes for Contributors above for information on format and style of submissions. If you need this document in a more accessible format, please contact info@intellectbooks.com. Find more information on Intellect's Accessibility page.
 
All articles submitted should be original work and must not be under consideration by other publications.
 
Journal contributors will receive a free PDF copy of their final work upon publication. Print copies of the journal may also be purchased by contributors at half price.

Editor

Juliet Chambers-Coe
University of Essex, UK
jlcham@essex.ac.uk

Founding Editor

Amanda Williamson
The Centre for Bio-Somatic Dance Movement Therapy and Coventry University, C-dare, UK
dr.amandawilliamson@hotmail.com

Associate Editors

Bradford Keeney
The Budapest Institute for Creative Therapy, USA
bpkeeney@gmail.com

Hillary Keeney
The Budapest Institute for Creative Therapy, USA
hillarykeeney@gmail.com

Rebecca Weber
University of Auckland, New Zealand
b.weber@auckland.ac.nz

Book Reviews Editor & Performance Contact

Dunja Njaradi
University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia
dunjanjaradi@fmu.bg.ac.rs

Editor

Juliet Chambers-Coe
University of Essex, UK
jlcham@essex.ac.uk

Founding Editor

Amanda Williamson
The Centre for Bio-Somatic Dance Movement Therapy and Coventry University, C-dare, UK
dr.amandawilliamson@hotmail.com

Associate Editors

Bradford Keeney
The Budapest Institute for Creative Therapy, USA
bpkeeney@gmail.com

Hillary Keeney
The Budapest Institute for Creative Therapy, USA
hillarykeeney@gmail.com

Rebecca Weber
University of Auckland, New Zealand
b.weber@auckland.ac.nz

Book Reviews Editor & Performance Contact

Dunja Njaradi
University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia
dunjanjaradi@fmu.bg.ac.rs

Editor

Juliet Chambers-Coe
University of Essex, UK
jlcham@essex.ac.uk

Founding Editor

Amanda Williamson
The Centre for Bio-Somatic Dance Movement Therapy and Coventry University, C-dare, UK
dr.amandawilliamson@hotmail.com

Associate Editors

Bradford Keeney
The Budapest Institute for Creative Therapy, USA
bpkeeney@gmail.com

Hillary Keeney
The Budapest Institute for Creative Therapy, USA
hillarykeeney@gmail.com

Rebecca Weber
University of Auckland, New Zealand
b.weber@auckland.ac.nz

Book Reviews Editor & Performance Contact

Dunja Njaradi
University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia
dunjanjaradi@fmu.bg.ac.rs

Call for Papers 10.1 Download


General Call for Papers

Research into spirituality receives comparatively little attention in western dance practices but Dance, Movement & Spiritualities provides a platform for those practitioners and researchers who are actively and creatively working with spirituality at the centre of their practice/research. Contributions are invited from across disciplines. Articles may range from performance praxis and analysis, composition and aesthetics, Dance Movement Psychotherapy, community practice and holistic pedagogies. Example topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: 

  • The intersections between religion, spirituality and dance
  • The meeting points between health, movement and spirituality
  • The cultural production and historization of spirituality in relation to the growth of dance and movement practices
  • Spirituality, gender and dance/movement
  • The impact of secularization on Dance Education
  • Connections between philosophy, spirituality and dance/movement
  • The emergence and appreciation of new forms of spiritual dance in Western contexts otherwise undocumented (both popular and academic)
  • The documentation of spiritual forms associated with institutionalized religion
  • Dance/movement forms aligned with non-institutionalized spirituality (evolving forms linked to New Age Spirituality and the holistic spirituality paradigm)
  • Secular spiritualities underpinning practice, performance and pedagogy
  • Postmodern spiritualities underpinning practice, performance and pedagogy
  • Movement/dance forms conversant with Feminist Spirituality
  • Embodied and somatic spiritualities
  • Jungian/post-Jungian dance/movement forms
  • The influence of non-Western/Eastern sacred narratives as they continue to inform Western dance practice
  • Intercultural, cross-cultural and multicultural perspectives
  • Creative transformation and life-force celebration
  • Shamanic dance traditions

We particularly welcome articles from colleagues working in transnational and transcultural practices and are keen to hear the voices of those typically underrepresented in our communities such as those from the global majority. We are also keen to hear from disabled and neurodivergent practitioners and scholars in the field to include them not as a separate issue but to reveal the real landscape of practice we know exists. We also welcome practitioners and scholars who are working at the intersections of Higher Education and professional practice and who engage in research-led practice.

Proposals are encouraged to look across disciplines, for instance between educational and professional practices and post-colonial studies, Queer studies, dis/Ability studies, to critically consider the ways in which dance, movement and spiritualties have been framed by more mainstream traditions to the exclusion of spirituality and its personal and cultural meaning/s in movement, dance, performance, and therapeutic practices. We encourage use of diverse methods of articulation beyond academic prose, including visual imagery, poetry and dialogues between practitioners e.g. mover and witness/analyst, educator/student, therapist/client.

Articles should be prepared using Intellect House Style – see Notes for Contributors which is available to download from https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/62799/1/NFC_DMAS.pdf.

All articles submitted should be original work and must not be under consideration by other publications.

All contributors will receive a free PDF copy of their final work upon publication. Print copies of the journal may also be purchased by contributors at half price.

 

Special Issue Call for Papers

Volume 10.1

Special Issue ‘Rudolf Laban – seen and unseen: Integrative, regenerative and gnostic aspects of 20th / 21st century dance, movement and somatic practices.’

Edited by Carol-Lynne Moore and Juliet Chambers-Coe Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 03 Feburary 2023 Deadline for submissions: 31 March 2023

The reputation of Rudolf Laban (1879–1958) rests almost entirely on two tools he developed for the empirical study of human movement: Labanotation and Laban Movement Analysis. The former primarily 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 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 integrative, regenerative and even gnostic aspects of human movement experience.

Whilst Laban’s framework for movement analysis allows us to analyse, dissect and understand movement phenomenon in great detail, what has been absent from the canon is the acknowledgment of the ‘ineffable’, more subtle energetic aspects of the body that are often awakened through various movement practices. Laban not only recognized movement as a psychophysical phenomenon, he also understood movement as holistic and transcendental, a melding of soma and spirit. It is this understanding that led him to posit notions of ‘movement harmony,’ the means through which different elements of movement cohere in meaningful and ethical human acts.

It has been well documented that Laban was a member of a masonic order and interested in the practices of Rosicrucianism. His interest in sacred geometry is frequently cited as ‘proof’ of his spiritual thinking, where the trace forms of body movement in space are ‘the snail-shells of the soul’ (Laban 1966: 115). But little work has been done to explore how Laban’s spiritual thinking impacted the development of his theories and how practice which includes the spiritual dimension of movement might work towards his greater goal of ‘movement harmony,’ not only for the individual but for the communities in which we live.

This special issue invites discussion of the ‘seen and unseen’ aspects of Laban’s oeuvre. We are interested in papers giving greater definition
to Laban’s movement philosophy; to essays exploring the ‘ineffable’ integrative, regenerative and gnostic aspects of movement experience at the individual or community level; and to articles addressing how these aspects may be integrated and applied in contemporary movement practice, education, and research.

Potential topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • What are the spiritual dimensions of Laban’s movement philosophy? How do these manifest in the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System?

  • What can the spiritual element of Laban’s work offer the contemporary practitioner of the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System?

  • In what ways is movement spirituality a contemporary social phenomenon?

  • How do practices which favour ‘inside’ (felt sense, somatic awareness, self-regulation) and ‘outside’ (analytic, observational approaches) perspective intertwine, inform and invite creativity, expression and self-regulation in movement and dance practices?

  • In what ways is sacred geometry embedded in Laban’s space harmony (Choreutics)?

  • When and how does the movement and dance teacher move from observation and analysis to intuitive, somatic and spiritual knowing about a mover’s process?

  • What is ‘humane effort’ and how can it be harnessed for personal development?

  • How can movement observation and/or witnessing serve as a spiritual practice?

  • In what ways are objective and somatic perspectives being integrated in movement analysis practice?

 Contributions are invited from across disciplines including, but not limited to, the following:

performance praxis and analysis, Performance Philosophy, composition and aesthetics, movement analysis and research, Dance/Movement Psychotherapy, dance and movement pedagogy, dance, movement and somatic practices, community dance, sacred and ritual dance practice and analysis, personal development and wellbeing practices.

We are open to a variety of theoretical perspectives and cross- disciplinary approaches.

We particularly welcome articles from colleagues working in transnational and transcultural practices. We are keen to hear the voices of those typically underrepresented in our communities and to hear from disabled and neurodivergent practitioners and scholars. We

also welcome practitioners and scholars who are working at the intersections of Higher Education and professional practice and those who engage in research-led practice.

We welcome diverse methods of articulation beyond academic prose, including visual imagery, poetry and dialogues between practitioners e.g. mover and witness/analyst, educator/student, therapist/client.

Articles should be prepared using Intellect House Style – see Notes for Contributors which is available to download from https://www. intellectbooks.com/asset/62799/1/NFC_DMAS.pdf.

All articles submitted should be original work and must not be under consideration by other publications.

 

Issue Schedule 10.1

  • 3rd February 2023 Abstract submissions (not exceeding 1,000 words) to be submitted via the DMAS webpage: https://www.intellectbooks. com/dance-movement-spiritualities

  • 10th February Response from editors and, if successful, invitation to submit contribution.

  • 31st March: Full article submission.

  • 31st March - 28th April: peer review period and selection.

  • 8th May – 2nd June: author revisions post peer review.

  • June/July: publication process as Issue 10.1.

Editor

Juliet Chambers-Coe
University of Essex, UK
jlcham@essex.ac.uk

Founding Editor

Amanda Williamson
The Centre for Bio-Somatic Dance Movement Therapy and Coventry University, C-dare, UK
dr.amandawilliamson@hotmail.com

Associate Editors

Bradford Keeney
The Budapest Institute for Creative Therapy, USA
bpkeeney@gmail.com

Hillary Keeney
The Budapest Institute for Creative Therapy, USA
hillarykeeney@gmail.com

Rebecca Weber
University of Auckland, New Zealand
b.weber@auckland.ac.nz

Book Reviews Editor & Performance Contact

Dunja Njaradi
University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia
dunjanjaradi@fmu.bg.ac.rs

Editorial & Advisory Board

Rina Arya
University of Huddersfield, UK

Jane M. Bacon
University of Chichester

Glenna Batson
Winston-Salem State University, USA

Harrison Blum
Moving Dharma, USA

Melanie Brierley
Edgehill University, UK

Theresa Buckland
De Montfort University, UK

Jill Bunce
University of Derby, UK

Kathie Debenham
Utah Valley University, USA

Pat Debenham
Brigham Young University, USA

Martha Eddy
Dynamic Embodiment, USA

Sondra Fraleigh
State University of New York, Brockport, USA

Thomas F. DeFrantz
Northwestern University, USA

Caroline Frizell
Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

Sam Gill
Colorado University, USA

Veta Goler
Spelman College, USA

Rachel Kraus
Ball State University, USA

Kimerer L. LaMothe
Independent Scholar, USA

Indrani Margolin
University of Northern British Columbia, Canada

Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe
University of Lincoln, UK

Christopher A. Miller
Arizona State University, USA

Jacqueline Shea Murphy
University of California, Riverside, USA

Ann Nugent
University of Chichester, UK

Seonagh Odhiambo
California State University, USA

Sara Reed
Independent Scholar, UK

Janet Lynn Roseman
Nova Southeastern University, Florida, USA

David Smith
Retired reader from Lancaster University, UK

Celeste Snowber
Simon Fraser University, Canada

Jayne Stevens
De Montfort University, UK

Sarah Whatley
Coventry University, UK

Barbara Seller-Young
Retired Senior Scholar and Professor Emertia from York University, Toronto, Canada

Editor

Juliet Chambers-Coe
University of Essex, UK
jlcham@essex.ac.uk

Founding Editor

Amanda Williamson
The Centre for Bio-Somatic Dance Movement Therapy and Coventry University, C-dare, UK
dr.amandawilliamson@hotmail.com

Associate Editors

Bradford Keeney
The Budapest Institute for Creative Therapy, USA
bpkeeney@gmail.com

Hillary Keeney
The Budapest Institute for Creative Therapy, USA
hillarykeeney@gmail.com

Rebecca Weber
University of Auckland, New Zealand
b.weber@auckland.ac.nz

Book Reviews Editor & Performance Contact

Dunja Njaradi
University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia
dunjanjaradi@fmu.bg.ac.rs

 
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Editor

Juliet Chambers-Coe
University of Essex, UK
jlcham@essex.ac.uk

Founding Editor

Amanda Williamson
The Centre for Bio-Somatic Dance Movement Therapy and Coventry University, C-dare, UK
dr.amandawilliamson@hotmail.com

Associate Editors

Bradford Keeney
The Budapest Institute for Creative Therapy, USA
bpkeeney@gmail.com

Hillary Keeney
The Budapest Institute for Creative Therapy, USA
hillarykeeney@gmail.com

Rebecca Weber
University of Auckland, New Zealand
b.weber@auckland.ac.nz

Book Reviews Editor & Performance Contact

Dunja Njaradi
University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia
dunjanjaradi@fmu.bg.ac.rs

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