Dance, Movement & Spiritualities
Dance, Movement & Spiritualities (Journal)
Dance, Movement & Spiritualities explores the relationship between spirituality, dance and movement. This peer-reviewed journal disseminates the idea 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.
Editor
Amanda Williamson
The Centre for Bio-Somatic Dance Movement Therapy and Coventry University, C-dare, UK
amanda@movingsoma.co.uk
Associate Editor
Bradford Keeney
Institute for Creative Therapy
bpkeeney@gmail.com
Hillary Keeney
Institute for Creative Therapy
hillarykeeney@gmail.com
Rebecca Weber
Coventry University, UK
beccaweber@gmail.com
Book Reviews Editor & Performance Contact
Dunja Njaradi
University Arts Belgrade, Serbia
dunjanjaradi@fmu.bg.ac.rs
Dance, Movement & Spiritualities explores the relationship between spirituality, dance and movement. This peer-reviewed journal disseminates the idea 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.
The below video introduces Moving Soma Centre for Embodiment and Bio-Somatic Dance Movement Therapy ran by DMAS editor, Amanda Williamson.
Editor
Amanda Williamson
The Centre for Bio-Somatic Dance Movement Therapy and Coventry University, C-dare, UK
amanda@movingsoma.co.uk
Associate Editor
Bradford Keeney
Institute for Creative Therapy
bpkeeney@gmail.com
Hillary Keeney
Institute for Creative Therapy
hillarykeeney@gmail.com
Rebecca Weber
Coventry University, UK
beccaweber@gmail.com
Book Reviews Editor & Performance Contact
Dunja Njaradi
University Arts Belgrade, Serbia
dunjanjaradi@fmu.bg.ac.rs
Editor
Amanda Williamson
The Centre for Bio-Somatic Dance Movement Therapy and Coventry University, C-dare, UK
amanda@movingsoma.co.uk
Associate Editor
Bradford Keeney
Institute for Creative Therapy
bpkeeney@gmail.com
Hillary Keeney
Institute for Creative Therapy
hillarykeeney@gmail.com
Rebecca Weber
Coventry University, UK
beccaweber@gmail.com
Book Reviews Editor & Performance Contact
Dunja Njaradi
University Arts Belgrade, Serbia
dunjanjaradi@fmu.bg.ac.rs
Editor
Amanda Williamson
The Centre for Bio-Somatic Dance Movement Therapy and Coventry University, C-dare, UK
amanda@movingsoma.co.uk
Associate Editor
Bradford Keeney
Institute for Creative Therapy
bpkeeney@gmail.com
Hillary Keeney
Institute for Creative Therapy
hillarykeeney@gmail.com
Rebecca Weber
Coventry University, UK
beccaweber@gmail.com
Book Reviews Editor & Performance Contact
Dunja Njaradi
University Arts Belgrade, Serbia
dunjanjaradi@fmu.bg.ac.rs
Contact the Editor Amanda Williamson: amanda@movingsoma.co.uk
The journal of Dance, Movement & Spiritualities is creating a very special issue this summer, sharing the embodied art of languaging and toning Somatic Movement Dance Meditations. Leading somatic movement dance meditation often lies at the heart of many somatic movement modalities. This special issue offers a beautiful poetic spiritual space for academics and practitioners to share how they create language and tone movement processes. We welcome images, poetry, and spacious meditations, as well as sections where practitioners share their frameworks and influences. We are particularly interested in the spiritual framework underpinning and shaping the meditation and look forward to receiving articles that share how eastern philosophies often interweave with experiential anatomy. We are very interested in documenting the embodied art of such processes, attending to subtle details, such as tone and language.
Deadline for submissions: 20 November 2021
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
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.
Editor
Amanda Williamson
The Centre for Bio-Somatic Dance Movement Therapy and Coventry University, C-dare, UK
amanda@movingsoma.co.uk
Associate Editor
Bradford Keeney
Institute for Creative Therapy
bpkeeney@gmail.com
Hillary Keeney
Institute for Creative Therapy
hillarykeeney@gmail.com
Rebecca Weber
Coventry University, UK
beccaweber@gmail.com
Book Reviews Editor & Performance Contact
Dunja Njaradi
University Arts Belgrade, Serbia
dunjanjaradi@fmu.bg.ac.rs
Editorial & Advisory Board
Rina Arya
University of Wolverhampton, UK
Glenna Batson
Winston-Salem State University, USA
Jane M. Bacon
University of Chichester
Harrison Blum
Moving Dharma, USA
Theresa Buckland
De Montfort University, UK
Melanie Brierley
Edgehill University, UK
Jill Bunce
Derby University, UK
Kathie Debenham
Utah Valley University, USA
Pat Debenham
Brigham Young University, USA
Martha Eddy
State University of New York - Empire State College, USA
Sondra Fraleigh
University of New York College at Brockport, USA
Thomas F. DeFrantz
Duke University, USA
Caroline Frizell
Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Sam Gill
Colorado University, USA
Veta Goler
Spelman College, USA
Judith Lynne Hanna
University of Maryland, USA
Linda Hartley
Institute for Integrative Bodywork & Movement Therapy, UK
Pat Hickman
Artistic Director made, Cornwall, UK
Rachel Kraus
Ball State University, USA
Kimerer L. LaMothe
Independent Scholar, USA
Alessandra Lopez y Royo
University of Roehampton, UK
Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe
University of Lincoln, UK
Indrani Margolin
University of Northern British Columbia, Canada
Christopher A. Miller
Arizona State University, USA
Jacqueline Shea Murphy
University of California, USA
Ann Nugent
University of Chichester, UK
Seonagh Odhiambo
California State University, USA
Sara Reed
Coventry University, UK
Janet Lynn Roseman
Nova Southeastern’s Osteopathic School of Medicine, USA
David Smith
Retired reader from Lancaster University, UK
Celeste Snowber
Simon Fraser University, Canada
Jayne Stevens
De Montfort University, UK
John C. Thibdeau
University of California, USA
Sarah Whatley
Coventry University, UK
Editor
Amanda Williamson
The Centre for Bio-Somatic Dance Movement Therapy and Coventry University, C-dare, UK
amanda@movingsoma.co.uk
Associate Editor
Bradford Keeney
Institute for Creative Therapy
bpkeeney@gmail.com
Hillary Keeney
Institute for Creative Therapy
hillarykeeney@gmail.com
Rebecca Weber
Coventry University, UK
beccaweber@gmail.com
Book Reviews Editor & Performance Contact
Dunja Njaradi
University Arts Belgrade, Serbia
dunjanjaradi@fmu.bg.ac.rs
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- Volume (5): Issue (1)
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- Volume (5): Issue (2)
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- Volume (4): Issue (1)
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- Volume (4): Issue (2)
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- Volume (3): Issue (1)
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- Volume (3): Issue (3)
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- Volume (2): Issue (1)
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- Volume (2): Issue (2)
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- Volume (2): Issue (3)
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- Volume (1): Issue (1)
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- Volume (1): Issue (2)
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- Volume (1): Issue (3)
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Editor
Amanda Williamson
The Centre for Bio-Somatic Dance Movement Therapy and Coventry University, C-dare, UK
amanda@movingsoma.co.uk
Associate Editor
Bradford Keeney
Institute for Creative Therapy
bpkeeney@gmail.com
Hillary Keeney
Institute for Creative Therapy
hillarykeeney@gmail.com
Rebecca Weber
Coventry University, UK
beccaweber@gmail.com
Book Reviews Editor & Performance Contact
Dunja Njaradi
University Arts Belgrade, Serbia
dunjanjaradi@fmu.bg.ac.rs
