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Intellect is pleased to announce that Dance, Movement & Spiritualities 9.1-2 is out now!

Practices and ideas which foreground and name spirituality are manifold, but traditional academic discourse tends to reject them for fear of being viewed as ‘woo woo’ or lacking academic rigour. This journal wholeheartedly rejects that view and is testament to the academic diligence and deep embodied research taking place in the field. The journal is vital to the growing interest and burgeoning academic research in embodied spirituality and cross-cultural understanding of the body, soul, spirit, in movement, dance, ritual and religion. It is through such research we learn about cultures so different from our own, about bodies unlike and like us, about being alive in body, mind, spirit and soul and our connectedness to others.

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https://www.intellectbooks.com/dance-movement-spiritualities

Aims & Scope

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.

This journal is associated with California State University, Department of Music and Dance, LA; Dynamic Embodiment, DE-SMITT, New York; Movement Angol, Dance Company, London; and the Department of Dance and Music, Manipur University.

Issue 9.1-2

Editorial

JULIET CHAMBERS-COE

Articles

A case for somatic practices as embodied mindfulness

REBECCA WEBER

Rhythms of homecoming: A body–soul experience of dancing the traditional rhythms of my native land, as an exiled, non-traditional southern Italian woman

FILOMENA IANNI

Terrain: A conversation in dancefilm between self and the Australian outback landscape

SONIA YORK-PRYCE

Other-orientedness: A practical tool for performance spirituality

ELIEN HANSELAER

Embodied gnosis: Sensory-somatic routes in Rosicrucian thinking

JULIET CHAMBERS-COE

See yourself through these hands: The moving body as a portal to spirit possession. Working with ancient ritual technologies to create portraits of spirits, gods and mythic beings

RED K. ELDERS

Locating religion within Bhakti performance practice: A study of Sri Krishna Parijatha of North Karnataka

SNEHA ROY CHOUDHURY

Motherlines, thin places and somatic orientations: An embodied inquiry

LENA REBECCA RICHARDSON

Book Review

The Fluid Nature of Being: Embodied Practices for Healing and Wholeness, Linda Hartley (ed.) (2022)

ROZ CARROLL