Somatic Movement Inquiry I

Catalog description

Explores somatic processes and frameworks as modalities for inquiry and research. Students engage in psychophysical investigations of specific somatic movement practices and frameworks, including Laban Movement Analysis, Body-Mind Centering and Dynamic Embodiment, as well as other phenomenological and epistemological frameworks for learning in and through the body. Approaches classroom experiences from theoretically grounded and contextualized perspectives that address through practice current somatic and epistemological thinking. Individual sessions with faculty support the deepening and exploration of personal movement inquiry and somatic research.