Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing considers various applications of dance in promoting wellbeing. The handbook's five sections encompass diverse perspectives on dance and related movement practices, including physical, socio-cultural and emotional aspects; performance; education; community; and dance in health care settings. Within these diverse contexts, theoreticians, scientists, researchers and practitioners from around the world engage and invite readers to engage in configuring dance, wellbeing, and creative cross-overs.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Vicky Karkou, Sue Oliver and Sophia Lycouris


• Section A: Dance and the Body


• Vicky Karkou and Sue Oliver


• 1. The Dancing Queen: Explanatory Mechanisms of the 'Feel-Good-Effect' in Dance


• Corinne Jola and Luis Calmeiro


• 2. Dance in the Body, the Mind, and the Brain: Neurocognitive Research inspired by Dancers and their Audience


• Bettina Bläsing


• 3. Subjective and Neurophysiological Perspectives on Emotion Perception from Dance


• Marie-Helene Grosbras, Matthew Reason, Haodan Tan, Rosie Kay, and Frank Pollick


• 4. Evidence-based BIODANZA Programmes for Children (TANZPRO-Biodanza) in Schools and Kindergartens: Some Effects on Psychology, Physiology, Hormones and the Immune System


• Marcus Stück and Alejandra Villegas


• 5. Dancing to Resist, Reduce and Escape Stress


• Judith Lynne Hanna


• 6. Body Memory and its Recuperation through Movement


• Heidrun Panhofer


• 7. Listening to the Moving Body: Movement approaches in Body Psychotherapy


• Laura-Hope Steckler


• 8. Authentic Movement as a Practice for Wellbeing


• Jane Bacon


• 9. Authentic Movement and the Relationship of Embodied Spirituality to Health and Wellbeing


• Zoe Avstreih


• 10. Reimagining Our Relationship to the Dancing Body


• Andrea Olsen


• Section B. Dance within Performative Contexts


• Sophia Lycouris and Vicky Karkou


• With contribution from Taira Restar on her work with Anna Halprin


• 11. A Greater Fullness of Life: Wellbeing in Early Modern Dance


• Michael Huxley and Ramsay Burt


• 12. Therapeutic Performance: When Private Moves to Public


• Thania Acarón


• 13. Portals of Conscious Transformation: from Authentic Movement to Performance


• Marcia Plevin


• 14. Butoh Dance, Noguchi Taiso and Healing


• Paola Esposito and Toshiharu Kasai


• 15. Flow in the Dancing Body: An Intersubjective Experience


• Louise Douse


• 16. Common Embrace: Wellbeing in Rosemary Lee's Choreography of Inclusive Dancing Communities


• Doran George


• 17. Wellbeing and the Aging Dancer


• Jan Bolwell


• 18. Being in Pieces: Integrating Dance, Identity and Mental Health


• Mark Edward and Fiona Bannon


• 19. Writing Body Stories


• June Gersten Roberts


• 20. (Im)possible Performatives: Embodying the Politics of Loss


• Beatrice Allegranti


• Section C. Dance in Education


• Sue Oliver and Vicky Karkou


• With contributions from Julie Joseph, Jo Bungay-Orr, and Foteini Athanasiadou


• 21. Provoking Change: Dance Pedagogy and Curriculum Design


• Ann Kipling Brown


• 22. Pedagogies of Dance Teaching and Dance Leading


• Jayne Stevens


• 23. Creative Dance in Schools: A Snapshot of Two European Contexts


• Sue Oliver, Monika Konold, and Christina Larek


• 24. Moving Systems: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Enhance Learning and Avoid Dropping-out


• Claire Schaub-Moore


• 25. Dance/Movement and Embodied Knowing with Adolescents


• Nancy Beardall


• 26. Movement Therapy Programme with Children with Mild Learning Difficulties in Primary Schools in Saudi Arabia: Links between Motion and Emotion


• Abdulazeem Alotaibi, Vassiliki Karkou, Marietta L van der Linden, and Lindesay Irvine


• 27. Dance Movement Therapy, Student Learning and Wellbeing in Special Education


• Sue Mullane and Kim Dunphy


• 28. The Wellbeing of Students in Dance Movement Therapy Masters Programs


• Hilda Wengrower


• 29. Cultivating the 'Felt Sense' of Wellbeing - How we Know we are Well


• Anna Fiona Keogh and Joan Davis


• Section D. Dance in the Community


• Sue Oliver and Vicky Karkou


• With contributions from Carolyn Fresquez and Barbara Erber


• 30. Free to Dance: Community Dance with Adolescent Girls in Scotland


• Anna Kenrick, Carolyn Lappin, and Sue Oliver


• 31. Methods of Promoting Gender Development in Young Children Through Developmental Dance Rhythms: A Kestenberg Movement Profile (KMP) Dance/Movement Therapy Approach


• Susan Loman


• 32. Together We Move: Creating a Laban-style Movement Choir


• Cynthia Pratt


• 33. Touching Disability Culture: Dancing Tiresias


• Petra Kuppers choreographing an essay with contributions from Lisa Steichmann, Jonny Gray, Melanie Yergeau, Aimee Meredith Cox, Nora Simonhjell, Neil Marcus, Elizabeth Currans, Amber DiPietra, and Stephanie Heit


• 34. 'Building Relations': A Methodological Consideration of Dance and Wellbeing in Psychosocial Work with War-affected Refugee Children and Their Families


• Allison Singer


• 35. Reconstructing the World of Survivors of Torture for Political Reasons through Dance/Movement Therapy


• Maralia Reca


• 36. Haunted by Meaning: Dance as Aesthetic Activism


• Sherry B. Shapiro


• 37. Cultural Adaptations of Dance Movement Psychotherapy Experiences: From a UK Higher education Context to a Transdisciplinary Water Resource Management Research Practice


• Athiná Copteros, Vicky Karkou, and Tally Palmer


• 38. Capoeira in the Community: The Social Arena for the Development of Wellbeing


• André Luiz Teixeira Reis and Sue Oliver


• 39. The 5Rhythms® Movement Practice: Journey to Wellbeing, Empowerment and Transformation


• Mati Vargas-Gibson, Sarena Wolfaard, and Emma Roberts


• Section E. Dance in Health Care Contexts


• Vicky Karkou and Sue Oliver


• With a contribution from Chan Nga Shan and Ania Zubala


• 40. Dance Movement Therapy in Health Care: Should we Dance across the Floor of the Ward?


• Iris Bräuninger and Gonzalo Bacigalupe


• 41. Dance as Art in Hospital


• Diane Amans


• 42. The BodyMind Approach(tm): Supporting the wellbeing of patients with chronic medically unexplained symptoms in primary health care in England


• Helen Payne


• 43. Dance Therapy-Primitive Expression Contributes to Wellbeing


• Alexia Margariti, Periklis Ktonas, Thomas Paparrigopoulos, and Grigoris Vaslamatzis


• 44. Dance: An Aesthetic Experience to Foster Wellbeing for Vulnerable Mothers and Infants


• Elizabeth Loughlin


• 45. Dance Therapy and the Possibility of Wellbeing with People with Dementia


• Heather Hill


• 46. Emotions in Motion: Depression in Dance-Movement and Dance-Movement in Treatment of Depression


• Marko Punkanen, Suvi Saarikallio, Outi Leinonen, Anita Forsblom, Kristo Kulju, and Geoff Luck


• 47. (Dis-)Embodiment in Schizophrenia: Effects of Mirroring on Self-Experience, Empathy and Wellbeing


• Sabine C. Koch, Janna Kelbel, Astrid Kolter, Heribert Sattel, and Thomas Fuchs


• 48. Dance/Movement Therapy and Breast Cancer Care: A Wellbeing Approach


• Ilene Serlin, Nancy Goldov, and Erika Hansen


• 49. Attending to the Heart beat in Dance Movement Psychotherapy: Improvements in Mood and Quality of Life for Patients with Coronary Heart Disease


• Mariam Mchitarian, Joseph Moutiris, and Vicky Karkou


• Conclusion


• Vicky Karkou and Sue Oliver

About the author

Vicky Karkou holds the Chair of Dance, Arts and Wellbeing at Edge Hill University. A qualified dance teacher, researcher and dance movement psychotherapist, she has lengthy experience of working with diverse clinical populations in different settings. She is widely published in peer-reviewed journals and books, and acts as the co-editor of the international journal Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy published by Taylor and Francis. She travels extensively around the world for research and teaching purposes.

Sue Oliver is a freelance dance tutor and researcher. Based in Scotland, she left her post as senior teacher and dance tutor for her local education authority to concentrate on her research in creative dance and wellbeing, focusing on children, adolescents, and latterly older adults, including seated movement to music in day care settings. Current projects include dance with sufferers of Parkinson's Disease and community-based choreographic projects.

Sophia Lycouris

is an academic interested in interdisciplinary research methodologies and research by creative practice. She is also an artist working with movement/dance, choreography, improvisation, performance and new technologies since the late 90s. Her work involves processes of "listening" to spaces and designing subtle movement interventions, which trigger affective transformations. Her academic projects on movement and new technologies have been funded by research councils and her artistic work has been presented in the UK, Europe, and USA.

Summary

In recent years, a growth in dance and wellbeing scholarship has resulted in new ways of thinking that place the body, movement, and dance in a central place with renewed significance for wellbeing. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing examines dance and related movement practices from the perspectives of neuroscience and health, community and education, and psychology and sociology to contribute towards an understanding of wellbeing, offer new insights into existing practices, and create a space where sufficient exchange is enabled. The handbook's research components include quantitative, qualitative, and arts-based research, covering diverse discourses, methodologies, and perspectives that add to the development of a complete picture of the topic. Throughout the handbook's wide-ranging chapters, the objective observations, felt experiences, and artistic explorations of practitioners interact with and are printed alongside academic chapters to establish an egalitarian and impactful exchange of ideas.

Additional text

Karkou (Edge Hill Univ., UK), together with a team of contributors from a range of backgrounds, presents a comprehensive survey of current dance and well-being scholarship. ... Readers are presented with an authoritative and richly interdisciplinary review of the current research and scholarly exploration of dance and well-beingâincorporating perspectives from psychology and neuroscience as well. ... It is especially welcome to find such depth of detail and scholarship in one place. ... Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students through faculty and professionals.

Product details

• Authors: Vicky (Chair of Dance Karkou, Vicky Oliver Karkou
• Assisted by: Vicky Karkou (Editor), Vicky (Chair of Dance Karkou (Editor), Karkou Vicky (Editor), Sophia Lycouris (Editor), Sophia (Reader in Interdisciplinary Choreography Lycouris (Editor), Sue Oliver (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2020
• EAN: 9780197526330
• ISBN: 978-0-19-752633-0
• No. of pages: 1010
• Series: Oxford Handbooks
• Subjects: Guides > Health > Relaxation, yoga, meditation, autogenic training; Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Dance, HEALTH & FITNESS / Yoga, MEDICAL / Allied Health Services / General, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Dance, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / History & Criticism, Family & health, Family and health, Contemporary Dance