Published in 2011
244 pages
Beatrice Allegranti is Reader in Dance Movement Psychotherapy and Director of the Centre for Arts Therapies Research at the University of Roehampton, UK. Her national and international experience encompasses choreography and filmmaking as well as clinical practice and supervision. Beatrice’s feminist research investigates the boundaries and politics of moving bodies in performance, psychotherapeutic and scientific contexts. Recent films and practice based research include: Becoming Bodies (2013), a dance–science collaboration; Your Story Calls Me (2013) – 10 autobiographical stories of loss; and What Moves Us a neuro-psycho-social investigation into kinesthetic intersubjectivity in the Capoeira exchange.
What is this book about?
Embodied Performances is a rich contribution to our understanding of the practices and politics of gender, sex and sexuality. Allegranti takes forward the very latest developments in feminist thinking to reconsider the ways in which we live as, and in, our bodies. The fluid integration of creative practice and rigorous scholarship provides an eloquent case for how knowledge can be developed through the connecting and crossing of disciplinary boundaries.
With a companion website that includes short online film episodes, this book proposes expansive ways of deconstructing and re-constituting sexuality and gender and thus more embodied and ethical ways of ‘doing’ life, and offers an understanding and critique of embodiment through an integration of performance, psychotherapy and feminist philosophy.
