Movement as Method: Some Existential and Epistemological Reflections on Dance in the Health Humanities

Movement as Method: Some Existential and Epistemological Reflections on Dance in the Health Humanities

The embodied creative practice of dance facilitates a particular kind of awareness or attunement which can inform both the therapeutic and the intellectual work of the Health Humanities. This paper therefore considers dance as a way of ‘doing’ Health Humanities in two interlinked ways: dance as a wa...

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Published in:The Journal of medical humanities 2021-03, Vol.42 (1), p.165-178
Main Author: Purser, Aimie
Format: Article
Language:eng
Subjects:
Cultural and Media Studies
Dancing
Humanities
Humans
Knowledge
Literature
Methods
Regional and Cultural Studies
Theory of Medicine/Bioethics
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Summary:The embodied creative practice of dance facilitates a particular kind of awareness or attunement which can inform both the therapeutic and the intellectual work of the Health Humanities. This paper therefore considers dance as a way of ‘doing’ Health Humanities in two interlinked ways: dance as a way of healing and dance as a way of knowing. In bringing together carnal and the creative dimensions of human experience, dance offers us a way of making sense of our place in the world that provides us both with much needed existential security (tethering) and much needed epistemological freedom (untethering).
ISSN:1041-3545
1573-3645