The Speaking Dancer

Finding Humanity through the Embodied Voice
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-70040-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 194 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

The Speaking Dancer offers a rich and thought-provoking exploration of radical interdisciplinary dance and performance within a broad political and philosophical context that investigates its wider impact on humanity.

In dialogue with other international practitioners, author Jacky Lansley draws on her work in dance, visual/performance art, film, theatre, and academia to examine how ideas and meaning "speak" through the body as well as the voice. Entrenched in feminist discussions of the gendered body and offering a space where dance practitioners can move beyond gender stereotypes, the book draws on a wide range of holistic, artistic, philosophical, and sociopolitical discourses and practices to examine the importance of the thinking body and the integration of the conscious and unconscious in art and life.

This book is ideal for students and practitioners of dance, choreography, theatre, performance, and live art, as well as researchers exploring the significance of the embodied voice in promoting the well-being of human societies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lansley, Jacky

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Tanz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. The Interdisciplinary Aesthetics of Radical Dance Theatre Landscapes and Memories - Finding a Voice through Movement The Actor Dancer - Vocabularies and Processes Plays and Playing Visual Landscapes - Abstraction, Image and the Everyday  The Object-hood of Dance and Gesture

2. Emotional Embodiment as Life and Art Knowing Children Being Present in all Senses Other Animals The Good The Bad and The Ugly Swan Dance as Healing and Empowerment Anything can be a Dance

3. The Speaking Dancer as Feminist Metaphor and Practice Do you know where your perineum is? What are you looking at?

4. Different Voices - Dance as Political Activism Migration and Dance Reclaiming the creative context of Black Dance in the UK The political voice of Black Dance Defying Ageism with Dance Protecting the Planet through Art and Collaboration Why artists are important

Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Jacky Lansley is a choreographer, writer, and visual/performance artist with over five decades of experience. She was a founding member of two of the UK’s leading independent dance studios, X6 Dance Space and Chisenhale Dance Space. In 2002, she founded the Dance Research Studio (DRS) in London, where she launched The Speaking Dancer Interdisciplinary Performance Training (SDIPT). Her published works include The Wise Body: Conversations with Experienced Dancers, co-authored with Fergus Early (2011), and Choreographies: Tracing the Materials of an Ephemeral Art Form (2017). In 2018, she was the recipient of the One Dance UK’s prestigious Jane Attenborough Award for outstanding services to dance.