The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing

Professor Vicky Karkou holds a Chair of Dance at Edge Hill University leading the research theme of arts and wellbeing. 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.Dr Sue Oliver works freelance in community dance. Her PhD thesis explored creative dance and social wellbeing for adolescents. She provides creative dance opportunities mainly for older persons but also preschool groups and choreographic work with teenagers in afterschool settings. She also conducts seated movement and music sessions for older adults in day care and residential care settings.Dr 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.

An immensely rich resource for scholars and general audiences who are curious about mind-body communication, different types of dance movement, somatics, embodied learning, kineaesthesia and empathy, and the therapeutic potential of movement.

• The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing Table of Contents Introduction to the bookVicky Karkou, Sue Oliver and Sophia Lycouris Section A: Dance and the BodyVicky Karkou and Sue Oliver 1. The Dancing Queen: Explanatory Mechanisms of the 'Feel-Good-Effect' in DanceCorinne Jola and Luis Calmeiro 2. Dance in the Body, the Mind, and the Brain: Neurocognitive Research inspired by Dancers and their AudienceBettina Bläsing 3. Subjective and Neurophysiological Perspectives on Emotion Perception from DanceMarie-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 SystemMarcus Stück and Alejandra Villegas 5. Dancing to Resist, Reduce and Escape StressJudith Lynne Hanna 6. Body Memory and its Recuperation through MovementHeidrun Panhofer 7. Listening to the Moving Body: Movement approaches in Body PsychotherapyLaura-Hope Steckler 8. Authentic Movement as a Practice for WellbeingJane Bacon 9. Authentic Movement and the Relationship of Embodied Spirituality to Health and WellbeingZoe Avstreih 10. Reimagining Our Relationship to the Dancing BodyAndrea Olsen Section B. Dance within Performative ContextsSophia Lycouris and Vicky KarkouWith contribution from Taira Restar on her work with Anna Halprin 11. A Greater Fullness of Life: Wellbeing in Early Modern DanceMichael Huxley and Ramsay Burt 12. Therapeutic Performance: When Private Moves to PublicThania Acarón 13. Portals of Conscious Transformation: from Authentic Movement to PerformanceMarcia Plevin 14. Butoh Dance, Noguchi Taiso and Healing Paola Esposito and Toshiharu Kasai 15. Flow in the Dancing Body: An Intersubjective ExperienceLouise Douse 16. Common Embrace: Wellbeing in Rosemary Lee's Choreography of Inclusive Dancing CommunitiesDoran George 17. Wellbeing and the Aging DancerJan Bolwell 18. Being in Pieces: Integrating Dance, Identity and Mental HealthMark 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 EducationSue Oliver and Vicky KarkouWith contributions from Julie Joseph, Jo Bungay-Orr, and Foteini Athanasiadou 21. Provoking Change: Dance Pedagogy and Curriculum DesignAnn Kipling Brown 22. Pedagogies of Dance Teaching and Dance Leading Jayne Stevens 23. Creative Dance in Schools: A Snapshot of Two European ContextsSue Oliver, Monika Konold, and Christina Larek 24. Moving Systems: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Enhance Learning and Avoid Dropping-outClaire Schaub-Moore 25. Dance/Movement and Embodied Knowing with AdolescentsNancy Beardall 26. Movement Therapy Programme with Children with Mild Learning Difficulties in Primary Schools in Saudi Arabia: Links between Motion and EmotionAbdulazeem Alotaibi, Vassiliki Karkou, Marietta L van der Linden, and Lindesay Irvine 27. Dance Movement Therapy, Student Learning and Wellbeing in Special EducationSue Mullane and Kim Dunphy 28. The Wellbeing of Students in Dance Movement Therapy Masters ProgramsHilda Wengrower 29. Cultivating the 'Felt Sense' of Wellbeing - How we Know we are WellAnna 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 ScotlandAnna 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 ApproachSusan Loman 32. Together We Move: Creating a Laban-style Movement ChoirCynthia Pratt 33. Touching Disability Culture: Dancing TiresiasPetra 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 FamiliesAllison 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 PracticeAthiná 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 TransformationMati Vargas-Gibson, Sarena Wolfaard, and Emma Roberts Section E. Dance in Health Care Contexts Vicky Karkou and Sue OliverWith 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 HospitalDiane Amans 42. The BodyMind Approach(tm): Supporting the wellbeing of patients with chronic medically unexplained symptoms in primary health care in EnglandHelen 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 InfantsElizabeth Loughlin 45. Dance Therapy and the Possibility of Wellbeing with People with DementiaHeather Hill 46. Emotions in Motion: Depression in Dance-Movement and Dance-Movement in Treatment of DepressionMarko 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 WellbeingSabine 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 DiseaseMariam Mchitarian, Joseph Moutiris, and Vicky Karkou ConclusionVicky Karkou and Sue Oliver