The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing

Hiie Saumaa, Dance Research Journal 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.

CHOICE 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-beingincorporating 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.

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.

The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing Table of Contents Introduction to the book 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 Blasing 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 Stuck 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 Acaron 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 Gr