Body and Mind in Motion

Margaret Wilson is a professor at the University of Wyoming, where she teaches modern dance, Pilates, kinesiology, twentieth-century dance history, pedagogy and vertical dance, and co-directs the B.F.A. in dance science. Her research interests are in scientific aspects of dance, integrating somatic practices into pedagogy, and pursuing and facilitating interdisciplinary work. In addition, she choreographs and performs for productions at the University of Wyoming, including vertical dance performances in an outside venue, and she co-directs the Snowy Range Summer Dance Festival. She serves on the board of directors for the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science (IADMS) and publishes in the Journal of Dance Medicine & Science.

'It is a very exciting book in which any possible correlations between body, mind and movement are analyzed in a simple and never boring way.'

• Introduction Chapter 1: From Conversation to Discourse Chapter 2: Locating the DiscourseChapter 3: Researching Dance Cognition – Task-Based AnalysisChapter 4: Reframing Embodiment Chapter 5: Enaction Chapter 6: Attention and Effort Chapter 7: Training Attention – The Somatic Learning Environment Chapter 8: Somatic Approaches to Training Attention: Part I Chapter 9: Somatic Approaches to Training Attention: Part II Chapter 10: Vertical Dance: Re-Experiencing the World Chapter 11: The Road Forward Appendix I: Primer on Balance Appendix II: Explorations and Reflections