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 Bläsing
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 Stück 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 Acarón
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 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 Families
Allison 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 Practice
Athiná 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 Transformation
Mati Vargas-Gibson, Sarena Wolfaard, and Emma Roberts
Section E. Dance in Health Care Contexts
Vicky Karkou and Sue Oliver
With 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 Hospital
Diane Amans
42. The BodyMind Approach(tm): Supporting the wellbeing of patients
with chronic medically unexplained symptoms in primary health care
in England
Helen 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 Infants
Elizabeth Loughlin
45. Dance Therapy and the Possibility of Wellbeing with People with
Dementia
Heather Hill
46. Emotions in Motion: Depression in Dance-Movement and
Dance-Movement in Treatment of Depression
Marko 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 Wellbeing
Sabine 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 Disease
Mariam Mchitarian, Joseph Moutiris, and Vicky Karkou
Conclusion
Vicky Karkou and Sue Oliver
Professor Vicky Karkou holds the Chair of Dance, Arts and Wellbeing
at Edge Hill University. 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.
"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." --Hiie Saumaa, Dance
Research Journal
"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-beingâincorporating 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." -- CHOICE
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