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American Body Pedagogies: Somatics and the Cultural Construction of Bodies in the Institution of Higher Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2013

Jill Green
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Abstract

This paper explores body pedagogy, particularly related to how we teach dance technique in the United States. It addresses the paradigmatic positions underlying dance education and how somatics plays a role in how educators teach dance. Although somatics is viewed as a positive addition to a pedagogical repertoire, the author questions viewing it as a universal panacea for all the world's ills and points to larger sociopolitical factors concerning power dynamics and institutional power (that is, higher education dance).

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