The performing arts represent a significant part of the artistic production in our culture. Correspondingly the fields of drama, film, music, opera, dance and performance studies are expanding. However, these arts remain an underexplored territory for aesthetics and the philosop…
The performing arts represent a significant part of the artistic production in our culture. Correspondingly the fields of drama, film, music, opera, dance and performance studies are expanding. However, these arts remain an underexplored territory for aesthetics and the philosop…
Expression in the Performing Arts
The performing arts represent a significant part of the artistic production in our culture. Correspondingly the fields of drama, film, music, opera, dance and performance studies are expanding. However, these arts remain an underexplored territory for aesthetics and the philosop…
The performing arts represent a significant part of the artistic production in our culture. Correspondingly the fields of drama, film, music, opera, dance and performance studies are expanding. However, these arts remain an underexplored territory for aesthetics and the philosop…
Introduction: what can a body do? -- An epistemology of practice -- The invention of postural yoga -- Actors without a theatre -- Gender as technique -- Embodied research in the university In What a Body Can Do, Ben Spatz develops, for the first time, a rigorous theory of embod…
In What a Body Can Do, Ben Spatz develops, for a first time, a rigorous theory of embodied technique as knowledge. He argues that understanding technique as a field of both training and research has much to offer current discussions around the role of practice in the university,…
In What a Body Can Do, Ben Spatz develops, for a first time, a rigorous theory of embodied technique as knowledge. He argues that understanding technique as a field of both training and research has much to offer current discussions around the role of practice in the university,…
"Blue Sky Body: Thresholds for Embodied Research is the follow-up to Ben Spatz's 2015 book What a Body Can Do, charting a course through more than twenty years of embodied, artistic, and scholarly research. Emerging from the confluence of theory and practice, this book combines …