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ERIC Number: EJ1311009
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 6
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ISSN: ISSN-1529-0824
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Dance Lessons for Writers: Embodied Language Applications for Movement Classrooms
Journal of Dance Education, v21 n3 p192-197 2021
Recent scholarship in 4E Cognition posits what dancers intuitively know so well--that our conceptual maps and communicative strategies emerge directly from and in fluid relationship with our own bodily habitation of our world. This article offers a pedagogical strategy aimed to bridge the ontological divide between dancing and writing through the practice of embodied writing. Or rather, this article offers creative tools for unlearning the antiquated Cartesian notion that a mind-body divide exists in the first place. Quite simply, embodied writing practices help to remind us that the physical gesture of writing is in fact a form of dance. Through the practice of actively joining writing and dancing within one perceptual plane, both our writing and our dancing can improve. As I contextualize embodied writing within the 4E Cognition framework, I will share a teaching methodology aimed to heighten our creative fluency as writers, dancemakers, and interdisciplinary scholars.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Washington
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