This anthology brings a focus to practice research in which moving bodies and creative processes are imperatives. It brings together a diverse range of researchers and performers who present innovative research through single authored and co-authored projects that trouble the notion that there are limited ways of researching and performing.
As the anthology unfolds, readers are invited to consider the many different ways in which (em)bodied research and performance generates new knowledge; that is new ways of seeing the world. The approaches include phenomenology, new materialism, posthumanism, arts-based research, autoethnography, case study and ecofeminist methodologies. The wide range of methodologies performed in the book illustrate the multiple (infinite) possibilities of practice research, each of which are uniquely situated within personal, professional, spacio-temporal and socio-political contexts that enable inquiry to emerge and submerge as responsive processes. The contributors represent a wide representation from mother-artists, to psychoanalytic practitioners, to community dance artists, to performers, to somatic therapists to arts psychotherapists. Their research and performance includes non-stylised movement, improvisational dance and dance as participation in the world.
This book democratises the idea that creative moving bodies are a practice research resource that can enable each of us to become part of the wider world. It is a useful resource for students, researchers and professionals in art therapies, somatic practice and arts performance.
Edited by:
Caroline Frizell (Goldsmiths University of London UK),
Marina Rova
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 174mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032769226
ISBN 10: 103276922X
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 15 September 2025
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
,
Further / Higher Education
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming
List of Figures Acknowledgements List of contributors Chapter 1 Can we go a bit slower? Ethical meanderings through practice research: creating knowledge through and towards cultures of care. Caroline Frizell and Marina Rova Chapter 2 The entangled research team: research inquiry through collective and diffractive engagement with data. Caroline Frizell, Juliet Diener, Mark Taylor and Nicola Fay Weston Chapter 3 Creative Voices Collective: Empowering Communities Through Art and Expression. Esme Green Chapter 4 Embodied investigation and performance activism as a catalyst for change. Dagmara Bilon Chapter 5 Dear IZZI , Hi Mum. A soft approach to a movement practice between mother and daughter. Sarah Black-Frizell Chapter 6 Exploring radical self-care and community empowerment through The Body Room Marina Rova, Emma Shapiro, Katherine Brown Chapter 7 Processes Evolving in the Wood Wide Web of Be-coming Tree O.Pen Be (AKA Penelope Best), Orcid, Danièle J Minns and Jatun Risba Chapter 8 A journey through personal landscapes: An autoethnographic study of the embodied sense of place Johanna Rönkkö Chapter 9 Dwelling within the body’s forgotten and neglected garden. Have you been on your bench today? Sue Curtis Chapter 10 aRTSjAM. A therapists’ collective for embodied processing and being Cornelia Bent, Céline Butté, Marina Rova, Geoffery Unkovich and Diana Whelan Porter Chapter 11 Opening Doors to Peer Supervision Hannah Murdoch and Sue Curtis Chapter 12 In Search of Existential Joy Allyson Vuli Chapter 13 Pushing beyond limits and realigning together Lorna Hauff Chapter 14 Weaving the threads of trainer/trainee perspectives on embodied relational research during training; a tapestry of personal and communal transformation. Yeva Feldman and Annie Dearnley Chapter 15 Connection through separation: negotiating boundaries in dance movement psychotherapy with psychosis Klaudia Wittmann Chapter 16 Living the questions Nicola Fay Weston Chapter 17 Scratching Beneath the Surface: In Search of Belonging Claire Burrell, Alice Sara and Emma Teixidor-Creighton Chapter 18 Echoes across the generations; the relationship between mover and witness in audience responses to an autobiographical performance Ditty Dokter Chapter 19 Mapping the lived experience of a cultural nomad through relational stories that move Marina Rova Chapter 20 Precarious health: Moving bodies and affirmative ethics Amanda Light Chapter 21 Research and lived-experience; multi-directional spillage Caroline Frizell Epilogue Caroline Frizell and Marina Rova Index
Caroline Frizell, PhD, UKCP, RADMP, Dip. Sup. SAP is a research active, Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. She works as a private practitioner and consultant both indoors and in outdoor environments. Caroline brings principles of eco-feminism to her work as researcher, writer, educator and practitioner. Marina Rova PhD, MA, PGDip, BA Hons, SAP Dip is a Senior Lecturer, PhD supervisor and researcher at Goldsmiths University of London and clinical supervisor in private practice. She continues to explore creative inquiry as practice through collaborative writing and research projects.
