Improvisation as Paradigm for Phenomenologies

Midgelow, Vida L.

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“…Eugene describes what it is like to experience a supported balance with his partner vs. experiencing a press on an inanimate surface such as a sidewalk. He asks us to imagine how our walking would change if the surface upon which we placed our feet became alive and started to participate in the experience—a phenomenon that exemplifies a Merleau-Pontian (1968) chiasmic intertwining which adds an extra degree of liveliness that has been previously ascribed to walking (e.g., Ingold, 2004 ; Midgelow, 2018 ).…”

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Becoming InterActive for Life: Mobilizing Relational Knowledge for Physical Educators

Lloyd

Smith

2022

Front. Sports Act. Living

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The overarching purpose of the InterActive for Life (IA4L) project is to mobilize relational knowledge of partnered movement practices for physical education practitioners. Through a participatory, motion-sensing phenomenological methodology, relational knowledge gleaned from world class experts in salsa dance, equestrian arts, push hands Tai Chi and acroyoga, and analyzed through the Function2Flow conceptual model, was shared with Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) students. They, in turn, made sense of the ways these experts cultivate relational connections through a process of designing interactive games suitable for physical education curricula. The kinetic, kinesthetic, affective and energetic dynamics of these games were then shared through professional development workshops, mentoring, and open-access resources. Each phase of the IA4L project invites us to depart from the predominance of individualistic ways of conceiving and teaching movement and instead explore what it means to be attuned to the pulse of life as we break away from tendencies to objectify movement as something our bodies do or that is done to them. Consideration is given to the ways in which meaningful relational connections are formed in and through movement and how this learning prioritizes the InterActive Functions, Forms, Feelings and Flows of moving purposefully, playfully and expressively with others. In so doing, what this research offers is an understanding of how knowledge of an essentially motion-sensitive kind, which can breathe life into physical education curricula, can be actively and interactively mobilized.

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Becoming InterActive for Life: Mobilizing Relational Knowledge for Physical Educators

Lloyd

Smith

2022

Front. Sports Act. Living

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“…While some researchers suggest that we cannot engage in contemporary partnered dance such as tango, 'without drawing upon the exoticized/eroticized images that are part of tango's imbrications in the gendered, racialised legacies of colonialism' (Davis 2015, 15), as a phenomenologist, my interest delves into the primacy of movement (Sheets-Johnstone 1999;Sheets-Johnstone and Cunningham 2015). Attuning to what is there in the felt sense is an orientation to research shared by many dance phenomenologists (i.e., Bellerose 2018;Bingham 2018;Fraleigh 2018;Midgelow 2018;Williamson 2018) as phenomenology invites us to suspend or bracket what is imposed on our consciousness through socially constructed layers. And in turning my attention from prior motion-sensing phenomenological inquires in other contexts such as running, climbing, hulahooping, snowboarding and snowshoeing (Lloyd 2011a(Lloyd , 2011b(Lloyd , 2012a(Lloyd , 2012b(Lloyd , 2016 to the flow consciousness as it is experienced in partnered dance (Lloyd 2015a(Lloyd , 2015b(Lloyd , 2017, I aspire to add somatic depths to existing socially constructed research.…”

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The power of interactive flow in salsa dance: a motion-sensing phenomenological inquiry featuring two-time world champion, Anya Katsevman

Lloyd

2020

Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health

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What might it be like to sense one's motile power as a follower in salsa dance, particularly in moments when flow manifests? Does a follower simply go along with the lead's flow or does a different kind of flow emerge? Such questions guided this motion-sensing phenomenological (MSP) inquiry into the felt sense of power experienced in the movements of interactive flow that features two-time world salsa champion, coach, and international judge, Anya Katsevman. Over the course of four years, interviews, observations and coaching sessions were analysed through theories purported by dance phenomenologist Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, Daniel Stern, a psychologist who inspired much of Sheets-Johnstone's writing on the primacy of movement, and the radical phenomenology of Michel Henry who provides a philosophy upon which one may frame the phenomenological 'search' for meaning in kinaesthetic terms. The conceptual structure that guided the motion-sensing gathering of data and analysis was the interdisciplinary Function2Flow (F2F) model with its constitutive dimensions of movement Function, Form, Feeling and Flow. As such, the MSP analysis organized in accordance to the F2F model afforded the emergence of micro nuances, detailed physical sensations of this practice, within this macro themed structure. Hence, in detailing the bodily functions and forms of the nuanced gestural communication in salsa dance, with particular attention on the motile sense of power experienced by a follower, a physical pathway to better understanding existential feelings of interactive flow emerged.

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“…In the practice of phenomenology, one sets upon a Nietzschean open sea akin to dance improvisation. Likewise, Vida Midgelow sees improvisation as a paradigm for phenomenology (Midgelow 2018). One might begin with an idea, however, and see where it leads.…”

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Get Messed Up: Intentionality, Butoh and Freedom in Plasma

Fraleigh

2019

Performance Philosophy

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Nature relative to subjectivity is an under theorized area of performance philosophy, one that we ignore at our peril. There is such a thing as nature. It encompasses all that humans are not, and suffuses all that we are and do. It is not merely a social or cultural construction, as we consider in this essay. In order to speak more definitively of nature and the body, we employ the phenomenology of Paul Ricoeur and reach back to the lifeworld (lebenswelt) philosophy of Edmund Husserl. Some read Husserl as an essentialist, but there are other readings, such as the one developed here. One of Ricoeur’s major works, Freedom and Nature: the Voluntary and the Involuntary, concerns motives and values at the organic level, studying how habits inform individual habitus and become embodied as nature in flux. Accordingly, this essay explores subjectivity, intentionality and nature in performance using examples from butoh relative to metamorphosis, a ubiquitous process in the rhythms and multi-tiered rhizomes of nature. Through Sartre and Ricoeur, the text also considers lived values of freedom relative to intention. In this light, readers are invited to explore their own porousness and evaporations via Freedom in Plasma, a butoh to do at the end of the essay.

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Improvisation as Paradigm for Phenomenologies

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Becoming InterActive for Life: Mobilizing Relational Knowledge for Physical Educators

Becoming InterActive for Life: Mobilizing Relational Knowledge for Physical Educators

The power of interactive flow in salsa dance: a motion-sensing phenomenological inquiry featuring two-time world champion, Anya Katsevman

Get Messed Up: Intentionality, Butoh and Freedom in Plasma

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