" How to Land: Finding Ground in an Unstable World foregrounds the importance of embodiment as a means of surviving the disorientation of our twenty-first century world. Linking somatics and politics, author Ann Cooper Albright argues that a renewed attention to gravity as both a metaphoric sensibility and a physical experience can help transform moments of personal disorientation into an opportunity to reflect on the important relationship between individual resiliency and communal responsibility. Long one of the nation's preeminent thinkers in dance studies, Albright asks how contemporary bodies are affected by repeated images of falling bodies, bombed-out buildings, and displaced peoples, as well as recurring evocations of global economies and governments in discursive free fall or dissolution. What kind of fear gets lodged in connective tissue when there is an underlying anxiety that certain aspects of our world are in danger of falling apart? To answer this question, she draws on analyses of perception from cognitive studies, tracing the discussions of meaning, body and language through the work of Sara Ahmed, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Shaun Gallagher, among others. In addition, she follows the past decade of debate in contemporary media concerning the implications of the weightless and two-dimensional social media exchanges on structures of attention and learning, as well as their effect on the personal growth and socialization of a generation of young adults. Each chapter interweaves discussions of movement actions with their cultural implications, documenting specific bodily experiences and then tracing their ideological ripples out through the world. " 4e de couverture

Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction

- Falling
- Disorientation
- Suspension
- Gravity
- Resilience
- Connection

- Afterword

Contient aussi : des notes, une bibliographie et un index[-]

" Nous ne connaissons aucune société humaine sans danse.

Mais pourquoi éprouvons-nous le besoin de danser? Pourquoi certains mouvement nous émeuvent-ils, nous procurent-ils un tel sentiment de vie ? Que nous apprend cet art sur les liens entre discipline et liberté?

Alexandre Lacroix a eu l'autorisation exceptionnelle de pénétrer dans les coulisses de l'Opéra de Paris. Pendant plusieurs mois, il a suivi le travail des danseurs étoiles Ludmila, Pagliero et Stéphane Bullion qui, par leurs mots, leurs gestes, lui ont permis d'entrer dans l'intimité de leur art.

Le résultat est un essai nous ouvrant les yeux sur ce qui se joue dans la danse. Une enquête philosophique qui réjouira les néophytes comme les amateurs éclairés, car sa lecture intensifie notre plaisir de spectateur et de danseur." 4e de couverture[-]

"The result of more than two decades of research and practice, 'The endless web' presents in clear, readable language a comprehensive guide to understanding and working effectively with the myofascial system, the 'packing material' of the body. Myofascia is a flexible network of tissue that surrounds, cushions, and supports muscles, bones, and organs. It also acts as a riverbed containing the flow of interstitial fluid, and is a critical influence on the immune and hormonal systems. In daily life, this connective tissue is an underlying determinant of movement quality, mood, alertness, and general well-being. 'The endless web' is a fully illustrated guide to understanding how myofascia works, its supportive role within the body's anatomy, and how gentle manipulation of the myofascial tissue is central to lasting therapeutic intervention and how it can be integrated into any bodywork practice." -- P. [4] de la couv.

Comprend des index.[-]