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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 288 pages, height x width x depth: 279x216x15 mm, weight: 771 g, Illustrations
  • Izdošanas datums: 04-Feb-2020
  • Izdevniecība: Wesleyan University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0819579467
  • ISBN-13: 9780819579461
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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 288 pages, height x width x depth: 279x216x15 mm, weight: 771 g, Illustrations
  • Izdošanas datums: 04-Feb-2020
  • Izdevniecība: Wesleyan University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0819579467
  • ISBN-13: 9780819579461
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"Body is our first environment," writes Andrea Olsen. "It is the medium through which we know the earth." In a remarkable integration of environmental science, biology, meditation, and creative expression, Olsen, a dancer who teaches in the environmental studies program at Middlebury College, offers a guide to a holistic understanding of person and place. Part workbook, part exploration, Body and Earth considers the question of how we can best, most responsibly inhabit both our bodies and our planet. Olsen displays an easy command of fields as diverse as geology, biochemistry, ecology, and anatomy as she explores the ways in which our bodies are derived from and connected to the natural world. But Body and Earth is not just a lesson, it is also an investigation. Arranged as a 31-day program, the book offers not only a wealth of scientific information, but also exercises for both exploring the body and connecting with place; illustrations and works of art that illuminate each chapter's themes; and Olsen's own meditations and reflections, connecting the topics to her personal history and experience. Olsen insists that neither body nor landscape are separate from our fundamental selves, but in a culture which views the body as a mechanism to be trained and the landscape as a resource to be exploited, we need to learn to see again their fundamental wholeness and interconnection. Through hard data, reflection, exercises, and inspiration, Body and Earth offers a guide to responsible stewardship of both our planet and our persons.
Foreword: John Elder xi
Preface: Bill McKibben xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Entering the Text: Origins xvii
Stories of place in our time are often stories of migration. Anecdote: "Openings and Closings" xvii
Introduction xxi
This text is about relationship. We are part of, rather than separate from, the intricate world we live in. Anecdote: "Hunting for Hope" xxi
Preparation: Body and Earth is a book to be done as well as to be read xxiii
Section I Underlying Patterns and Perception
Day 1 Basic Concepts
3(4)
We begin in wholeness
Anecdotes: "Connections"
3(1)
To do: Inner and outer awareness
4(1)
To do: Finding your place
5(1)
Performance text: Farmstories (1994)
6(1)
Day 2 Attitudes
7(4)
Our attitudes inform our actions
Anecdotes: "Views"
7(2)
To do: Body map
9(1)
To do: Place story
10(1)
Performance text: Models---The Traveler
10(1)
Day 3 Underlying Patterns: Body
11(6)
We live in a fluid body; our origins were in the primordial seas
Anecdotes: "Heritage"
11(3)
To do: Pouring the fluid body
14(1)
To do: Vessel breath
15(1)
To do: Fish swish
15(1)
Performance text: Water
16(1)
Day 4 Underlying Patterns: The Upright Stance
17(6)
Bipedal alignment is our two-footed stance
Anecdotes: "Standing Up"
18(2)
To do: Postural alignment (Mountain Pose)
20(1)
To do: Spinal undulations (Standing)
21(1)
Performance text: Arriving
22(1)
Day 5 Underlying Patterns: Earth
23(8)
Understanding place requires both a microscopic and a macroscopic perspective
Anecdotes: "Rhythm"
23(5)
To do: Bonding with gravity
28(1)
To do: Timeline
28(1)
To do: De-evolutionary sequence
29(1)
Performance text: Soil
30(1)
Day 6 Underlying Patterns: A Bioregional Approach
31(8)
A bioregional perspective merges nature and culture
Anecdote: "Nature and Culture"
31(5)
To do: Place scan
36(2)
To do: Telling your place story
38(1)
Performance text: Edges
38(1)
Day 7 Mind: Brain and Nervous System
39(10)
The human mind orchestrates our actions and our reactions
Anecdotes: "Changing Mind"
39(8)
To do: Patterns of mind
47(1)
To do: Lobes of the brain
48(1)
Performance text: Edges II
48(1)
Day 8 Visceral Body
49(6)
The visceral body produces our "gut feelings."
Anecdotes: "Needs"
49(4)
To do: Pouring the gut body
53(1)
To do: The box
53(1)
To do: Inner observer
54
Performance text: The Cardboard Box
53(2)
Day 9 Perception
55(8)
We construct our view of the world through our senses
Anecdotes: "Expectations"
56(4)
To do: Naming the sensory receptors
60(1)
To do: Seeing and being seen (the witness)
60(1)
Place visit: Expectation and projection
61(1)
Performance text: Sky
62(1)
Day 10 Touch
63(7)
Touch underlies all the other senses
Anecdotes: "Stroking"
64(3)
To do: Layers of touch
67(1)
To do: Basket of objects
68(1)
Performance text: Quilts
68(2)
Day 11 Movement
70(7)
Movement partners the dynamics of the earth
Anecdotes: "Dancing in Place"
71(4)
To do: Yielding and standing
75(1)
To do: Authentic Movement (the mover)
75(1)
To do: Dance a day
76(1)
Performance text: Models---The Boat
76(1)
Day 12 Sound and Hearing
77(7)
Sound touches us
Anecdotes: "Listening"
78(4)
To do: Vibrations
82(1)
To do: Audible breath
82(1)
To do: Sound score
83(1)
Performance text: Listening
83(1)
Day 13 Vision
84(11)
The way we see shapes our view of the world
Anecdotes: "Perspectives"
85(5)
To do: Changing focus
90(1)
To do: Snapshots
90(1)
Performance text: Remembering
91(4)
Section II Body and Earth
Day 14 Bones
95(10)
Bones connect us to the ground
Anecdotes: "Basics"
95(7)
To do: Axial skeleton
102(1)
To do: Moving all the bones
103(1)
Performance text: Crossing Over (1996)
104(1)
Day 15 Soil
105(7)
Soil is the skin of the earth
Anecdotes: "Prints"
106(3)
To do: Reading the signs
109(1)
To do: Savasana: Corpse pose
110(1)
Performance text: Holes
111(1)
Day 16 Breath and Voice
112(8)
Perhaps the most sensuous experience is the feel of our own breath
Anecdote: "Practicing Sound"
115(2)
To do: Lung breathing
117(1)
To do: Moving vibrations: Lips to pharynx
118(1)
Place visit: Resonance
119(1)
Performance text: Ceremony of Purpose
119(1)
Day 17 Air
120(7)
Air is the dynamic medium in which we live
Anecdotes: "Invisible Air"
121(3)
To do: Flute
124(1)
To do: Empty spaces
125(1)
Performance text: Calling
126(1)
Day 18 Muscle
127(9)
Muscles move us through the landscape
Anecdotes: "Body Language"
127(6)
To do: Strengthening and lengthening
133(2)
To do: Lion
135(1)
Place visit: Light touch duet
135(1)
Performance text: Bridge
135(1)
Day 19 Animals
136(7)
Animals are our kin
Anecdotes: "Company"
136(4)
To do: Lateral line
140(1)
To do: Reading the signs
141(1)
Place visit: Observe an animal
142(1)
Performance text: Floating
142(1)
Day 20 Endocrine System
143(6)
The endocrine system can be considered our system of transformation
Anecdotes: "Lifting Off"
144(2)
To do: Balancing the endocrine system with sound
146(2)
To do: Elevated pelvis (Modified Bridge Pose)
148(1)
Performance text: The Bear
148(1)
Day 21 Insects
149(6)
Insects change from one form to another in a process called metamorphosis
Anecdotes: "Greetings"
150(3)
To do: Noticing insects
153(1)
To do: Insect stories
154(1)
Performance text: First Visits---I
154(1)
Day 22 Digestion and Nutrition
155(9)
Digestion incorporates the nutrients of the earth into the tissues of our bodies
Anecdotes: "Food"
156(5)
To do: Lunch
161(1)
To do: Tracing the digestive tract
161(2)
Performance text: First Visits---II
163(1)
Day 23 Plants
164(7)
Plants provide food for every other living organism
Anecdotes: "Views"
164(4)
To do: Locating a tree through touch
168(1)
To do: Perspectives
169(1)
Performance text: Talking to Trees
170(1)
Day 24 Fluids
171(7)
Fluids are connectors
Anecdotes: "Transitions"
171(4)
To do: Moving with the fluids
175(2)
Performance text: Skin
177(1)
Day 25 Water
178(11)
Water is essential for life
Anecdotes: "Inside Stories"
179(5)
To do: Reading the signs
184(1)
To do: Tai ji: Receptive Stance
184(2)
Performance text: Returns
186(3)
Section III Connections
Day 26 Connections
189(5)
We understand the connections between body and earth through experience
Anecdotes: "Connections"
190(2)
To do: Comings and goings
192(1)
To do: Nature and culture
192(1)
Performance text: Writing Home (2000)
193(1)
Day 27 Motion and Emotion
194(8)
We track emotions in the body through sensation
Anecdotes: "Completing the Picture"
194(5)
To do: Tracking emotions
199(1)
To do: Shaking it off
200(1)
Performance text: The Stream
200(1)
Place visit: Riding the wave
201(1)
Day 28 Sensuality and Sexuality
202(6)
We connect to the environment with rich sensorial experience
Anecdotes: "Longing"
202(5)
To do: Romance of place
207(1)
To do: Merging with landscape
207(1)
Performance text: The Lake
207(1)
Day 29 Art and the Environment
208(8)
As we feel, we care
Anecdotes: "Dimensions"
208(5)
To do: Creative process
213(1)
To do: Arranging
213(2)
To do: Specifically for dancers: Site works
215(1)
Performance text: Fire
215(1)
Day 30 Concerning the Spiritual
216(8)
Reflection on body and earth reminds us of our wholeness
Anecdotes: "Endings as Beginnings"
216(6)
To do: Ritual circle
222(1)
To do: The discipline of Authentic Movement: Triads
222(1)
Performance text: The Road
222(2)
Day 31 Embracing Place
224(7)
As we imagine earth as body, we can no longer remain separate
Anecdotes: "Growing"
224(4)
To do: Personal project
228(1)
Place visit: Create an ending ritual
229(1)
Performance text: Writing Home
229(2)
Notes 231(6)
Sources and Resources 237(2)
Selected Bibliography 239(2)
Subject Index 241(4)
Art Index 245