@article{1482373,
      recid = {1482373},
      author = {Nicely, Megan V.},
      title = {Experimental dance and the somatics of language thinking  in micromovement / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Palgrave Macmillan,},
      address = {Cham :},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      year = {2023},
      abstract = {Impeccably crafted. Nicely articulates the ways in which  language manifests in sensation and movement. She asks  important and nuanced questions about presence and  awareness of ourselves and others in changing spaces and  relationships, separated by Covid, ignited by social  protest. An invaluable text to gain philosophical currency  for sensate experience, offering exciting new formulations  for dance studies. Tanya Calamoneri, Assistant Professor,  The Ohio State University, author of Butoh America In  Experimental Dance and the Somatics of Language, Nicely  investigates the use of language in dance practice by  considering the somatics of micromovement in three phases  vibration, interval, and adaptation. Nicely's ingenious  move, after Deleuze, is to give language a body on the  dance floor. Language, reconfigured as a source of  sensation, becomes a critical analytic tool for Nicely to  think through dance works past and present, contributing to  performance studies ongoing inquiry into how speech acts.  Melinda Buckwalter, Managing Director, Five College Dance,  author of Composing while Dancing This book is about dances  relationship to language. It investigates how dance bodies  work with the micromovements elicited by languages  affective forces, and the micropolitics of the  thought-sensations that arise when movement and words  accompany one another within choreographic contexts.  Situating itself where theory meets practicethe zone where  ideas arise to be tested, the book draws on embodied  research in practices within the lineages of American  postmodern dance and Japanese butoh, set in dialog with  affect-based philosophies and somatics. Understanding that  language is felt, both when uttered and when unspoken, this  book speaks to the choreographic thinking that takes place  when language is considered a primary element in creating  the sensorium. Megan V. Nicely is an artist/scholar whose  research involves choreographic experimentation through the  medium of the body. She has published in TDR, Choreographic  Practices, Performance Research Journal, and others, and  her company Megan Nicely/Dance has performed on both U.S.  coasts, in the U.K., and in Europe. She is Associate  Professor of Performing Arts and Social Justice/Dance at  University of San Francisco. .},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1482373},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30296-1},
}