Publisher's Synopsis
12 contemporary approaches to the human body that are being used by performers or in the context of performance training. The 12 lenses draw on techniques like body-mind centering, Feldenkrais and Alexander technique; approaches like corporeal feminism and object relations, thinkers like Laban, Deleuze, Damasio and Merleau-Ponty; and practitioners like Erin Manning, Joan Davis, and Jane Bennett.