"I consider that autobiographical material derives from an ongoing, shifting set of relations, where individual autobiographies intersect with the wider environment to create collective autobiographies. While Davis’s approach to somatic movement practice centres on the subjective experience and impulses of the mover, these come from being in relationship with the inhabited environment including people, places and events. In addition, the mover and audience-participant are informed by embodied personal histories from past interrelationships that impact behaviours and interpretations in the present time."
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"At the same time as recognising that autobiography is developed in relationship, I also see it as experienced subjectively through the body, a result of my training in witnessing and tracking my movement behaviour in Authentic Movement practice. For example, all of my descriptive writings in this chapter describe the effects of the external environment and their impact on my individual body. However, I also hope these writings have a broader scope, moving beyond simply describing my internal experience, and instead, opening a space for writings that value subjective experience over the body as object, as well as acknowledging how bodies are informed by the contexts they inhabit."
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"This reflects somatic trainings where the behaviour patterns of the individual are understood as emerging from their interaction with the contexts they inhabit."
Emma Meehan
The Autobiographical Body
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"At the same time as recognising that autobiography is developed in relationship, I also see it as experienced subjectively through the body, a result of my training in witnessing and tracking my movement behaviour in Authentic Movement practice. For example, all of my descriptive writings in this chapter describe the effects of the external environment and their impact on my individual body. However, I also hope these writings have a broader scope, moving beyond simply describing my internal experience, and instead, opening a space for writings that value subjective experience over the body as object, as well as acknowledging how bodies are informed by the contexts they inhabit."
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"This reflects somatic trainings where the behaviour patterns of the individual are understood as emerging from their interaction with the contexts they inhabit."
Emma Meehan
The Autobiographical Body
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