Learning from your living body is now possible. This book brings together films recorded on GoPro cameras, complied on a DVD produced by Raoul Bender, our photographs taken at training sessions and our interviews with artists from the National Centre for Circus Arts (Centre national du cirque, CNAC) in Châlons-en-Champagne.Each person can recognise three types of movements in their bodies: the involuntary gestures that our living body makes as it adapts, gestures integrated by techniques and learning, and intentional gestures that are aware of our motor decisions.Emotions, affects, fear and vertigo find unique information in the living body which contribute to our well-being. Analysing movement boosts both body confidence and self-esteem. Sharing gestures with other bod ...
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Learning from your body A new analysis of activity Situating action in the living body Discovering sensations Access to the body Techniques of the living body and the lived body Unconscious adjustments of the living body Analysing the typology of gestures in the first person From physical exercise to habitus From practice to bodily experience Immersion of the situated movement in the playing field Unconsciously embodied techniques Contortion or circumventing the body schema? The temporality of action Sensation in the first person Emersion of the living body in the self Attention and visual processing Concentration of the hands and attention to the living Intentional gesture and motor anticipation Body confidence An intimate perception A double viewpoint on tempo Automatic movements and body techniques Conclusion : Injury as a return to consciousness
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Postface: How does the body apprehend a new movement? Daily training in the circus arts The visual body and the formula for movement The tactile body and its interactions The living body is a body schema
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The National centre for circus arts Teachers who collaborated on this project Professional participants Students
Learning from your living body is now possible. This book brings together films recorded on GoPro cameras, complied on a DVD produced by Raoul Bender, our photographs taken at training sessions and our interviews with artists from the National Centre for Circus Arts (Centre national du cirque, CNAC) in Châlons-en-Champagne.Each person can recognise three types of movements in their bodies: the involuntary gestures that our living body makes as it adapts, gestures integrated by techniques and learning, and intentional gestures that are aware of our motor decisions.Emotions, affects, fear and vertigo find unique information in the living body which contribute to our well-being. Analysing movement boosts both body confidence and self-esteem. Sharing gestures with other bodies nurtures good intercorporeality.