Subjective and Neurophysiological Perspectives on Emotion Perception from Dance Marie-Helene Grosbras, Matthew Reason, Haodan Tan, Rosie Kay, and Frank Pollick.Dance in the Body, the Mind, and the Brain: Neurocognitive Research Inspired by Dancers and their Audience Bettina Bläsing.The Dancing Queen: Explanatory Mechanisms of the ‘Feel-Good Effect’ in Dance Corinne Jola and Luis Calmeiro.Introduction Vicky Karkou, Sue Oliver, and Sophia Lycouris.The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing.It offers examples of diverse practices, presenting evidence of effects on mental health and quality of life, and discussing patients’ perceptions of dance in their health care programmes.
Section E, Dance in Health Care Contexts, includes dance work in primary care, hospitals or linked with medical thinking. Issues such as identity, social engagement, cohesion and empowerment are discussed. Section D, Dance in the Community, emphasises sociological, anthropological and political aspects of dance, covering diverse groups and genres of dance, exploring participants’ feelings of wellbeing. It covers pedagogical methodology, personal and social achievement, assessment of wellbeing and dance curricula, opening up discussion on cultural diversity and how fixed notions of learning and self-identity can be challenged through dance, thus affecting wellbeing. Section C, Dance in Education, addresses students’ experiences of dance/movement practices and wellbeing in both mainstream and special education. Contributions discuss new approaches to wellbeing and how audiences, performers and choreographers/directors can understand and share experiences of wellbeing also how this can inform research on wellbeing in a wider dance context.
Section B, Dance within a Performative Context, considers dance as art, including choreography and appreciation. Chapters refer to anatomical, physiological and neuroscientific perspectives through somatic, psychological and spiritual approaches to movement and dance, reflecting a continuum from objective to subjective approaches to the topic.
Section A, Dance in the Body, focuses on experiences of wellbeing in our bodies through movement and dance. This book embraces diverse perspectives of dance and its effects on wellbeing for individuals in various contexts.
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