Floating Bones: A Dancer's Tensegretic Body as Teacher

Floating Bones explores the author's journey into tensegrity, a model that shifts the focus of support from bones to muscles and soft connective tissue. It connects somatics, cognition, rhetoric, and reflective practices to demonstrate how the experiential perspective of tensegrity constructs physical evidence of the rhetorical concept of metis, where the body thinks as it moves.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 112 pages
Publication date: 30 May 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Floating Bones: A Journey into Tensegrity

The author embarks on a captivating journey into the world of tensegrity, a revolutionary concept that challenges traditional biomechanical models. Instead of relying on bone support, tensegrity proposes that the bones float, and it is the muscles and other soft connective tissue that provide the necessary support for the moving body. Through the lens of tensegrity's experiential model, Roses-Thema intricately weaves together somatics, cognition, rhetoric, and reflective practices, unveiling the means to approach the body as a teacher. This groundbreaking study presents an argument for expanding the models of thinking to encompass bodily thinking, highlighting how the tensegrity's experiential perspective generates tangible evidence of the rhetorical concept of metis, where the body thinks as it moves.

This captivating book holds immense appeal to students, scholars, and practitioners of dance, theater, and sociology alike. It offers a profound exploration of the body's potential, shedding light on new ways of understanding movement, expression, and the human experience. With its rich insights and innovative approach, Floating Bones serves as a valuable resource for anyone seeking to deepen their understanding of the body and its transformative power.

Weight: 208g
Dimension: 216 x 138 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367634599