Embodied Performances ― Sexuality, Gender, Bodies

Drawing from the author's unique interdisciplinary experience Embodied Performances, now available in paperback, responds to the feminist call for advances in conversations across disciplines. Through a pioneering integration of performance, psychotherapy and feminist philosophy it offers an understanding and critique of embodiment and proposes expansive ways of deconstructing (undoing) and re-constituting (re-doing) sexuality and gender and thus more embodied and ethical ways of 'doing' life. Embodied Performances presents innovative ways of 'knowing' and 're-visioning' which evolves the contemporary zeitgeist by: allying digital media with established forms and considering the socially constructed and biological body at the forefront of theory and practice in both the arts and humanities. In addition, it provides practice-based evidence in the form of thirty-six short online film episodes and stills, forming an integral part of the unfolding discussion in each chapter.

Beatrice Allegranti is Reader in Dance Movement Psychotherapy and Director of the Centre for Arts Therapies Research at the University of Roehampton, UK. Her national and international experience encompasses choreography and filmmaking as well as clinical practice and supervision. Beatrice's feminist research investigates the boundaries and politics of moving bodies in performance, psychotherapeutic and scientific contexts. Recent films and practice based research include: Becoming Bodies (2013), a dance–science collaboration; Your Story Calls Me (2013) – 10 autobiographical stories of loss; and What Moves Us a neuro-psycho-social investigation into kinesthetic intersubjectivity in the Capoeira exchange. www.beatriceallegranti.com