{"title":"Move like a practising bubble","authors":"Rose Woodcock","doi":"10.1386/jdsp_00100_1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Animation pedagogy often focuses on preparing students for work in the creative industries. As such, story and character development are emphasized over other possibilities of animation practice. However, I argue that movement – as a somatic practice – is fundamental to the task of teaching and learning animation. What better material to work with than the moving body with which we have all been practising since infancy? Yet movement is itself prone to fetishized imagery of hard-bodied frenetic motion that endangers its own body/bodies and habitats. This article explores the image of the soap bubble for thinking about the precarity of creative practice. To imagine the soap bubble as a practitioner of somaticity is to take on an ethics of the moving body that recognizes the precarity with which all bodies move while holding their form. I employ the inherent tensile ‘stretchiness’ of language to imagine what it would be to ‘move like a practising bubble’.","PeriodicalId":41455,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1386/jdsp_00100_1","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"DANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Animation pedagogy often focuses on preparing students for work in the creative industries. As such, story and character development are emphasized over other possibilities of animation practice. However, I argue that movement – as a somatic practice – is fundamental to the task of teaching and learning animation. What better material to work with than the moving body with which we have all been practising since infancy? Yet movement is itself prone to fetishized imagery of hard-bodied frenetic motion that endangers its own body/bodies and habitats. This article explores the image of the soap bubble for thinking about the precarity of creative practice. To imagine the soap bubble as a practitioner of somaticity is to take on an ethics of the moving body that recognizes the precarity with which all bodies move while holding their form. I employ the inherent tensile ‘stretchiness’ of language to imagine what it would be to ‘move like a practising bubble’.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices is an international refereed journal published twice a year. It has been in publication since 2009 for scholars and practitioners whose research interests focus on the relationship between dance and somatic practices, and the influence that this body of practice exerts on the wider performing arts. In recent years, somatic practices have become more central to many artists'' work and have become more established within educational and training programmes. Despite this, as a body of work it has remained largely at the margins of scholarly debate, finding its presence predominantly through the embodied knowledge of practitioners and their performative contributions. This journal provides a space to debate the work, to consider the impact and influence of the work on performance and discuss the implications for research and teaching. The journal serves a broad international community and invites contributions from a wide range of discipline areas. Particular features include writings that consciously traverse the boundaries between text and performance, taking the form of ‘visual essays'', interviews with leading practitioners, book reviews, themed issues and conference/symposium reports.