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Books on Dance and the Feldenkrais Method

Beverley Aitchison- CA

Integration of Dynamic Movement Concepts into the Ballet Technique Class for the Development of Movement Quality. Thesis, University of Quebec at Montreal, 2012.

Rebecca Barnstable- CA

Barnstaple, Rebecca. Movement in Mind: Dance, Self-Awareness and Sociality -

An investigation of dance as treatment/therapy. Thesis, York University, Toronto. 2016. https://yorkspace.library.yorku.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/b89d4151-7799-4e11-a7af-3b8707069eb4/content

Marcia Carr - UK

Carr, Marcia. “Tuning the Body: Acting, Dancing and Singing from Rehearsal to Performance.” In The Feldenkrais Method in Creative Practice: Dance, Music, and Theater, edited by Robert Sholl. London: Methuen Drama - Bloomsbury Publishing Plc: London, 2022.

Martha Eddy - US

Eddy, Martha. Mindful Movement: The Evolution of the Somatic Arts and Conscious Action. Intellect, 2016. 

While not written by a Feldenkrais Teacher, Dr. Eddy includes Feldenkrais Method as part of the development of somatic education that include performing arts.

Sally Sevey Fitt

Fitt, Sally Sevey. Dance Kinesiology. Cengage Learning, 1996.

This book reflects modern techniques and includes articles addressing eight important systems of body work: the Pilates Method, Rolfing, the Feldenkrais Method, the Alexander Technique, Ideokinesis, Body-Mind Centering, the Bartenieff Fundamentals, and Laban Movement Analysis.

Sylvie Fortin - CA

“Food for No-Thought…Meandering Between a Personal Somatic Practice and Feldenkrais Teaching.” In The Feldenkrais Method in Creative Practice: Dance, Music, and Theater, edited by Robert Sholl. London: Methuen Drama - Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.

Lise Saladain - FR

Lise, Saladain. Critical approach to the "body available" in the choreographic field: a contribution to the study of the ways in which the world of dance is structured through the entry of the dissemination of knowledge. Dissertation, University of Bordeaux, 2017. French. 

Sondra Horton Fraleigh - US

Fraleigh, Sondra Horton. Moving Consciously : Somatic Transformations through Dance, Yoga, and Touch. University of Illinois Press, 2017.

Sondra Horton Fraleigh - US

Fraleigh, Sondra Horton. Dance and the Lived Body. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996.

This is book is not specifically about the Feldenkrais Method, but is relevant.

Sondra Horton Fraleigh - US

Fraleigh, Sondra Horton. Dancing Identity: Metaphysics in Motion. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004.

This is book is not specifically about the Feldenkrais Method, but is relevant.

Sondra Horton Fraleigh - US

Fraleigh, Sondra Horton. Back to the Dance Itself : Phenomenologies of the Body in Performance. University Of Illinois Press, 2018.

Sondra Horton Fraleigh - US

Fraleigh, Sondra Horton. Somatics in Dance, Ecology, and Ethics. University of Chicago Press, 2023. 

Detta Howe - UK

Howe, Detta. The Body and Being in Performance - deep awareness to enrich a dance practice. Masters Theses. University of Chichester, 2013.

Thomas Kampe - UK

Kampe, Thomas. “Dancing the Soma-Ecstatic: Feldenkrais and the Modernist Body.” In The Feldenkrais Method in Creative Practice: Dance, Music, and Theater, edited by Robert Sholl. London: Methuen Drama - Bloomsbury Publishing Pic: London, 2022.

Thomas Kampe - UK

Kampe, Thomas. "Eros and inquiry: the Feldenkrais Method® as a complex resource,”. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 6, no.2 (2015): 200–218. 

Warwick Long - CA

Long, Warwick. Sensing Difference: Student and Teacher Perceptions on the Integration of the Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education and Contemporary Dance Technique. Thesis, University of Otago, New Zealand, 2002.

Melanie J. Meenan - US

Meenan, Melanie J. Exploring the Modern Dance Technique Class. Thesis, University of Oregon, 2013.

Lesley McLennan and Julie Peck - US

McLennan, Lesley Julie Peck. Moving from the inside Out: 7 Principles for Ease and Mastery in Movement, a Feldenkrais Approach. North Atlantic Books, 2020.

Maxine Sheets-Johnstone - US

Sheets-Johnstone, Maxine. “The Work of Dr. Moshé Feldenkrais: A New Applied Kinesiology and a Radical Questioning of Training and technique.” In The Feldenkrais Method in Creative Practice: Dance, Music, and Theater, edited by Robert Sholl. London: Methuen Drama -Bloomsbury Publishing Pic: London, 2022.

Ami Shulman and Hillen D. Braud - US

Shulman, Ami, Hillen D. Braud“‘ What If…’ A Question of Transcendence.” In Back to the Dance Itself Phenomenologies of the Body in Performance. University Of Illinois Press: Champaign/Urbana, 2018.

Eva Urbanova, CZ

Urbanova, Eva. Possibilities of Application of Feldenkrais Method in Dance, Bachelor Thesis. Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Czech Republic, 2017.

Robert Vesty - UK

Vesty, Robert.  Material Words for Voicing Dancers: A practice-led inquiry into the role of voice for the improvising dancer, Ph.D Disertation. Royal Holloway University of London, 2020.

Libby Worth - UK

Worth, Libby. "Mining Anatomy: Moving Naturally." In Dancing Naturally: Nature, Neo-Classicism and Modernity in Early Twentieth-Century Dance, edited by A. Carter and R. Fensham, 155–169. 1st ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9780230278448.


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