Books on Dance and the Feldenkrais Method

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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, 207-220. Methuen Drama, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc: London, 2022..

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

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.

Fortin, Sylvie. “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, 220-232. Methuen Drama, Bloomsbury Publishing Pic; London, 2022.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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, 17-37. Methuen Drama, Bloomsbury Publishing Pic: London, 2022.

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, 75-82. Methuen Drama, Bloomsbury Publishing Pic: London, 2022.

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

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.

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

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.