Effortlessness Luettringhaus

PRACTICE & POLITICS OF EFFORTLESSNESS LIST
"Life is a balance of holding on and letting go."

Rumi
GOALS
Key questions for this list can be broken into three main areas:
1) Defining effort and effortlessness, primarily in physical practice, but also in socio-political contexts.
2) Researching ways of knowing and practicing differently, primarily in physical practice.
3) Analyzing the connections between the various social, political, philosophical and kinaesthetic
expressions of the practice of effortlessness and it's many manifestations.
feminist pedagogy, axis syllabus, non-violent communication, rolfing, hannah somatics, ballet, etc
WHAT IS EFFORT? WHAT IS

EFFORTLESSNESS?
This list focuses on the practice and the philosophy of effortlessness. Within the context of list 1
"Disarticulating" I am positioning effortlessness as a counterpoint to violence, and in particular
violence against the body in movement. Effortlessness is therefore also illuminated within this
context and examined for its potential to offer a philosophy and practical method for countering
violence, the practices and structures of domination.
How are effort and violence linked? Is effort automatically closer to violence than effortlessness?
In List 1 I am analyzing of western society's particular forms of violence are based around ideologies
of effort and if those definitions of effort treat effort for what it really is, or if it too is twisted beyond
recognition. List 1 examines efforts of normatization and the creation of hierarchical systems as
related to personal and systemic violence. In order to explain this reasoning further, I firstly looked at
power and violence in physical, educational, social, and political areas and their inter-relatedness
within western epistemologies. List 2 imagines how to think differently, how to queer and upend the
hegemonic paradigm of domination systems and what the effects of such a change might be. How
far does the current status quo have to be changed or inverted in order to reach a more balanced way
of living and find more effortlessness, more gentleness and respect. I need to define effortlessness
first in order to begin this conversation. We know what we want to turn away from: violence. What is
it we are turning toward and can violence be circumvented at all in life? How is violence defined in a
system that thinks differently? What is violence in a system that values non-violence? How far does
the pendulum swing before the inverse creates another system of oppression. So within the search
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for a counterpart to violence I will look for philosophies around non-violence, the middle-path, and
other ways of seeing and imagining interaction among bodies of all kinds.
What are the differences between effort and effortlessness? Are they opposites to one another? Or
are they composites of one another's particular aspects?
Or do each, as in Daoist philosophy, hold a little of the other within?
What different kinds of effort and effortlessness could be influencing movement (and vice versa)?
DEFINING NON-VIOLENCE &

EFFORTLESSNESS
Hinduism
Jainism
Daoism
Ahimsa
Paulo Freire
Marshall Rosenberg
Wu Wei
FROM THE INSIDE OUT

FINDING EFFORTLESSNESS FROM THE INSIDE OUT
My journey into studies in effortlessness started from the practice and teaching of movement classes
inspired by the work of the Axis Syllabus and my creative work as a choreographer with my methods
around movement as language. These activities led me to rediscover Daoism, and to connect my
movement research to more spiritual approaches, to indigenous voices, to honorable harvests, to
non-violent communication, to feminist and queer theory, to disability studies, to animal liberation
and to attempt to write a philosophy of articulation. An articulation that is an expression in the
linguistic sense, but also in an embodied sense, in an articulated sense with healthy joints where all
members of the being can contribute and facilitate a beautiful orchestration of movement and life.

Healing!
On this other side I am analyzing the practice of effortlessness in movement practice and philosophy
for its potentiality to be a catalyst for change towards less violent ways of being.
The physical practice of effortlessness helps me find more eloquent expression of my frustrations
with other, widely practiced, ways of moving, as well as identify possible alternatives to what I
perceive as effortful, or violent, ways of moving and being.
This research into effortlessness very gently emerges from within my body to replace 20 years of a
project of critique, an aggressive and constant struggle to defend myself against the social and
political oppression and internalized violence of western society.
I wish to engage critics, philosophers, physicians, artists, somatic practitioners, and movers into a
conversation around the need for a rethinking of our bodies in motion and our attitude towards effort and
effortlessness, both practically and philosophically.
Freeing our minds from the burden of goal-driven approaches, embracing a more process oriented
methodology and ....
Issues around neurodiversity and able-ism enter the picture.
How do notions of neurotypicality play into the violence of physical education and could an opening
to a different way of moving, and to accepting movement as a viable method for thinking bring about
social change towards a more inclusive world?
People to engage with here are the Axis Syllabus/Frey Faust, Thomas Hannah/Hannah Somatics,
Moshe Feldenkrais, Ida Rolf, and other movers, bodyworkers, performers, and scientists.
Questions emerge around perception and the embodied experience which I will encounter through
engagement with authors such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Gilles Deleuze, and others.
Q: "How is effortlessness perceived, negotiated, and executed?"
In the area of philosophy Laotze and the Daoist concept of Wu Wei (often translated to 'effortless
action') and indigenous thinkers such as Robin Wall Kimmerer, Vanessa Watts, Kim Tallbear an others
are consulted. I am also drawing on western thinkers, such as Deleuze, Erin Manning and
others (need to refine these lists, assign thinkers to their specific areas...)
My thinking in this area evolves around the hypothesis that seeking effortlessness in movement is
always also related to finding effortless in life in general.

Q: "How are philosophy and movement practice interrelated and mutually informative?"
INTELLIGENCE
All in all I call my work "BII - The Body's Intrinsic Intelligence", which hints at my belief that the body
contains multiple inherent and expressive intelligences. These intelligences are to be examined and
applied in order to understand domination structures and to change our bodies and behaviors toward
greater gentleness and response-able ease.
I am working with terminology of oppression and regulation versus acceptance and responsiveness.
I am bringing a canon of thinkers and practitioners together in an imagined, hypothetical

conversation around how practice and politics relate to one another and how the principles
of effortlessness can enrich physical practice, education, personal, environmental, and political life.
Within the context of movement technique and social inter-affections I am seeing
the discussion around effort and effortlessness as central.
The non-verbal, unknown, the felt, the intuited

As an artist, I work with the non-verbal. I work with the feeling, the sense of something.
Effortlessness is such a thing for me. as the Daodejing says, "The Way that can be spoken, is not the
eternal way".
My words are approximations right now. When they indeed become truths or significations, I will let
you know.
Why study effort and effortlessness?
This inquiry came out of the desire to find a way of moving that represents the 'naturally' designed
ways of moving for the purpose of efficiency and longevity. A way of moving that does not abuse or
deteriorate the body, but preserve it and keep it functioning for as long as possible.
It came out of a desire to oppose the authoritarian regimes of dance education that subject dancers
to what I perceive to be masochistic ideals and encourage what I perceive to be sadistic practices.
It came out of a desire to learn to fly and express myself fully.

It came out of a deep need to stop fighting myself and mistreating myself and others.
It came out of a desire to find connection to the world around me and find belonging.
It came out of wanting many questions answered that related to how to dance, how to do things
correctly, how to become a dancer.
It came out of a desire to overcome fear.
It came out of working with the axis syllabus and changing approaches to movement that seemed
logical to the current mainstream attitudes towards dealing with the body, that seemed profoundly
erroneous in nature.
it came out of a desire to develop a vocabulary and teaching language that could address all, not
just dancers or specific groups.
It came out of a desire to understand the world.
it came out of a desire to understand myself.
It came out of a desire to become more empathetic, patient, and wise.
it came out of a desire to find inner peace.
THINKING & HOW CAN WE THINK

DIFFERENTLY
I think in ways that don't follow linearity. I think around, below, behind, in front, diagonally through. I
move, I feel, that's thinking. The complexity of the experience is hard to put into the clarity of
language.
I invite you to my thinking. It comes from intuition, feeling, a physical experience within the world, a
multitude of experiences at once, all together, shifting, complex. Playing with one another. It comes
from a heavy duty does of programming to love reason and logic; the western paradigm. I am trying
to change the way I think. What does it take to do that? By becoming aware of what thinking actually
is.
The body thinks. Everybody thinks. Since there are no things, I can not say that everything thinks.
Things don't think, but persons think. The tree is a person. The tree thinks. The tree expresses. Some

plants have humor. The hydra thinks, the kidney thinks. The machine thinks. Electrical devices think.
They make decisions. Organs think for me.
How can I come to grips with my inability to change the complexity of processes to something more
clear? Why would I have to? I get lost in details. I can only think about the 'things' that want to be
thought about. There is a time for everything. I can not force it. This is the process of art. Thinking is a
conversation. You wait for the wave to come and then you get on. Some waves take a long time to
form, some are short, some are long, some too massive to handle.
In the end there will be what you want, but the path there is different from what you imagine,
require, or think is necessary.
Mabel Todd titled her book "The Thinking Body". In the beginning she quotes (*1) William Butler
Yeats: "God guard me from thoughts men think in the mind alone. He that sings a lasting song thinks
in a marrow bone."
How does the body think according to Mabel Todd. Arguably, thinking does not take place in the
brain alone.
In the preface Todd talks about 'structural hygiene' and 'bodily economy', 'determination of form by
function as a law of organic development', ...
Todd states: "Relaxation is the crying need of our age, but what it is and how to attain it are still
unanswered questions. one must learn to recognize it and to deal with it in the stride of life and this
book explains ways of thinking about it which will introduce new methods in dealing with it. " (*2).
This expresses a mystery that is present in 1937 around notions of relaxation, not working, taking rest
and around efficiency of function: "... bodily balance in accord with the principles of mechanics is a
poignant means for conservation of nervous energy." (*2).
She is talking about a kind of effortlessness. (*1) Todd, Mabel: "The Thinking Body", preface; (*2) at
end of preface;
HOW DOES MOVING CHANGE

OUR THINKING?
I am furthermore interested in comparing various ways of thinking and moving and their correlations
to social and political practices. Who dances/moves how?
A strong correlation appears to be
between philosophies of movement and political, social, cultural landscapes. Violence and imbalance

are reflected in movement practices and the attitude towards one's own body and the body of
others.
I seek to examine whether the practice of finding alignment and effortlessness is a path for tuning in
to energies and ways of seeing the world that is more kin to ways of viewing the world that focuses
on those goals in ecologies of being and ecologies of nature.
Movement research is simultaneously an entry point into, as well as, a conclusion from efforts to
understand the world and to understand oneself.
I emprically collect definitions of the terms from friends, colleagues, and from students in my
effortlessness course.
I compare those empirical definitions of "effort" and "effortlessness" to those of critics and movers. I
look at methods of engaging with the terms and defining them in theoretical as well as applied,
and embodied ways.
TRANSCENDENTAL AND PRACTICE SPECIFIC

Hypothesis: Moving and engaging in movement (and other) listening practices will open the
practitioner up to a more empathetic and less judgmental way of viewing and engaging with the
world (human to human relationships, human-non-human relationships, understanding of subject
and object, aliveness and innateness). Movement practice therefore is a political act.
Hypothesis:
My hypothesis is that working with the body, as a body, as an actively experiencing, moving and

enacting body, offers the mover knowledge that can not be gotten any other way.
Could we say that our moving/dancing is an extension of our thinking? Thinking an extension of
dancing? one originating the other or each both mutually informing one another? To what degree
does our dancing affect our thinking?
Could a different way of dancing affect our thinking and socio-political environment/ecology? It
seems to be that way.
Hypothesis: understanding is dependent on an embodied learning process/moment. There has to be

some kind of experiential aspect that is similar to remembering incidents that happened to one. This
is similar to some notions of indigenous (native american, inuit?) ideas of storytelling, where stories
can only be retold when the teller has lived the story and has an actual, real-life connection to the
story and its meaning. This is substantially different from ideas of passing on knowledge, or re-
iterating concepts. (note: is this also related to moving within three-dimensional renderings of
imagined concepts as if they were real?)

How do I move?
What do I find in the wisdom of the body?
Is effortlessness the underlying 'law' of life? The path of least resistance...
What wisdoms do I find within the body by being a body and articulating such as the body desires to
do?
I investigate movement perception, methodology, pedagogy, and practice, as they relate to notions
of effortlessness and its practice.
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LIST
TOPICS:
ORIGIN STORIES
◦ Wall Kimmerer, Robin, "Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge,
and the Teachings of Plants", https://books.google.de/books?
hl=en&lr=&id=vmM9BAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=braiding+sweetgrass&ots=nhmfA
La6gR&sig=vF3CY_EmUFx3pjfuxBNbKNuDHjc&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=braiding
%20sweetgrass&f=false (pages 1-79)
abstract: Called the work of "a mesmerizing storyteller with deep compassion and
memorable prose" (Publishers Weekly) and the book that, "anyone interested in natural
history, botany, protecting nature, or Native American culture will love," by Library
Journal, Braiding Sweetgrass is poised to be a classic of nature writing. As a botanist,
Robin Wall Kimmerer asks questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of
the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces indigenous teachings that consider plants
and animals to be our oldest teachers. Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge
together to take “us on a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it
is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert). Drawing on her life as an indigenous

scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings offer us gifts
and lessons, even if we’ve forgotten how to hear their voices. note: alternative viewpoint
to being violent
the expression of effortlessness manifests in the reciprocity, in giving and receiving, and in
the belief that one is part of a larger life. That this life is intelligent and has spirit. That all
elements have equal value.
to deny this partnership/kinship is expressing as struggle and effort. To go against the
instructions of nature is making war to nature, war is effortful.
what are the differences in education between indigenous and western approaches:
wholistic, including the person and the relations, the emotion and the spirit.
to know the individual, not the category is important to the effort made to connect with
the body. Connect with your body on a basis of kinship, individual agency and familiarity,
will be less effortful than hypothesizing categories and concepts, that's my opinion
◦ video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dnS8c7ndRM
◦ "ROBIN KIMMERER: How to Nurture Your Soul through Indigenous Wisdom" interview

with R. Kimmerer: in video
@ 21:00 "... we grew up in the woods, we were always outside...when we were out in the
woods my father had his ritual every morning...he would make a gift back to the earth,
and that gift was the first coffee of the ground...
dad, a cultural orphan, knew to be grateful, he knew his original instructions, ...
gratitude... I knew that the land could teach me what my immediate family could not and
the strawberries were part of that, and the pines and the birds,...I knew that they were my
source of knowledge, and they were and they are."
@ 28:35: "Alligiance to gratitude"
@ 31:15: "the coming to know as individuals is so important, the tree that you mentioned
(the luisview elm) (note: I probably misspelled that) is a tree with a name"
◦ Wall Kimmerer, Robin, "Gathering Moss"
◦ Wall Kimmerer, Robin, "reclaiming the honorable

harvest", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz1vgfZ3etE&feature=emb_logo
forces of colonialism and assimilation...

in patowatomi language ... we speak of the whole world as if it was alive... the grammar of
animacy, and this goes back to settler colonialism and the loss in this way:... in english we
speak of one another with a particular grammar of respect but everything else, in english
except for humans, we call "it" we call that sugar maple "it" that salamandaer... that's
what english does, all our relatives are reduced to objects... so that when we speak we
recognize our kinship... this notion of the land, the land as living being, as a relative, when

you have to say it about it, it makes you lonesome....separating people from land...
turning land into commodity, into an object, the land was dead and we could do anything
we wanted to it...everyone has suffered from this imperialism.
paraphrasing:
anthropomorphism: it is disrespectful to expect that a maple sees the world the same way
we do, but this ends up being since they are not us, they are other, and therefore the are
less than us... David Apron's expression of the 'more than human' world.
anthropomorphising assumes that agency is only wrapped up in humanness, and in order
to talk about a thing as a living being it would mean to have to anthropomorphise them.
why are we so stupid? We just choose to keep these fucking blinders on.
◦ Tallbear, Kim, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkUeHCUrQ6E, video talk, Life (Un)Ltd

Lecture: Kim TallBear - Beyond Life/Not Life
◦ Tallbear. Kim,, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzVKVBgb4S4, video talk, science and

whiteness,
◦ Tallbear. Kim,, audio interview: https://www.multiamory.com/podcast/181-kim-tallbear,

Settler Sexuality,
◦ Tallbear. Kim,, video talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfdo2ujRUv8, "Making Love

and Relations Beyond Settler Sexualities"
◦ Tallbear. Kim, Disrupting life/not-life, video talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE-

gaDG-kLQ, (DOPE 2015 Keynote Address) note: Mostly used here to point out another
aspect of the same violent attitudes: colonization, and to argue with her about certain
aspects relating to the body.
◦ Winona LaDuke, Seeds The Creator gave Us, @ Bioneers
◦ Buckman, Alyson R; The Body as a Site of Colonization: Alice Walker's Possessing the
Secret of Joy" publishes in Journal of American Culture, Volume18, Issue2, Summer
1995, Pages 89-94 ,First published: Summer 1995, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1542-
734X.1995.00089.x
Citations: 1 have not been able to find the entire article, problems accesssing/logging in.
 Watts, Vanessa Watts, "Decolonization: Idigeneity, Education, & Society" Vol. 2, No.1, 2013, pp.
20-34 (in email from Anuj for 290 may 15, 2020), outlines and illustrates the foundational (from
creation story) difference between indigenous and euro-western thought, explaining agency,
spirit, respect, inter-relations between human-human, no-human-human, non-human-non-
human. Relationality between human and 'sky-woman become earth'. "This article attempts to
reaffirm this sacred connection between place, non-human and human in an effort to access the
"pre-colonial mind". Watts speaks of the "Place-Thought", "land becoming an extension of their
bodies (sky-woman and turtle). "Before continuing (to tell the creation story), I would like to

emphasize that these two events took place. They were not imagined or fantasized...." . Note
about my reaction: I was drawn to also conclude that splace thought not only imbues place with
thought but also that thought becomes place. It seems that imagination and connection to spirit
is real, that by a really long connection, theatre/the played/the imagined is real.
 Watts, Vanessa, "Indigenous place-thought & agency amongst humans and non-
humans (First Woman and Sky Woman go on a European world tour!)" Queen’s University,
Canada, https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des/article/view/19145, abstract: This paper
will examine how agency is circulated through human and non-human worlds in the creation and
maintenance of society from an Indigenous point of view. Through processes of colonization, the
corruption of essential categories of Indigenous conceptions of the world (the feminine and land)
has led to a disconnect between how this agency is manifested in society. Through a comparison
between the epistemological-ontological divide and an Indigenous conception of Place-Thought,
this paper will argue that agency becomes exclusive to humans, thereby removing non-human
agency out of what constitutes a society. It is in this limited space of human-only thought and
agency that colonial tactics of violence against Indigenous territory and Indigenous women are
most ripe. This is accomplished in part through mythologizing Indigenous origin stories and
separating out communication, treaty-making, historical agreements that human beings held
with the animal world, the sky world, the spirit world, etc. Thus, in order for colonialism to
operationalize itself, it must attempt to make Indigenous peoples stand in disbelief of themselves
and their histories. This paper will reaffirm this sacred connection between place, non-human
and human in an effort to access the “pre-colonial mind”. animism, different attitude, needs a
complete rethinking of the paradigm, epistemology,...reversal is not enough I am thinking of
indigenous ways of living/thinking (particularly as presented by Kimmerer, Watts, Tallbear) to be
more founded on ideas of effortlessness, as opposed to the western/colonial attitude of effort,
domination and colonization of 'natural resources' and the effort and the struggle needed by
man to assert diminion over the natural world. Western thought creates separate worlds to be in:
human world, natural world, animal kingdom, etc... Western ways are, generally speaking,
violent and disrespectful.
 Wall Kimmerer, Robin, "Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge,
and the Teachings of Plants", https://books.google.de/books?
hl=en&lr=&id=vmM9BAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=braiding+sweetgrass&ots=nhmfALa6
gR&sig=vF3CY_EmUFx3pjfuxBNbKNuDHjc&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=braiding
%20sweetgrass&f=false (pages 1-79)
abstract: Called the work of "a mesmerizing storyteller with deep compassion and memorable
prose" (Publishers Weekly) and the book that, "anyone interested in natural history, botany,
protecting nature, or Native American culture will love," by Library Journal, Braiding
Sweetgrass is poised to be a classic of nature writing. As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer asks
questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she
embraces indigenous teachings that consider plants and animals to be our oldest teachers.
Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take “us on a journey that is every bit
as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise” (Elizabeth Gilbert).
Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how

other living beings offer us gifts and lessons, even if we’ve forgotten how to hear their voices.
hands-on examples of another way pf knowing, being, thinking and engaging with one another
and the non-human world. (The fact that in our language i can determine another world entirely
from our own: the human world and the non-human world illustrates the need for a rethinking of
paradigms. I am addressing disconnect from self and thereby causing a disconnect from the
world, and vice versa. Looking at indigenous thought, ancient philosophy, religions, etc I am
seeking to identify the nature of the disconnect/disarticulation that causes harm and suffering. I
have the intro and first two chapters on laptop as pdf)

 Wall Kimmerer, Robin, video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dnS8c7ndRM "ROBIN

KIMMERER: How to Nurture Your Soul through Indigenous Wisdom" interview with R.
Kimmerer

 Wall Kimmerer, Robin, "Gathering Moss"

 Wall Kimmerer, Robin, "reclaiming the honorable
harvest", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz1vgfZ3etE&feature=emb_logo Kimmerer
offers many of the viewpoints I hold around decolonializign the world an our attitude towards a
hierarchical world view. I am hoping that her indigenous views as well as her scientific
background (which provided her an insight into the paradigm of the anthropocentric western
colonizer) will give insight and provide language around what articulation, alignment and kinship
ar.
◦ Cole, Peter , Coyote and Raven go Canoeing
◦ Feng, Alex, Dr.,
▪ "in your stillness, everything is revealed to you", "self inquiry, find your own path"
quote by Dr. Alex
Feng, https://www.facebook.com/TheTaoistCenter/videos/566691020503550/
 https://www.facebook.com/TheTaoistCenter/videos/329512694387037/ Dr. Feng video
 https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=329512694387037&ref=watch_permalink spoken
wisdom by Dr Feng
 Haraway, donna , Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science
 Maus, Marcel "Techniques of the Body", article I have from Kriss Ravetto, strict
compartmentalization of body componenets and functions, very "dissective"
 Merleau Ponty, Maurice, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCY-edDd4_g, video talk, by
Komarine Romdenh-Romluc: "Science in Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology"
 Merleau-Ponty, Maurice "Phenomenology of perception", (I have the pdf)

RECOVERING
 Hanna, Thomas Louis (Hannah Somatics) , "Somatics: Reawakening The Mind's Control Of
Movement, Flexibility, And Health" Building on the foundation laid by Moshe Feldenkrais,
Thomas Hanna's groundbreaking work completely redefines the body's potential for
withstanding decline. His gentle program for the mind and body proves once and for all that
so many problems we accept as inevitable over time -- chronic stiffness, bad back, chronic
pain, fatigue, and, at times, even high blood pressure -- need never occur if we maintain
conscious control of nerve and muscle, replacing Sensory-Motor Amnesia with Sensory-
Motor Awareness. The good news of Somatic Exercise is that most people simply do not
have to become captives of age or injury. Once learned, this lifelong program can help almost
anyone maintain the pleasures of a supple, healthy body indefinitely, with only a five-minute
routine once a day. Hannah, Thomas, Hannah Somatics
 Hanna, Thomas Louis (Hannah Somatics) , "Somatics: Reawakening The Mind's Control Of

Movement, Flexibility, And Health" Building on the foundation laid by Moshe Feldenkrais,
Thomas Hanna's groundbreaking work completely redefines the body's potential for
withstanding decline. His gentle program for the mind and body proves once and for all that
so many problems we accept as inevitable over time -- chronic stiffness, bad back, chronic
pain, fatigue, and, at times, even high blood pressure -- need never occur if we maintain
conscious control of nerve and muscle, replacing Sensory-Motor Amnesia with Sensory-Motor
Awareness. The good news of Somatic Exercise is that most people simply do not have to
become captives of age or injury. Once learned, this lifelong program can help almost anyone
maintain the pleasures of a supple, healthy body indefinitely, with only a five-minute routine
once a day.
 Lorde, Audre, "The Master's Tools..."
QUEERING
 Ahmed, Sarah, article:| Orientations: toward a queer phenomenology, GLQ: A Journal of
Lesbian and Gay Studies, 2006, 2007, Vol.12(4), p.543
 Paxton, Steve, "Gravity", Steve Paxton, 2018. Contredanse Editions, Brussels.
 Paxton, Steve, https://vimeo.com/403600420, swimming in gravity, lecture by steve paxton
RECLAIMING
◦ Davis, Heather "Decolonizing the Anthropocene" video talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7JxBCi72No&feature=youtu.be

◦ Freire, Paulo "Pedagogy of the Oppressed"

From: https://beautifultrouble.org/theory/pedagogy-of-the-oppressed/#:~:text=In%20short
%2C%20Pedagogy%20of%20the,of%20domination%20(see%20below).&text=Goal%20is
%20to%20adapt%20people,are%20treated%20as%20passive%20objects.: Over a lifetime
of work with revolutionary organizers and educators, radical educator Paulo Freire created
an approach to emancipatory education and a lens through which to understand systems of
oppression in order to transform them. He flipped mainstream pedagogy on its head by
insisting that true knowledge and expertise already exist within people. They need no
“deposits” of information (what Freire calls “banking education”), nor do they need leftist
propaganda to convince them of their problems. What is required to transform the world is
dialogue, critical questioning, love for humanity, and praxis, the synthesis of critical
reflection and action.
In short, Pedagogy of the Oppressed is education as a practice of freedom, which Freire
contrasts with education as a practice of domination (see below).
◦ Grof, Stanislav, Beyond the Brain: Birth, Death, and Transcendence in Psychology: Birth,
Death and Transcendence in Psychotherapy (Suny Series in Transpersonal and Humanistic
Psychology) Wir wissen mehr als unser Gehirn: Die Grenzen des Bewusstseins überschreiten
(HERDER spektrum), Wie sind Erzählungen von menschlichen Extremerfahrungen wie
Nahtoderlebnisse, Erinnerungen an frühere Leben oder außerkörperliche Erfahrungen zu
bewerten? Sind die Grenzen unseres Bewusstseins weiter als die unseres Gehirns? Eine
faszinierende Begegnung von Naturwissenschaft und Spiritualität. transpersonal psychology:
introducing spirituality into psychology. :
◦ youtube.com/watch?v=dswm2eCb-WE
◦ Jihoon, Kim, Intermedial essay films: “Memories-in-between”, from Anuj:

https://www.screenstudies.com/encyclopedia-chapter?docid=b-9781501304750&tocid=b-
9781501304750-chapter4 ;decolonizing the university ; decolonizing the body ; indigenous
thought
TOUCH
◦ Barad, Karen, youtube video, conference presentation, https://www.youtube.com/watch
karen barad and others I am looking at issues of touch and how the digital an the real touch.
How much of our fleshy nature is electronic, virtual, not as real as we think. th
electron as unexpecetd interlocutor
for touch.
Barad, questions around self and other, meeting and merging of identities in
the real-virtual encounter.
Important to me here is the idea of touch between light and flesh.

◦ Barad, Karen, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7LvXswjEBY
◦ Barad, Karen,, essay, v=u7LvXswjEBYhttps://read.dukeupress.edu/differences/article-
abstract/23/3/206/97723/On-Touching-the-Inhuman-That-Therefore-I-Am: This essay explores
the act of touching as it takes place in physical matter, in theorizing, and in the productive
spaces where the two are indistinguishable. First, the author considers how feminist theory
goes about touching science and unpacks touch as an act that reveals the self within the other
and the other within the self. The essay then offers a tutorial in quantum field theory to prepare
the reader for an unexpected interlocutor on the topic of touching: the electron. As Barad
demonstrates with descriptions of electrons and how they have troubled physicists to the point of
being “normalized” and called “immoral,” these particles resist normative notions of physical
contact; they are perverse. On the human scale, electrons trouble the notion of touch by making
it impossible to close the distance between atoms: the sense of touch paradoxically relies on
electric repulsion between neighboring objects. On the subatomic scale, each electron gleans its
energy from touching itself as if undergoing an exchange with another. Not only does the
presence of contact come from its absence but also the presence of electrons themselves relies on
a void holding their virtual counterparts. On every level, one can never reach the other--even
the other within oneself. This paradox on the micro scale that constitutes all macro-scale matter
calls into question the spatial and temporal fixity of identity. Barad shows that the notion of a
unified, autonomous self is problematic not just on the personal level but on the particle
level as well, and she responds to this deconstruction of matter with an ethics of response-
ability.
 Manning, Erin: Politics of Touch: Sense, Movement,
Sovereignty, https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttsxrz has the beginnings of each chapter.
Chapter 3. Erring toward Experience: Violence and Touch
(pp. 49-83) Might we conceive of touch as the original sin? In Genesis 3: 3 (all citations from King
James Version), God says to Adam and Eve: “But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the
garden . . . Ye shall not eat neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.” To eat the apple, to be seduced by
the snake, these are the obvious sins, the sins that condemn humanity forevermore to exist in a
fallen state. But what of touch? Why is touch—the moment of decision—forgotten, cast aside,
ignored? Is it not.. 5. Making Sense of the Incommensurable: Experiencing Democracy
(pp. 110-133) Brian Massumi writes: “The world does not exist outside of its expressions” (2002b,
xiii).¹ Expressions are not simply representations, descriptions, content-driven empirical
correspondences. Expressions cannot be reduced to external forces reacting upon a body.
Expressions are in and of the body, sensual and sensing: The force of expression . . . strikes the
body first, directly and unmediately. It passes transformatively through the flesh before being
instantiated in subject-positions subsumed by a system of power. Its immediate effect is a
differing. The body, fresh in the throes of expression, incarnates not an already-formed system
but a modification—a change. Expression... 6. Sensing beyond Security: What a Body Can Do (pp.
134-162) A politics of touch is a politics not of the particularity of touch as touch, but of touch as
the incorporeal experience of contact. How tactful is this politics? How is tact secured, politically,
within movement that reaches toward? What happens to a politics of touch when we associate
touch with tact? Whereas so far a politics of touch has been conceived as a movement that
expands the virtual toward potential, it would seem—if we associate touch with contact—that
touch is also implicated in a movement that is based on an interdiction not to touch. Tact

embodies this... Manning: I am not sure how relevant this book will be to this topic but I findManning
very sensitive and eprceptive to all kinds of unusual meetings and mergings, so her writing might
provide meaningful metaphors. She writes about touch and it might be important to consider the
actions and politics of touch when thinking about th virtual/flesh touch.
TENSEGRITY/FASCIA
 Escobar, Arturo, "Designs for Pluriverse", (from Alvaro) Description In Designs for the Pluriverse
Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design's
world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the
Earth. "title", web link, descriptive text, abstract, etc.
 Foster, Susan Leigh, Choreographing Empathy by Susan Leigh Foster
 Hick, Alexander, "Thinking like a Mountain", film, https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=6vvjzROQBSA
 Lorde, Audre "There is no Hierarchy of Oppression"
 Kohn, Eduardo, How Forests Think (Ch 2 The Living Thought) by
 Laermans, Rudi, 'moving together', (part 1), ('social choreographies of Collaboration') around p.

338
 O'Conor, Kevin, "Moving and Thinking with Fascia" https://contactquarterly.com/cq/article-

gallery/view/moving-and-thinking-with-fascia.pdf (I have the pdf on my laptop)
 Hunter, Lynette "Moving Like Water"
IMPROVISATION
 Egert (Herausgeber), Holger Hartung (Herausgeber) https://www.amazon.de/Movements-
Interweaving-Corporeality-Migration-Performance/dp/0815356234/ref=sr_1_76?
dchild=1&qid=1589954328&refinements=p_27%3AGabriele+Brandstetter&s=books&sr=1-
76&text=Gabriele+Brandstetter, link to 'look in book' on amazon, shorter chapters about/by
various artists article "Improvisieren. Paradowien des Unvorhersehbaren. Kunst-Medien-Praxis",
"Dance and Theory",
 Deleuze, "Difference and Repetition", Deleuze: Francis Bacon, The Logic of Sensation, Chapters
1 and 2 of Deleuze “Difference and Repetition”
 Davidson, Arnold; Lewis, George and Davidson, Arnold 'improvisation as a way of life',
video, Arnold Davidson “Improvisation as Ethical Form”, video
 Kindler, Alan, Spontaneity and Improvisation in Psychoanalysis' Alan M.B.B.S. Published in
Psychoanalytic Inquiry, May 13, 2010, ISSN: 0735-1690 print/1940-9133
online, DOI:10.1080/0735169090326181

 Louis, Renee Pualani , Kanaka Hawai’I Cartography: Hula, Navigation, and Oratory. Oregon State
University Press, 2017.
EFFORT
◦ Dumit, Joe, Sitting Academic Style.
◦ James, William, 1969, "The Feeling of Effort" in collected essays and reviews, New York:
rusell and Russell
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EFFORTLESSNESS
◦ ALIGNMENT
▪ Faust, Frey, Axis Syllabus, Frey Faust, “the Axis Syllabus – Human Movement Analysis
and Training Method”, 3rd edition 2011 (looking for most updated
▪ Faust,
Frey, interview: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3zCJmHMSpCTS7NiyvVWOcQ?
si=dLDL0LYuSTyrSUd1_xHANw
▪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Jy-UcRGh4
▪ Faust, Frey, class observations Doesn't believe in effortlessness, there is pleasant and

unpleasant effort...
▪ Lepecki, Andre, "of the presence of the body', (Ontology 'events'), (part 3), “Singularities”
◦ WU WEI
▪ Daodejing: side by side comparison of English
translations: https://ttc.tasuki.org/display:Code:gff,sm,jhmd,jc,rh
▪ DaodejingStephen Mitchell: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2e0g0v translator
of Daodejing
▪ DaodejingDaodejing S. Mitchell translation, audio, read by S. Mitchell,
youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2UYch2JnO4
▪ Daodejing, Daodejing, Ursula Le Guin tanslation (I have the pdf)
 Daodejing, https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/10/21/lao-tzu-tao-te-ching-ursula-k-le-guin/ A
bout Ursula Le Guin, her talking about the Tao Te Ching

 Daodejing Daodejing: side by side comparison of English

translations: https://ttc.tasuki.org/display:Code:gff,sm,jhmd,jc,rh
 DaodejingStephen Mitchell: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2e0g0v translator of
Daodejing
 DaodejingDaodejing S. Mitchell translation, audio, read by S. Mitchell,

youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2UYch2JnO4
 Daodejing, Daodejing, Ursula Le Guin tanslation (I have the pdf)
 Daodejing, https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/10/21/lao-tzu-tao-te-ching-ursula-k-le-guin/ A
bout Ursula Le Guin, her talking about the Tao Te Ching
 Eiko & Koma, seals on the beach, you don't have to do anything or produce anything to live, to
exist, "fulfill your duty" as a being on earth
 Watts, Alan Watts, wu wei, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzaUGhhnlQ8
 Slingerland, Edward G, Effortless action Wu-wei as conceptual metaphor and spiritual ideal

in early China, Slingerland, Edward G. (Edward
Gilman), 2003, https://search.library.ucdavis.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?
docid=01UCD_ALMA51351706100003126&context=L&vid=01UCD_V1&lang=en_US&search_
scope=everything_scope&adaptor=Local%20Search
%20Engine&tab=default_tab&query=any,contains,effortlessness&mode=Basic
BECOMING - HOW CAN WE THINK

DIFFERENTLY?
 Rotmann, Bryan ,last two chapters of “Becoming Beside Ourselves”, kindle version preview at :
https://books.google.de/books/about/Becoming_Beside_Ourselves.html?
id=KJOoQuSr6K4C&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y#v=one
page&q&f=false
 Rothfield, Philipa, "Beyond Habit, The Cultivation of Corporeal Difference"

https://www.sdu.dk/-/media/files/om_sdu/institutter/iob/forskningsenheder/bevaegelseidraetsam
fund/bodies-forces-and-thinking-in-dance.pdf?
la=da&hash=34214214FF170053C7C2DC3E3A348263E3678520 Abstract: One of the initial
research questions I posed during the PhD (2008-14) at DOCH/Uniarts (Stockholm, Sweden)
concerned the relation between dance technique and choreography. One of the outcomes of the
research came to involve a consideration of dance technique as a form of subjectivation – a

technique of self. This self then points towards the body image that gets represented on stage. I
came to ask myself if dance would be ready to think (or imagine or represent) a different body. A
body that affirms its material existence instead of emphasizing it symbolic existence. A body that
auto-expresses instead of a body instrumentalized for a self-expression. In this presentation I will
extend on this subject, drawing a line through the 6 different works made during the research.
Bio: After an international career as dancer Rasmus Ölme formed, in 2001, REFUG-collective
under which he produced and toured several works. After finishing his PhD in choreography at
DOCH/Uniarts (SE) he worked as a senior lecturer at DOCH until 2015 when he took the direction
of the education in Dance and Choreography at the Danish National School of Performing Arts.
 Stiegler,Phylogenese: Phylogenese (from https://www.biologie-
seite.de/Biologie/Phylogenese) (altgr. φῦλον phýlon ‚Stamm‘ und γένεσις génesis ‚Ursprung‘)
bezeichnet sowohl die stammesgeschichtliche Entwicklung der Gesamtheit aller Lebewesen als
auch bestimmter Verwandtschaftsgruppen auf allen Ebenen der biologischen Systematik. Der
Begriff wird auch verwendet, um die Evolution einzelner Merkmale im Verlauf der
Entwicklungsgeschichte zu charakterisieren. Der Gegenpol zur Phylogenese ist die Ontogenese, die
Entwicklung der einzelnen Individuen einer Art. Stiegler falls in a group with Sobachack, Portanova
and Kwastek and others in defining th vrtual real encounter and the blurring of the lines between the
two. Stiegler goes as far as proclaiming an "exteriorization: a pursuit of life through non-biological
means"
I wrote about Stiegler in reference to my work: Technology gives form to our imagination. With
the concept of Epiphylogenesis Stiegler marks a break with biological evolution. He notes a process
of exteriorization; a pursuit of life through non-biological means. Film, video, animation, music, all
are expressions and extensions of our imagination. Virtual reality seems to be the current most
extreme incarnation of embodied imagination and of course the development of technological
implants, such as microchips and other devices that augment and enhance biological functions.
 Thompson, Evan; Waking, Dreaming, Being: Self and Consciousness in Neuroscience,
Meditation, and
Philosophy, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00O0G161C/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vpp
i_i2
 Thompson, Evan, various youtube talks
 Thompson, Evan, "The Embodied Mind", "Thinking Body"
 Barrett, Louise, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSB80T77VVY&t=0s Louise barrett, think

like an animal, how we think abut animals an think more like and animal. How can we think
differently
 Barrett, Louise, BEYOND THE BRAIN Paperback – 20 Mar. 2015 When a chimpanzee stockpiles

rocks as weapons or when a frog sends out mating calls, we might easily assume these animals
know their own motivations--that they use the same psychological mechanisms that we do. But
as Beyond the Brain indicates, this is a dangerous assumption because animals have different
evolutionary trajectories, ecological niches, and physical attributes. How do these differences
influence animal thinking and behavior? Removing our human-centered spectacles, Louise
Barrett investigates the mind and brain and offers an alternative approach for understanding

animal and human cognition. Drawing on examples from animal behavior, comparative
psychology, robotics, artificial life, developmental psychology, and cognitive science, Barrett
provides remarkable new insights into how animals and humans depend on their bodies and
environment--not just their brains--to behave intelligently

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RECLAIMING, QUEERING, RECOVERING

Q: .....
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 Mindfulness, Bodyfulness, Chi Gong, Sensory tracking, Somatics, Caldwell talks about this,
introducing other ways of thinking... not sure which book or chapter, which author
 Todd, Mabel Elsworth. The Thinking Body; a Study of the Balancing Forces of Dynamic
Man. Brooklyn: Dance Horizons, 1968. Print.

 HAY, dEBORAH interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3J8x7Jn6Rs
 HAY, dEBORAH interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5SYVDPpxUI
 HAY, dEBORAH, Deborah Hay: interview with her dancers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=sZyVWXH969s
 HAY, dEBORAH, My Body the Buddhist by Deborah
A
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How drawing helps you think | Ralph Ammer | TEDxTUM" on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=ZqlTSCvP-Z0&feature=youtu.be
B
Bainbridge Cohen, Bonnie "Sensing, Feeling and Action: The Experiential Anatomy of Body-Mind
Centering", https://www.amazon.com/Sensing-Feeling-Action-Experiential-Body-
Mind/dp/0937645036
Bernard, Andre & Steinmueller, Wolfgang, Ideokinesis: A creative approach to human
movement and Body Alignment"
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Bannon Palgrave, Fiona, Considering Ethics in Dance, Theatre and
Performance, https://academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics/article-abstract/60/1/102/5514176, Palgrave
Macmillan. 2018The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 60, Issue 1, January 2020, Pages 102–

105, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayz017Published: 12 June 2019 In this genuine, beautiful and lucid

book, Fiona Bannon deals with the practice of joint authorship in dance, theatre and performance as an
activity that interweaves aesthetic perceptual processes with an ethical practice of living an examined life
in relation to others. Bannon is the chair of DanceHE— a UK-wide network promoting dance in higher
education—and she previously worked in performance arts. In the book, her engagement in performance
and in education is woven into a clear pedagogical vision that has implications for philosophy. The explicit
goal here is to articulate the ethos within the practice of making collaborative performance works and,...
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Barthes, “music, image, text”
Bausch, Pina, Rite of Spring excerpt of red dress solo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=0VqaGkKQRCU, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f04Tk1pqQok&feature=youtu.be Says that
everything in dance/theatre counts and that everything speaks. Bausch Often spoke of dance and theatre
as a language that needs to be handled with great care and sensitivity
Bausch, Pina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7pV2cX0qxs&has_verified=1 (sacrificial dance)
Bausch, Pina, http://www.pina-bausch.de/en/communicating-dance/searching-finding/

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Bausch, Pina, Rite of Spring excerpt of red dress solo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=0VqaGkKQRCU, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f04Tk1pqQok&feature=youtu.be
Says that everything in dance/theatre counts and that everything speaks
Bausch Often spoke of dance and theatre as a language that needs to be handled with great care and
sensitivity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7pV2cX0qxs&has_verified=1 (sacrificial dance)
http://www.pina-bausch.de/en/communicating-dance/searching-finding/
Bel, Jerome,the last performance, talk on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFFjxEJrhFU
Bourdieu, , “Theory of Habitus” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvzahvBpd_A, intro video



Bel, Jerome, the last performance, on repetition, on the new in the perceived old, goes along with
Deleuze Difference and repetition
Bibeau, Gilles, review/opinion on Michael Tossig/Mimsesis and
Alterity: https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1525/ae.1995.22.3.02a00220, by Gilles
Bibeau, in "Anthro Source Journal", I have the pdf
Bourdieu, “Theory of Habitus”
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Brecht, Berthold,“essay on the gesture” , ueber theater
packer: all works take place in the virtual projection world...I saw their performance at UNC Wilmington,
met them, visited their studio in upstate New York, they work mostly with projected environments, and I
could probably do an interview with them.
Birringer, Johannes, 2008 Performance, Technology, and Science (New York: PAJ Publications). from
wikipedia: (* 30. November 1953 in Schmelz, Saarland) ist ein
freischaffender Regisseur, Choreograf und Videokünstler.This groundbreaking work of scholarship explores
convergences between performance and science through an investigation of new technologies that drive
computer-mediated, interactive art. Wide-ranging and richly illustrated essays uncover shifts that have
occurred globally in the aesthetic understanding of performance within computer-augmented virtual and
networked environments.
Boyden, Joseph, Orenda (L: "You might read Joseph Boyden, The Orenda, for a first peoples account
of 'violence' in early indigenous history ie after 17th century.
or anything by Eden Robinson for modern takes on violence imposed on first peoples lives
I think you'd get a better picture from these because they depict violence, esp The Orenda, and you
can work out what you think."
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Bulwer, John
C
Caldwell, Christine, and Leighton, Bennett, "Oppression and the Body - Roots, Resistance, Resolutions",
https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Christine-Caldwell-ebook/dp/B0738LQGCR, A timely anthology that
explores power, privilege, and oppression and their relationship to marginalized bodies Asserting that the
body is the main site of oppression in Western society, the contributors to this pioneering volume explore
the complex issue of embodiment and how it relates to social inclusion and marginalization. In a culture
where bodies of people who are brown, black, female, transgender, disabled, fat, or queer are often
shamed, sexualized, ignored, and oppressed, what does it mean to live in a marginalized body? Through

theory, personal narrative, and artistic expression, this anthology explores how power, privilege,
oppression, and attempted disembodiment play out on the bodies of disparaged individuals and what
happens when the body’s expression is stereotyped and stunted. Bringing together a range of voices, this
book offers strategies and practices for embodiment and activism and considers what it means to be an
embodied ally to anyone experiencing bodily oppression. useful in effortlessness as well.
Investigating a disconnect from body and expression/communication through the body. The body as a site for
intuitive connection to knowledge for subversion/art/social critique.
investigating connections between western physical expression or fitness methods and politics of oppression.
Interested in the reasons for the lack of understanding for kinaesthetic language/communication in western
society.
Caldwell, Christine, and Leighton, Bennett, "Oppression and the Body - Roots, Resistance,
Resolutions", https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Christine-Caldwell-ebook/dp/B0738LQGCR, A timely
anthology that explores power, privilege, and oppression and their relationship to marginalized
bodies Asserting that the body is the main site of oppression in Western society, the contributors to
this pioneering volume explore the complex issue of embodiment and how it relates to social
inclusion and marginalization. In a culture where bodies of people who are brown, black, female,
transgender, disabled, fat, or queer are often shamed, sexualized, ignored, and oppressed, what does
it mean to live in a marginalized body? Through theory, personal narrative, and artistic expression,
this anthology explores how power, privilege, oppression, and attempted disembodiment play out on
the bodies of disparaged individuals and what happens when the body’s expression is stereotyped
and stunted. Bringing together a range of voices, this book offers strategies and practices for
embodiment and activism and considers what it means to be an embodied ally to anyone
experiencing bodily oppression.
Investigating a disconnect from body and expression/communication through the body. The body as a
site for intuitive connection to knowledge for subversion/art/social critique.
investigating connections between western physical expression or fitness methods and politics of
oppression.
Campbell, Michelle M., "Anarchism and the Body", Article (I have the pdf)
Carson, Quetzala, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN17Os8JAr8&feature=youtu.be
youtube talk by Quetzala Carson
Pedagogy of the Decolonizing | Quetzala Carson | TEDxUAlberta
Chomsky, Noam, various talks, lectures, interviews on youtube
Carmen, "embodying transgression)
Cassiers, Guy & Bagnoli, Enrico scenic designers, use of projections, https://www.opera-
online.com/de/columns/helmutpitsch/saisonauftakt-in-berlin-die-derniere-des-cassiers-ring
 Cassiers, Guy & Bagnoli, Enrico
https://www.haz.de/Nachrichten/Kultur/Uebersicht/Wagners-moderner-Siegfried-in-
Berlin-gefeiert
Cassiers, Guy & Bagnoli, Enrico http://www.khroma.eu/images/Ring/Rheingold/index.html
Castaneda, Carlos Castaneda, 'the teachings of Don Juan' and other books

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Condo, George, interview "How I think": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhRdlVcQnjk
Cooper Albright, Anne, "Taken By Surprise (Dwelling in Possibility) " by Ann Cooper Albright, a Dance
Improvisation Reader
Csordas, Thomas J., Somatic Modes of Attention'
D
Daly, Ann,"The Balanchine Woman, of hummingbirds and channel swimmers"
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Davidson, Richard J., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CBfCW67xT8, "How mindfulness
changes the emotional life of our brains", | Richard J. Davidson | TEDxSanFrancisco, distractability,
ADD, attention deficit, loneliness, early mortality due to loneliness more than due to obesity, negative
self-talk, negative beliefs culminate in depression (serious problem, on the rise), train mind and harness
the power of neuroplasticity to change these qualities, suicide rates are up since 2000 a steep rise (more
than doubling over the last ten years), pervasive loss of meaning (exacts a toll on our health and
wellbeing). 4 pillars: 1) awareness (focus attention, resist distraction, quality that is called meta-
awareness: knowing what our minds are doing 2) connection: refers to qualities which nurture
harmoneous interpersonal, kindness 3) insight: about insight into the narrative that we have about
ourselves, holding negative narratives a true description of who they are, changing our relationship to
the narrative, a constellation of thoughts: we can see it as that and we can foster more breathing room
and increase wellbeing 4) purpose: sense that our life is headed a particular direction, belonging, living
life so that taking out the garbage and doing the laundry is still related to your sense of purpose. training
your mind. Declarative learning: learning about something: learning about honesty doesn't make you an
honest person. We need procedural learning: operate through totally different kinds of brain circuits.
Neuroplasticity. we can change our brain. Compassion training. Systematic difference after only 7 hrs of
practice. With systematic practice they can endure. 3 Minutes a day! 1 minute practice: sit, bring a loved
one into your mind and your heart, cultivate the strong aspiration that they be happy, healthy and free
of suffering, invision a time where they may have had difficulty, say in your mind "may you be happy,
may your be free of suffering", then do this for a difficult person.
Deleuze, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUQTYlCTfek&t=23s, video about Deleuze,
philosopher of difference, by THEN & NOW
Deleuze, , Deleuze; “the logic of sense” chapter on phantasm, chapter on series of singularities
(read alongside with Lepecki)
Deleuze, add shorter essays, understanding deleuze,
De la Cadena, Marisol, "Earthbeings": ... Marisol De la Cadena (Isa is reading it right now and really likes
it, thinks it would be helpful to me. She says really useful things about translation. Isa summarizes: "the

word that describes the thing is not different than the word, then saying the word evokes the thing. ... the
indigenous language and the spanish: p.vvxxv of introduction... in relation to Foucault,... what's lost in
translation is the earthbeing itself...can not put words and things back together,... p.30 Isa repeated that
my knowledge system isn't words at all. I could name it but that's different. )
Deleuze, Gilles, "Difference and Repetition", can not find pdf "
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• Deleuze lectures videos
• Deleuze, 'cinema 1' and 'anti oedipus' and 'A thousand plateaus',
and 'what is philosophy' (last book he wrote with guattari)
Gilles Deleuze, “expressionism in philosophy: Spinoza'
introduction, p. 13-22
Gilles Deleuze, “expressionism in philosophy: Spinoza' (what can
the body do?)
• Gilles Deleuze, “The Fold”
Deleuze/Foucault, discussion between deleuze and foucault “intellectuals and power:
a conversation between Michel Foucault and Gilles DELEUZE', “the logic of sense” chapter on phantasm,
chapter on
series of singularities (read alongside with Lepecki)
Deleuze, add shorter articles for understanding Deleuze
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Dolar, Mladen, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPsoqKiR1i0, Mladen Dolar. Philosophy and
Theater. 2017, European graduate School Video lectures
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Feldenkrais, Moshe,"Feldenkrais, Bewusstheit durch Bewegung", Suhrkamp Taschenbuch,

feeling effort
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Foucault, Michel, “theatrum philosophicum”
Foucault, M., 1979.Foucault, M., 1978. The history of sexuality (1st. American ed. New York, NY:
Pantheon Books.
Foucault, M., 1979. Discipline and punish: the birth of the prison [Surveiller et punir.]. 2nd ed.
New York, NY: Vintage Books.
Foucault, M., 1979.Michel Ffoucault, “theatrum philosophicum”
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Gagliano, Monica, Thus Spoke the Plant: A Remarkable Journey of Groundbreaking Scientific
Discoveries and Personal Encounters with Plants... An accessible and compelling story of a scientist's
discovery of plant communication and how it influenced her research and changed her life.
In this "phytobiography" - a collection of stories written in partnership with a plant - research scientist
Monica Gagliano reveals the dynamic role plants play in genuine firsthand accounts from her research into
plant communication and cognition. By transcending the view of plants as the objects of scientific
materialism, Gagliano encourages us to rethink plants as people - beings with subjectivity, consciousness,
and volition, and hence having the capacity for their own perspectives and voices. The audiobook draws on
up-close-and-personal encounters with the plants themselves, as well as plant shamans, indigenous elders,
and mystics from around the world and integrates these experiences with an incredible research journey and
the groundbreaking scientific discoveries that emerged from it.
Gagliano has published numerous peer-reviewed scientific papers on how plants have a Pavlov-like response
to stimuli and can learn, remember, and communicate to neighboring plants. She has pioneered the brand-
new research field of plant bioacoustics, for the first time experimentally demonstrating that plants emit
their own "voices" and, moreover, detect and respond to the sounds of their environments. By demonstrating
experimentally that learning is not the exclusive province of animals, Gagliano has reignited the discourse on
plant subjectivity and ethical and legal standing. This is the story of how she made those discoveries and how
the plants helped her along the way. Here I am looking at sensitivities towards non-human expression and

the states of mind and the willingness to approach different ways of knowing and respecting the world.
I am hoping to find some viewpoints from the stance of the scientist and what it took for her to change into a
more sensitive, differently listening, differently attuned being. She talks about her mindset and
scrupulousness in killing experiment subjects (fish) she had a relationship of trust and play, and nevertheless
the psychology of the objective observer allowed/facilitated a justification for killing, for de-
humanizing/disrespecting the subject.
Why does the western world need scientific justification to show respect?
Why does the western scientist need to discover facts from the outside and is not willing to listen to wisdom
from within?
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Gregory, Jason https://jasongregory.org/category/enlightenment-today/
Gryzanovski, E, Arthur Schopenhauer and His Pessimistic Philosophy, jstor, article,
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/25109759.pdf
Guillem, Sylvie , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsXXycSjgcs, part
2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4lizDvvZr
gesture 18th Century
gesture, greek
Giordano, Cristiana, "Migrants in translation", Cristiana , book, I have the pdf
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Grosz, Elizabeth,
Sexual Subersions, chapter on Lacan and Psychoanalysis, "Similarly, in linguistics one does not compare
one word in a language to its equivalent in another without understanding the ways in which each
language functions as an entire system." (p.11) https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Elizabeth-
Grosz/dp/0043510728
Guattari, Felix, "The machinic unconscious", An early work that lays the foundation for establishing a
“polemical” dimension to psychoanalysis.We certainly have the unconscious that we deserve, an
unconscious for specialists, ready-made for an institutionalized discourse. I would rather see it as
something that wraps itself around us in everyday objects, something that is involved with day-to-day
problems, with the world outside. It would be the possible itself, open to the socius, to the cosmos...—
from The Machinic Unconscious: Essays in Schizoanalysis.... In his seminal solo-authored work The
Machinic Unconscious (originally published in French in 1979), Félix Guattari lays the groundwork for a
general pragmatics capable of resisting the semiotic enslavement of subjectivity. Concluding that
psychoanalytic theory had become part and parcel of a repressive, capitalist social order, Guattari here
outlines a schizoanalytic theory to undo its capitalist structure and set the discipline back on its feet.
Combining theoretical research from fields as diverse as cybernetics, semiotics, ethnology, and ethology,
Guattari reintroduces into psychoanalysis a “polemical” dimension, at once transhuman, transsexual, and
transcosmic, that brings out the social and political—the “machinic”—potential of the unconscious. To
illustrate his theory, Guattari turns to literature and analyzes the various modes of subjectivization and

semiotization at work in Proust's In Search of Lost Time, examining the novel as if he were undertaking a
scientific exploration in the style of Freud or Newton. Casting Proust's figures as abstract (“hyper-
deterritorialized”) mental objects, Guattari maps the separation between literature and science,
elaborating along the way such major Deleuze-Guattarian concepts as “faciality” and “refrain,” which
would be unpacked in their subsequent A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Never before
available in English, The Machinic Unconscious has for too long been the missing chapter from Deleuze
and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus project: the most important political extension of May 1968 and one of the
most important philosophical contributions of the twentieth century.
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HAY, dEBORAH, My Body the Buddhist by Deborah Hay
Hay, Deborah; Deborah Hay: interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3J8x7Jn6Rs doesn't
approach it as an intentional narrative, but she knows when the dance is over (I understand the universe
that is clear to me, I can't put it in linear form, I just know that this is a little universe in itself")
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HAY, dEBORAH interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3J8x7Jn6Rs
HAY, dEBORAH interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5SYVDPpxUI
HAY, dEBORAH, Deborah Hay: interview with her dancers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=sZyVWXH969s
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 Kulchyski , Peter , Like the Sound of a Drum
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Lacan, "Anamorphosis" chapter 7 on the gaze.
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Lev, Ilan, Ilan Lev Method, videos, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B54pbnjVr_I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CXgXyWz_Os
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Luettringhaus, Karola (about Bausch's solo in 'Rite of Spring') explosion of feelings comes out of a
complete emptying, going to stillness and personal, collective trauma and truth. stops of terror, frozen,

immobilized, can't help but follow into the footsteps of those that have gone before her, a constant
opening and zipping back up of her innermost self, speaking from and covering her heart, exhausted, in
the end surrounded by society self regulating, self harming, pushing herself on, through repetition into a
trance beyond being present, asking for help, for support and not receiving anything but a solid wall of
non-action,
Luettringhaus: I have used technology and particualrly projections a lot, and i am interested in analyzing
these choices and the meaning behind the meetings of teh real and virtual beiengs/spaces. Typically thy
serve a dual purpose: they allow me to portray somethign that takes place in an imagned realm or temorally
displaced, or shows emotional sttes and relationalities, and thre is also a comment on our times within the
use of these, although, not always intentional, which in hindsight worries me and makes me aware of how
we, other choreographers, jsut jump at "cool" things without thinking about the implications. I know that
thre is a lot of critique hidden within my use of technologies. I certinly have a lot of misgivings about the use
of technologies and the demand to be innovative for reasons of becoming eligible for grants and funding. So
there is a certain social/political pressure to 'get with the times' and conform to the use of technologies or lest
be left behind...ignored, forgotten, outdated... The further this went on, the more I becamse interested in
insisting on the real live performance experience. But it is extremely hard to remain analog and "real".
Luettringhaus, Karola290 writing: Estados de Vulnerabilidad (about not expressing)
Luettringhaus, Karolavarious 290 writings/performance analyses
Luettringhaus, KarolaHippolyta's Disappearance (own work)
Luettringhaus, Karolastillicidium (own work) tension: karola: an implied connection between two or

more actors
Luettringhaus, Karolatension: what is this work holding and what is able to be released
Luettringhaus, Karoladuet from Inertia (own work), vvita5 (own work)
Luettringhaus, KarolaAusdruckstanz
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Magee, Lena Rose, notes from reharsal, notes from interviews, zoom meetings,e tc. and
performance/reheasral work
Manning, Susan, The Minor gesture

Mate, Gabor, body language choreographic process meaning of movements gesture/non-gesture

intuition gut feeling?
Means, Russell, https://youtu.be/IZY7FWVTbR8
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Manning, Erin, Manning, E. (2012) Always More Than One: Individuations’s dance. Durham and
London:
Duke University Press.
 Chapter 1, “Toward a Leaky Sense of Self”
 Chapter 2, “Always More Than One” "Leaky Sense of Self"
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Manning, Erin; "Thought in the Act",
 Every practice is a mode of thought, already in the act. To dance: a thinking in movement.
To paint: a thinking through color. To perceive in the everyday: a thinking of the world’s
varied ways of affording itself.” —from Thought in the Act
Combining philosophy and aesthetics, Thought in the Act is a unique exploration of

creative practice as a form of thinking. Challenging the common opposition between the
conceptual and the aesthetic, Erin Manning and Brian Massumi “think through” a wide
range of creative practices in the process of their making, revealing how thinking and
artfulness are intimately, creatively, and inseparably intertwined. They rediscover this
intertwining at the heart of everyday perception and investigate its potential for new
forms of activism at the crossroads of politics and art.
Emerging from active collaborations, the book analyzes the experiential work of the
architects and conceptual artists Arakawa and Gins, the improvisational choreographic
techniques of William Forsythe, the recent painting practice of Bracha Ettinger, as well as
autistic writers’ self-descriptions of their perceptual world and the experimental event
making of the SenseLab collective. Drawing from the idiosyncratic vocabularies of each
creative practice, and building on the vocabulary of process philosophy, the book
reactivates rather than merely describes the artistic processes it examines. The result is a
thinking-with and a writing-in-collaboration-with these processes and a demonstration of
how philosophy co-composes with the act in the making. Thought in the Act enacts a
collaborative mode of thinking in the act at the intersection of art, philosophy, and
politics.
 Erin Manning "Thought in the Act" Scene Design, Erin Manning on the neurotypical etc
creative processes altered states of mind,

 Manning, E. (2012) Always More Than One: Individuations’s dance. Durham and London:
Duke University Press.
 Chapter 1, “Toward a Leaky Sense of Self”
 Chapter 2, “Always More Than One”
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Mate, Gabor,
 body language choreographic process meaning of movements gesture/non-gesture

intuition gut feeling?
Means, Russell, 'If You've Forgotten the Names of Clouds, You've Lost Your Way: An Introduction to
American Indian Thought and Philosophy' Paperback – 14 Feb. 2013
by Russell Means (Autor, Illustrator), Bayard Johnson (Autor)
Means, Russell, "WHERE WHITE MEN FEAR TO TREAD: The Autobiography of Russell Means" Paperback
– 1 Dec. 1996, available as audio book
Melzer Derek,
 "The Act of Thinking" Derek melzer, In this remarkable monograph, Derek Melser argues
that the core assumption of both folk psychology and cognitive science—that thinking
goes on in the head—is mistaken. Melser argues that thinking is not an intracranial process
of any kind, mental or neural, but is rather a learned action of the
person. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/act-thinking
McFee, Graham, "The philosophical aesthetics of Dance - Identity, Performance and Understanding",
Graham McFee
Moten, Fred, The undercommons...
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Nadj, Josef: projection in the piece I saw?? movement theatre, https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=rhUWkEqYPt0&t=707s, http://josefnadj.com/il-ny-a-plus-de-firmament/?lang=en
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Novack, C.,1993. Ballet, gender and cultural power. In: H. Thomas, ed. Dance, gender and power.
London: MacMillan, 34–48.
Alva Noe making art is a practice of engaging philosophically.

Noë, Alva, Alva Noe talks about the "emancipatory value of art,... art reorganizes us,... liberates us" "I
dare you to see me" "I dare you to bring me into focus" "See me, if you can".
Noe, Alva, "Out of our heads: You are not your brain", Alva Noë is one of a new breed—part
philosopher, part cognitive scientist, part neuroscientist—who are radically altering the study of
consciousness by asking difficult questions and pointing out obvious flaws in the current science. In Out
of Our Heads, he restates and reexamines the problem of consciousness, and then proposes a startling
solution: do away with the two-hundred-year-old paradigm that places consciousness within the
confines of the brain.Our culture is obsessed with the brain—how it perceives; how it remembers; how it
determines our intelligence, our morality, our likes and our dislikes. It’s widely believed that
consciousness itself, that Holy Grail of science and philosophy, will soon be given a neural explanation.
And yet, after decades of research, only one proposition about how the brain makes us conscious—how
it gives rise to sensation, feeling, and subjectivity—has emerged unchallenged: we don’t have a clue.
In this inventive work, Noë suggests that rather than being something that happens inside us,
consciousness is something we do. Debunking an outmoded philosophy that holds the scientific study of
consciousness captive, Out of Our Heads is a fresh attempt at understanding our minds and how we
interact with the world around us.
Noe, Alva, Strange Tools
Noe, Alva, Action in Perception
Noe, Alva, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoOHWHEJOLU Alva Noe, "You are not your brain"
talk
Noe, Alva, "Strange Tools" Noë, Alva , “Strange Tools”, 3rd section on the essence of the body,
Noë, Alva, Alva Noe, 2 books, theatre/art as philosophy "Strange tools: art & human nature" (Isa
suggests chapters "reorganizing ourselves" and "thought & experience", book "Action & perception"
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 Orcullo, Jules, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOYE-gCdSM8&feature=youtu.be
youtube talk
What’s left of you? Performance, decolonisation & self-determination | Jules Orcullo |
TEDxUCLWomen

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 Pickering, Andrew Pickering,"A Mangle In Practice"
 Pollan, Michael "How to Change Your Life: The new Science in Psychedelics" , I am using Pollan's
arguments to highlight that verbal language and logic alone lack access to mindfulness, insights and
understanding about the self and the world.
 Pollan, Michael; "How to Change Your Life: The new Science in Psychedelics" , I am using Pollan's
arguments to highlight that verbal language and logic alone lack access to mindfulness, insights
and understanding about the self and the world.
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Ranciere, Jacques, "The emancipated Spectator","The Politics of Aesthetics (Bloomsbury Revelations)"
Rau, Milo interview, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiypTV8kOMw
Roland, Alan "Dreams and Drama - spychoanalytic criticism, creativity and the arts" Alan Roland
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Rolf, Ida Rolf, Structure, Function, Integration: Journal of the Dr. Ida Rolf Instituteby Dr. Ida P.
Rolf and Dr. Ida Rolf Institute | 31 Jul 2019
Rolf, Ida, Rolfing: Re-establishing the Natural Alignment and Structural Integration of the Human
Body for Vitality and Well-Being, by Ida P. Rolf | 1 Sep 1992
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Rosenberg , Marshall , "non-violent communication" Looking at language and the violence in

language as a key point for changing communication and outcomes of dispute. Achieving non-violent
communication requires us to change our entire paradigm from a negative skeptical judgmental attitude
to a positive, trusting, generous one. hands-on techniques for re-thinking our reactions.
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Sandoval, Chella methodology of the oppressed has chapter on Foucault, was recommended by
Sarah Hart
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Schopenhauer, Arthur, "Studies in Pessimism" https://librivox.org/studies-in-pessimism-by-arthur-
schopenhauer/, (audiobook)
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0zmfNx7OM4 video about Schopenhauer
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Schlapbach, Karin,
 the Anatomy of Dance Discourse: Literary and Philosophical Approaches to Dance in the
Later Graeco-Roman World, Year: 2018, Edition: 1, Publisher:, Oxford University Press
Spangberg, marten, Ed., "Movement Research"
Spangberg, marten, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu-kVBZnRMg, talk about meaning,
 Slater, Don,about seeing and believing, tbd
Slater, Don ,
 about seeing and believing, tbd
Spillers, Hortense J.,
 "All the things you could be..." Psychoanalysis and Race, (I have the pdf on my laptop)

 Strathern, Marilyn, "The gender of the Gift": J Stor summary: In the most original and ambitious
synthesis yet undertaken in Melanesian scholarship, Marilyn Strathern argues that gender relations have
been a particular casualty of unexamined assumptions held by Western anthropologists and feminist
scholars alike. The book treats with equal seriousness—and with equal good humor—the insights of
Western social science, feminist politics, and ethnographic reporting, in order to rethink the
representation of Melanesian social and cultural life. This makes The Gender of the Gift one of the most
sustained critiques of cross-cultural comparison that anthropology has seen, and one of its most spirited
vindications.
Stuart, Meg. ,"Are we here yet?" Peeters, Jerome, 2009, book written by her with her dramaturg... Wie
schafft die Choreografin Meg Stuart Arbeit? In diesem Buch reflektiert Stuart auf ihre eigene Praxis in
Dialog mit Jeroen Peeters und einige (ehemalige) Damaged Goods-Mitarbeiter. Es greift Momente in
Stuarts künstlerische Flugbahn, Zeichnen von verschiedenen Linien durch die Arbeit von entstellen Studie
(1991), Maybe Forever (2007). Es enthält Bemerkungen zu machen und die Durchführung, Diskussionen
über Improvisation und Dramaturgie, Essays und visuelle Beiträge, ein Handbuch mit Stuarts Übungen
und eine Auswahl von Dokumenten und Texten Leistung. Essays von Myriam van Imschoot und André
Lepecki sowie Bild-Beiträge von Doris Dziersk, Tina Kloempken, Jorge León und Anna Viebrock u.a..
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Sweigard, Lulu, https://www.amazon.com/Human-Movement-Potential-Ideokinetic-
Facilitation/dp/1626549443 (Trish used this as a teaching tool)
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Taussig, Michael, 'mimesis and alterity', chapters: (spacing out), (the spirit of the mime), (the spirit
of the gift), amazon excerpt at: https://www.amazon.de/Mimesis-Alterity-Particular-History-
Senses/dp/0415906865/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD
%C3%95%C3%91&dchild=1&keywords=mimesis+and+alterity&qid=1588777626&sr=8-1, I have the pdf
Taussig, Michael. youtube talk, interview with Michael Taussig, https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=3VMYSgPWFKs, mentions Mimesis and Alterity, video, talk by Michael
Taussig, https://www.youtube.com/watv=l_N3Zb4w350, "Mimetic Exchange: Michael Taussig on Juan
Downey and Jean Rouch"
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Tallbear, Kim, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkUeHCUrQ6E, video talk, Life (Un)Ltd Lecture:

Kim TallBear - Beyond Life/Not Life

Tallbear. Kim,, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzVKVBgb4S4, video talk, science and

whiteness,
Tallbear. Kim,, audio interview: https://www.multiamory.com/podcast/181-kim-tallbear, Settler

Sexuality,
Tallbear. Kim,, video talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfdo2ujRUv8, "Making Love and

Relations Beyond Settler Sexualities"
Tallbear. Kim, Disrupting life/not-life, video talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE-gaDG-

kLQ, (DOPE 2015 Keynote Address) Mostly used here to point out another aspect of the same violent
attitudes: colonization, and to argue with her about certain aspects relating to the body.
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Todd, Mabel Elsworth. The Thinking Body; a Study of the Balancing Forces of Dynamic Man. Brooklyn:
Dance Horizons, 1968. Print. Looking at the human body and it's interplay of 'bodyparts'. I am hoping to
find correlations between physiological tendencies and psychological/interpersonal tendencies. Is the
body 'designed' to express, articulate, how doe it do that, etc.
Tolle, Eckhart, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjioVaqoyU0&feature=youtu.be, Talk, "Life After

Awareness/Do you let the universe take control? "stress arises, stress is another indicator that you are no
longer fully aligned with the power within... you're losing power quickly." @10:00
Eckhart Tolle, How do you know when higher consciousness is guiding

you? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFPgTUpcZcY&feature=youtu.be
Taylor, Diana,"The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cutural memory in the Americas"; Taylor
talks about archive and repertoire: static versus alive and changing, talks about narrative versus
scenarios: The narrative approach makes the viewer/audience a passive observer, someone who judges. The
scenario makes the performer someone who offers possibilities and inspiration and the viewer/audience
becomes an active player in creating narrative. I might be able to get an interestign view on narrative from
Taylor to illuminate the choreographic process of extracting meaning/(what I call narrative) and i might be
curious about investigating ideas of the 'scenario' to talk about my ideas of narrative/meaning/signification,
etc.

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Williams, James, Gilles Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: A Critical Introduction and Guide", by James
Williams, I have the pdf
Wilson, Robert, "TSE, Come in under the shadow of this red rock" (performance experience in Weimar,
Germany)
Wilson, Shawn , Research as Ceremony
Wink, Walter Wink, talks about violence and violence as the foundation for western culture. Much of
Marshall Rosenberg's work was influenced by Walter Wink. he lays the foundation for some of the
language used in Rosenberg's Non-violent Communication.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, Ludwig Wittgenstein, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ33gAyhg2c
other >>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmwgmt7wcv8&t=138s
video
Language & Meaning: Crash Course Philosophy #26

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 Does articulation theory relate to my articulation theory?

In sociology, articulation labels the process by which particular classes appropriate cultural forms
and practices for their own use. The term appears to have originated from the work of Antonio
Gramsci, specifically from his conception of superstructure. Wikipedia
 The ANT, and maybe i am entirely misunderstanding them, is a western attempt at reasoning for a
kinship model, while staying within scientific and western cognitive reasoning/philosophical
paradigms. Where does the ANT succeed and where does it fall short of ...what do i call this that i
am looking for? waking up? realization of connectedness and interdependence, kinship?

Earthbeings: ... Marisol De la Cadena (Isa is reading it right now and really likes it, thinks it would be
helpful to me. SHe says really useful things about translation)
Connecting to spirit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwX7GdiTTXw&feature=youtu.be, Song For The Sacred Elements -
Chenoa Egawa & Alex Turtle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-079YIasck&feature=youtu.be, Master Shi Heng Yi – 5 hindrances

to self-mastery | Shi Heng YI | TEDxVitosha
https://explore.scimednet.org/index.php/category/people/alex-tsakiris/, The Scientific and Medical

Network - Exploring and Expanding the Frontiers of Science, medicine and Spirituality"
"Das Schoepferische Universum - Die Theorie der Morphogenetischen Felder und der morphischen
Resonanz", Rupert Sheldrake
Wizard stuff
"How to become a real wizard"

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?
q=youtube+wizard+talk&docid=608056309521056730&mid=86397A96E6D1D310E67B86397A96E6D1D31
0E67B&view=detail&FORM=VIRE
1.Kinship, Law, and the unexpected: relatives are always a surprise, https://books.google.de/books?

id=PSqXjcxJMAQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=marilyn+strathern,
+kinship+and+the+unexpected&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwib_pPOxtbqAhXNi6QKHf3bCw8Q6AEwAH
oECAYQAg#v=onepage&q=marilyn%20strathern%2C%20kinship%20and%20the
%20unexpected&f=false
FIRTHER READING, BACKGROUND/FOUNDATIONAL WRITINGS

Grosz, Elizabeth, Sexual Subversions, intro about phenomenology/history of phenomenology

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WHAT IS EFFORT? WHAT IS

Karola Lüttringhaus QE 2021

DEFINING NON-VIOLENCE &

FROM THE INSIDE OUT

Karola Lüttringhaus QE 2021

Karola Lüttringhaus QE 2021

I am working with terminology of oppression and regulation versus acceptance and responsiveness.

I am bringing a canon of thinkers and practitioners together in an imagined, hypothetical

The non-verbal, unknown, the felt, the intuited

Why study effort and effortlessness?

Karola Lüttringhaus QE 2021

It came out of a desire to overcome fear.

It came out of a desire to understand the world.

it came out of a desire to understand myself.

it came out of a desire to find inner peace.

THINKING & HOW CAN WE THINK

Karola Lüttringhaus QE 2021

HOW DOES MOVING CHANGE

Karola Lüttringhaus QE 2021

TRANSCENDENTAL AND PRACTICE SPECIFIC

My hypothesis is that working with the body, as a body, as an actively experiencing, moving and

Hypothesis: understanding is dependent on an embodied learning process/moment. There has to be

Karola Lüttringhaus QE 2021

Karola Lüttringhaus QE 2021

◦ "ROBIN KIMMERER: How to Nurture Your Soul through Indigenous Wisdom" interview

◦ Wall Kimmerer, Robin, "Gathering Moss"

◦ Wall Kimmerer, Robin, "reclaiming the honorable

forces of colonialism and assimilation...

Karola Lüttringhaus QE 2021

◦ Tallbear, Kim, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkUeHCUrQ6E, video talk, Life (Un)Ltd

◦ Tallbear. Kim,, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzVKVBgb4S4, video talk, science and

◦ Tallbear. Kim,, audio interview: https://www.multiamory.com/podcast/181-kim-tallbear,

◦ Tallbear. Kim,, video talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfdo2ujRUv8, "Making Love

◦ Tallbear. Kim, Disrupting life/not-life, video talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE-

◦ Winona LaDuke, Seeds The Creator gave Us, @ Bioneers

Karola Lüttringhaus QE 2021

Karola Lüttringhaus QE 2021

 Wall Kimmerer, Robin, video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dnS8c7ndRM "ROBIN

 Merleau-Ponty, Maurice "Phenomenology of perception", (I have the pdf)

Karola Lüttringhaus QE 2021

 Hanna, Thomas Louis (Hannah Somatics) , "Somatics: Reawakening The Mind's Control Of

 Lorde, Audre, "The Master's Tools..."

Karola Lüttringhaus QE 2021

◦ Freire, Paulo "Pedagogy of the Oppressed"

◦ Jihoon, Kim, Intermedial essay films: “Memories-in-between”, from Anuj:

Important to me here is the idea of touch between light and flesh.

Karola Lüttringhaus QE 2021

Karola Lüttringhaus QE 2021

 Hick, Alexander, "Thinking like a Mountain", film, https://www.youtube.com/watch?

 Kohn, Eduardo, How Forests Think (Ch 2 The Living Thought) by

 Laermans, Rudi, 'moving together', (part 1), ('social choreographies of Collaboration') around p.

 O'Conor, Kevin, "Moving and Thinking with Fascia" https://contactquarterly.com/cq/article-

 Hunter, Lynette "Moving Like Water"

Karola Lüttringhaus QE 2021

▪ Faust, Frey, class observations Doesn't believe in effortlessness, there is pleasant and

Karola Lüttringhaus QE 2021

 Daodejing Daodejing: side by side comparison of English

 DaodejingDaodejing S. Mitchell translation, audio, read by S. Mitchell,

 Daodejing, Daodejing, Ursula Le Guin tanslation (I have the pdf)

 Watts, Alan Watts, wu wei, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzaUGhhnlQ8

 Slingerland, Edward G, Effortless action Wu-wei as conceptual metaphor and spiritual ideal