Nine Ways of Seeing a Body

by Sandra Reeve

This book presents nine lenses through which the body is conventionally viewed. The body as object, the body as subject, the phenomenological body, the contextual body, the interdependent body, the environmental body, the cultural body and, finally, the ecological body. Designed to be a guide and stimulus for teachers, students and practitioners of dance, performance, movement, somatics and the arts therapies - and for anyone troubled by the idea of a brain on legs.

72 pages, Paperback

First published June 28, 2011

Reviews

[Carran Waterfield · Rating 5 out of 5]

Valuable introduction for students and movers new to Sandra Reeves' work

[M · Rating 3 out of 5]

A really interesting, easy to read book on the body & ways of thinking/seeing/perceiving it. While it is not the most scientific and it sometimes lacks the very information it tries to give, it is quite poetic and makes one think (for example: body as an object - drawn from Rene Descartes' mind/body split, body as subject, body as cultural or contextual, body in the environment, the phenomenological body and finally Reeve's concept, the ecological body as being always in movement, connected).