COMPARING AND FLOATING with thoughts...

 


Sandra 
December 2, 2020 at 2:37 AM


Lately I have been reading S. Cottrell's (Critical Thinking Skills) and S. Fraleigh's (Moving Consciously) amazing books (I warmly recommend them) and since I am last 2,3 months very much into different kind of reflections I would like to share few sentences about critical thinking and dancing. It is obvious that thinking and dancing matching. "Dancing is thinking in movement" (Fraleigh, 2015, 155). When we merge into images full of life and forget ourselves in the moment then reflect again through the steps our past experiences and concentrate on area of our body than we know that we are, that are who we are, that we exist. All this experience is related to critical thinking and resonating which direct us to go through mental processes such as attention, categorization, selection or judgement (Cottrell, 2005, 1). "Using skepticism in critical thinking means bringing an element of polite doubt (Ibid, 2). When we use doubt constructively and certain set of methods to explore evidence in particular way than we can say that we reason things; that we improve observation, ability to identify key points, etc. In somatic work, mental imaging is very important. "Communicating embodiment knowing through participating in performance require a particular sensibility, awareness and openness to the self, audience ether spectators (Fraleigh, 2005, 158).
what are your thoughts about dancing and thinking in movement?

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