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  So so proud to announce SOON launching of the book The ‘female’ dancer: a soma-scientific approach This book aims to question dancers’ relationship with ‘female’ through biological, anatomical, scientific and self-social identity. The book contributors were excellent dance and somatic scholars, and movement practitioners and researchers. Withing the book we were trying to discuss and unpack some of the identities, premises, and perceptions of female dancing bodies. The ‘female’ is recognised as both a gendered and biological term and encourage contributions that consider how ‘female’ relates to lived experiences and bodily knowledge through social, psychological, philosophical, political, cultural contexts and those that relate to ‘female’ as attributed to biological sex and topics that reflect this in terms of physiology and anatomy. This book draws together somatic experiences of the ‘female’ dancer, that are socially, politically and culturally informed. Spanning five central ...