Rhetorical Moves
Subtitle
Reclaiming the Dancer as Rhetor in a Dance Performance
"Rhetorical Moves" presents groundbreaking research theorizing for the first time the dancer as a rhetor and in the process documents a new way to conceive of embodiment. Research is centered in the embodied experience of the dancer whose voice in the action of performance is reclaimed. By transplanting the framework of a rhetorical situation onto a dance performance, Cynthia Roses-Thema analyzes how the dancer utilizes interoceptive, exteroceptive and proprioceptive bodily perception networks to create onstage movement. The result has important implications for dance professionals. If you are a dancer, this book gives you new insight into how you negotiate the many variables of embodiment during performance. If you are a dance teacher, this study provides you with information on the dynamics of dancer perception and attentional flow during the course of performance that will inform your pedagogical practices. If you are a dance researcher, Roses-Thema has opened a new field of inquiry into dance studies ripe with research possibilities. "Rhetorical Moves" demonstrates the depth and breadth the dancer experiences onstage and is a must-read for all dance enthusiasts.
Bio
Cynthia Roses-Thema earned a PhD in English at Arizona State University in 2007 and also earned a Master of Fine Arts in dance at ASU in 2003. She is currently a principal lecturer in the ASU Herberger Institute's School of Music, Dance and Theatre.