“I Feel Beautiful When I Dance”: Beauty and Somatic Dance

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Integrative and Complementary TherapiesVol. 29, No. 3 “I Feel Beautiful When I Dance”: Beauty and Somatic DanceHiie SaumaaHiie SaumaaHiie Saumaa, PhD, is a dance writer, scholar, and somatic movement educator. She is a certified instructor of Nia dance, The BodyLogos Technique, and JourneyDance, and teaches classes and workshops in sensory-based dance modalities, creative movement, expressive arts, mindful strength training, and somatic awareness. Her work explores interconnections between dance, somatics, embodied knowledge, health, creativity, and imagination. In 2018–2019, she was an inaugural fellow at Columbia University's Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris, France, and in 2017, she was a fellow at the Dance Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. She has taught at Columbia University, New York University, the University of Tennessee, Paris College of Art, EFREI Pantheon-Assas, the Catholic University of Paris, Emlyon Business School, and l'Institut Mines-Télécom.Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:16 Jun 2023https://doi.org/10.1089/ict.2023.29072.hsaAboutSectionsView articleView Full TextPDF/EPUB Permissions & CitationsPermissionsDownload CitationsTrack CitationsAdd to favorites Back To Publication ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail View articleFiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Volume 29Issue 3Jun 2023 InformationCopyright 2023, Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishersTo cite this article:Hiie Saumaa.“I Feel Beautiful When I Dance”: Beauty and Somatic Dance.Integrative and Complementary Therapies.Jun 2023.125-129.http://doi.org/10.1089/ict.2023.29072.hsaPublished in Volume: 29 Issue 3: June 16, 2023PDF download