Everyday Body Research Articles

Writing the Everyday Breaking Body

As part of his working toward a new book, Writing, the Everyday, and Creative-Relational Inquiry, this article enquires into the everyday body, the body’s losses, joys, mess, beauty, and contradictions. It is an article about how a(n aging, White, male) body breaks, how it might (or might not) heal, what a body in its everyday movements remembers, knows, conveys, carries, mourns; what is lost but present. It begins to trouble and explore how we conceptualize “the body.” Bringing to the page the everyday poetics and prosaics of the struggling, soaring, body, and the legacies it holds, the article looks for creative-relational possibilities for writing the in/corporeal.

"Everyday Body" Model of Physicality in Theoretical and Practical Heritage of Merce Cunningham

The purpose of the article is to reveal the peculiarities of the formation of the "ordinary body" model of physicality in the postmodern dance system based on the analysis of the theoretical and practical legacy of Merce Cunningham. Research methodology. The analytical method, the methods of analysis and synthesis, the typological, dialectical and comparativist method were applied, which contributed to the clarification of the place and role of physicality in certain philosophical and cultural positions, to the study of the problem of physicality in general and the "everyday body" model in the concept of representatives of postmodern dance, consideration of theoretical – the practical legacy of M. Cunningham, the understanding of the internal relationship between the categories "body" and "physicality" in modern dance. Scientific novelty. The conceptual construct of corporeality, formulated within the framework of postmodern dance, is analysed; the cultural-historical model of physicality "everyday body" was characterised and the features of its representation in postmodern dance practices were revealed; changes in the perception of physicality in the context of the transformation of the sociocultural space of the 50s and 60s of the 20th century are analysed. The understanding of corporeality in the theoretical and practical discourse of postmodern dance by M. Cunningham is considered. Conclusions. At the core of the postmodern system is the principle of randomness, which is positioned as an artistic expression of the involvement of many bodies in the space of action of forces independent of them. In search of ways to free oneself from bodily canons that were formed in the sociocultural space, Merce Cunningham methodologically used randomness as the principle of creating a new dance corporeality, which lacks a coherent image and becomes a flow. In the process of constant experiments, the choreographer's own idea of what dance is (how it feels in the body and how it looks on stage) evolved. M. Cunningham's activities allowed him to overcome the limitations of his own taste and give priority to "movement for the sake of movement" – the dance no longer conveyed the story, emotions or characteristics of the characters. The choreographer completely departs from established dance lexicons, discovering innovative ways of organising and representing bodies in space and time by means of random operations. Taking into account these and numerous additional innovations, in the history of postmodern dance, M. Cunningham exerted the greatest influence on the formation of the "everyday body" model of physicality.
 Keywords: modern dance, postmodern dance, physicality, model of physicality "everyday body", M. Cunningham.

Rethinking the Actor's Body: Dialogues with Neuroscience by Dick McCaw

Reviewed by: Rethinking the Actor's Body: Dialogues with Neuroscience by Dick McCaw Dan Cullen Rethinking the Actor's Body: Dialogues with Neuroscience. Dick McCaw. London: Methuen, 2020; pp. 274. British acting teacher and theatre practitioner Dick McCaw's Rethinking the Actor's Body: Dialogues with Neuroscience is intended as a companion piece to his 2018 movement training manual, Training the Actor's Body: A Guide. It provides some useful insight into the theories of the body that underlie McCaw's practices and their attempt to bring the training techniques of Stanislavski and Feldenkrais—rooted in an early twentieth-century understanding of behavioral psychology—in line with contemporary understandings of neurological processes. In undertaking such a project, McCaw also places the book in dialogue with other attempts to define the relationship between the actor's work and the physical operation of the human brain such as Rhonda Blair's The Actor, Image, and Action: Acting and Cognitive Neuroscience (2008). Blair argues that there are significant gaps between the techniques actors use to create representations of action onstage and the cognitive processes that actually underlie human behavior. For Blair, those gaps are useful in creating performances that the spectator's brain can easily interpret. Conversely, McCaw contends that these gaps are not so great and that actor training should be working to bridge what remains of them. Rethinking the Actor's Body is divided into two parts. The first part is made up of four chapters in which McCaw defines "the actor's and the everyday body (which are, of course, the same thing)" and explains how he conceives of "the interrelation between brain and body" (10). These chapters rehearse well-trodden critiques from the last several decades that actor training relies on Cartesian verbiage, which incorrectly theorizes the body and mind as separate entities in a hierarchical relationship. Beyond that, McCaw's first chapter explores different possibilities for conceptions of the body and the nuances of considering it alternately as subject and object. From there, his second chapter outlines how the "everyday body" is transformed into the "actor's body" through training. He argues that the leap from the actions of simple organisms like ticks and sea slugs to the precisely rehearsed dramatic actions that actors engage in is much smaller than we might expect on account of their common basis in action with purpose informed by sensory information. Chapter three explains that the creation of the actor's body is never complete, that it is constantly in the process of converting cognitive processes into instinctual or habitual ones through practice. According to McCaw, "The ego … gets in the way of the source of creativity" (85). For McCaw and the neuroscientists, this source of creativity is the subconscious activity of the brain unhampered by cognitive oversight. McCaw suggests that this is what Stanislavski means when he describes proper acting technique as "nature working freely" (85). Readers cannot help but be reminded of similar arguments from the long nineteenth century that positioned naturalism and realism as the ultimate forms of artistic expression due to their supposed scientific accuracy. The argumentative structure of part two is less clear. It is instead more of a series of essays that seeks neurologically informed answers to some of acting theorists' classic questions: what does it mean to be "present" or to have "presence?" Does the body have a true, stable "center," or is the notion of "being centered" merely a useful metaphor? How does our mental image of our bodies correspond to the way we move through space, and can we reconstruct our way of moving by changing that image? By what process do we make emotions legible to other people, especially when so many of the symptoms of emotion (heart rate, pupil dilation, etc.) are outside our conscious control? McCaw concludes by acknowledging that being informed of the latest developments in cognitive science is unlikely to make the actor's job easier, but he hopes that his readers "think again about their own physical resources and potential, and in this act of rethinking to find new ways of doing" (224). Throughout the text, the author refers to his previously published practical guide as a...

Embodied Aging: Everyday body practices and Later Life Identities among the South Asian Indian Gujarati Diaspora in Canada

This study explores how South Asian Indian Gujarati older adults in Canada (Greater Vancouver area) strive to maintain personal continuity, citizenship, and selfhood through everyday body management practices (exercise/yoga, medication/health supplements, skin, and hair care routines) and cultural markers such as food, sartorial choices, and community engagement. This examination, we contend, is noteworthy against the backdrop of contemporary North American academic and popular discourses of a burgeoning consumerist movement around the medicalization of bodies and anti-aging technologies. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews of 26 older adults, we discuss how growing old in the diaspora is marked with moral ambivalence between ‘successful aging’ and ‘aging gracefully.’ Based on an inductive thematic analysis, we identify four major themes in how the older diaspora negotiate aging and reorganise their lives through changing social relations and shifting cultural institutions. The first theme is the growing salience of both bodily and social changes in conceptualizing “old age,” and how the experiences of aging vary by gender. Specifically, while most of the female participants visualized old age in terms of a loss of physical functionality, the male participants described agedness in terms of a loss of economic and social worth. The second major theme encapsulates the acceptable coping strategies for dealing with bodily changes and the associated reconfigurations of social roles. While a fit body and functionality were regarded as foundational traits for aging well by all participants, corrective measures or anti-aging products were not espoused as the most culturally appropriate “Indian” way of growing old. The third theme highlights the apprehensions regarding growing old in a foreign country, including a foreboding anxiety of dependence and frailty in the absence of traditional familial care networks. The final theme, explores how for most participants, the notion of home evoked ambivalence in constructing their sense of belonging and identity, often expressed through everyday practices and memory-keeping. Taken together, we ultimately show how age and embodiment are inextricably linked in the experience of growing old in the diaspora.

Dog Bites and Gastrointestinal Disorders: Our Everyday Bodies in Teaching Anthropology and Fieldwork Preparation

What are the physical experiences of fieldwork really like? This article invites anthropologists engaged in teaching to transform the way research methods are currently taught to include frank and thoughtful conversations on how bodies, in their mundane physicality, are implicated in fieldwork. While the (mindful) body that actively and purposefully engages with the reality under investigation has gained centrality in anthropological discussions about “being there”, the body that things happen to has been ignored or marginalised. We contend that an exploration of the body that falls ill, feels uncomfortable, or simply does not match with an idealised image of the skilled and productive fieldworker (often male and able-bodied) has practical, pedagogical, political, and analytical merits. By recounting some of our own private anecdotes of challenges encountered in fieldwork, we emphasise the centrality of our physical experiences to our ethnographic approach. Discussing the glamourless, bodily aspects of fieldwork is crucial to preparing ourselves and our students for fieldwork, to combating ableism in anthropology, and to downplaying anxiety over narrow standard goals of “good” fieldwork. We also argue that theoretical considerations of the messy and unpleasant physical experiences that fieldwork involves can bring further insight into how research is (un)done.

EDITORIAL - PROMOTION OF PSYCHIPHYSICAL HEALTH THROUGH EDUCATIONAL-MOTOR METODOLOGY

This volume of the journal is conceived as a broad overview on the phenomenological experience of the body mainly carried out through physical activity analysed in the different contexts: school, technology, home, in order to promote well-being. The need to reflect on the current condition arises precisely from the paradox highlighted by social science research that points, on the one hand, to an increasing development of technologies, especially assistive technologies, constituting a field of innovation full of promise especially for people with disabilities, while on the other hand an impoverishment of physical, social and emotional experience, due to the restrictions of containing the pandemic (Maestrutti, 2020). According to the National Institute of Health, physical activity is “any bodily movement that produces a substantial increase in energy expenditure sufficient to produce health benefits’’. It is therefore a link between exercise, understood as body experience, and psychophysical well-being in any condition, especially in relation to frailty. It is important to be aware of the factors that hinder participation or limit adherence to physical activity, not only because early drop-out rates are very high, but especially because this last long pandemic period has undermined the achievement of real psychophysical health benefits. Sensory experience of the body, which is normally multidimensional, was limited during the pandemic by reducing episodic opportunities and perceptual involvement (Rice et All, 2021). A flourishing literature displays a positive relationship between body functionality and positive body image, in particular, this combination is demonstrated by research published in the Disability and Health Journal, focusing on the experiences of people with disabilities and body differences. It examines the relationship between people’s body perceptions and the “socio-material” worlds and the “socio-virtual” worlds that are all too often a refuge for the projection of an inauthentic self. In their research, the authors (Na Xu, Yingyi Liu, 2020), built a bridge between the assessment of students’ body image and their state of well-being. Coping strategies played a central role and their specific function varied according to the type of disability. Everyday body activity is therefore a coping response, i.e. a constant effort of cognitive and behavioural change implemented to deal with specific internal and/or external demands (Lazarus and Folkman, 1984). It helps the individual to cope with and regulate the emotions accompanying a stressful stimulus, and can induce relaxation and distraction. It is a resource that enables individuals to evaluate themselves and their resources in dealing with a stressful event. It improves self-concept. Education and physical activity thus have a common denominator: the person and his or her emotional condition. From the research presented, new interested approaches emerge to explain the multiple interactions between the individual and the environment, paying attention to the influence of the environment, individual differences and social relationships.

Rival Bodies: Negotiating Gender and Embodiment in Women’s Bikini and Figure Competitions

Women’s bodybuilding has attracted attention from gender researchers. However, increasingly popular fitness shows that feature different competitive tracks—bikini and figure—have garnered very limited scholarly consideration. This study draws on interview data from twenty bikini and figure competitors as well as ethnographic research conducted at several prominent bodybuilding shows in Texas with fitness competition tracks. Our investigation provides a comparative analysis of women’s participation in bikini versus figure fitness competitions as an embodied gender practice. Participation in this relatively new sport underscores the interconnections between gender and variegated forms of embodiment that we call athletic, aesthetic, erotic, and everyday bodies. Pre-competition regimens pose challenges for women’s management of their bodies due to dietary deprivation, rigorous workouts, and the specter of track-specific judging criteria. Pre-competition strains are often evident in primary relationships as women’s bodies are prepared for aesthetic presentation in a way that, for bikini and especially figure competitors, can undermine physical functionality and social capabilities. Competitions themselves reveal relationships marked by a mix of camaraderie and hierarchy among competitors, with those in the figure track often viewed as more “serious” athletes but less conventionally “feminine” than their bikini counterparts. Post-competition, women often struggle to accept the return of their “normal” everyday body. This study reveals the agency of women and their bodies in the context of a fast-growing sport while considering the broader social implications of fitness competitions given their tracking of women’s bodies.

Everyday (online) body politics of menstruation

ABSTRACT There has been a growing trend to resist mainstream body ideals via social media sites. From fat-acceptance, vulva-positive to menstrual-pride blogs, Tumblrs and Facebook groups, people use social media to question and challenge mainstream depictions of the female body. In this article, I look at social media culture and how the notions of the menstrual body are evolving online. I analyze these concerns with a case study based on a women-only closed Facebook group created to discuss issues around feminine health, sexuality, and wellbeing. I argue that by looking from the lens of everyday politics, it is possible to understand how political participation and social change can emerge through people’s everyday practices. My findings suggest that the private Facebook group serves three purposes. One, as a pedagogical space to address a gap in knowledge about the menstrual cycle and menstrual health. Two, as a platform to break the silence around menstruation and make it visible to the public. Three, as a tool for building a caring community among the participants. This study illustrates how social media is used for everyday body politics, contributing to changing attitudes, beliefs, and values in daily life.

Mosques as Spaces of Everyday Geopolitical Tensions

ABSTRACT Mosques in Europe have long been and are still at the centre of political debates, despite the decades-long presence of migrant Muslim communities in Europe. Scholars within geography and other disciplines have studied mosques extensively with a focus on urban space politics, and examined tensions and conflicts between migrant mosque communities and the broader segments of the local people. In this paper, I focus on DITIB, a Turkish umbrella mosque organization in Germany, and I carry these debates into a transnational terrain, re-theorizing mosques not only as political sites, but also everyday geopolitical spaces where national imaginaries and territorial struggles take place in the daily lives of mosque communities. Through this approach, I draw on the studies of feminist geographers who have provided a renewed perspective to classical geopolitics discussions by revealing how geopolitical relations, struggles, and interactions also operate in everyday spaces, relations, and bodies of ordinary people by reproducing the deep-seated exclusions, discriminations and contestations. This paper contributes to critical geopolitics and geographies of religion literatures as well as to broader discussions on the geopolitics of religion by analysing how a mosque organization is situated at the centre of geopolitical tensions, and how transnational and transregional controversies operate on the walls and properties of mosques and in everyday social/cultural activities of mosque communities.

Small Pleasures: Tracings of the Endotic in Everyday Spaces, Acts and Bodies

ABSTRACT Small Pleasures is an extract from a work of critical autobiography in progress. It explores the theme of ‘animating interior worlds’ through the body, gender, genealogy and culture. This work pulls focus to smallness and interiority in everyday acts of living, remembering and relating in contemporary Sydney and Kuala Lumpur delimited by trajectories of work, health and pleasure, or their obverse. Using, as a meditation, George Perec’s notions of the infra-ordinary—‘that which we generally don’t notice, which doesn’t call attention to itself, which is of no importance’—and the endotic, described as a tool to ‘rescue astonishment from the forgotten obvious’ (Lorenzo Sandoval, The Endotic Institute), this work endeavours to ‘read and listen to immanent local traces’ as an approach to understanding larger global complexities that may impact upon a narrating body: experiences of race, migration, ‘women’s business’, illness, speaking and writing. In this essay, I attempt to demonstrate the use of critical autobiography, pathography and autoethnographic processes as a hybrid methodology that may prove fruitful for interrogating contested relationships between a narrator and their own body, the body's history (and memory) of place/displacement/emplacement, and the fluid and ambiguous relationships of that body with surrounding cultural landscapes.

Forever ‘Becoming’? Negotiating Gendered and Ageing Embodiment in Everyday Life

Drawing upon 62 participant-produced visual diaries and accompanying interview narratives, this article explores the significance of everyday body work for people in mid- to later life. Departing from previous work that has explored the intersections of gender and age in relation to a single embodied practice, this article highlights the salience of a myriad of bodily practices for the everyday ways that gender and ageing identities are constituted, specifically hair styling, beauty work, clothing, and dieting. We argue that women negotiate a gendered pressure to age well, which results in an in/visibility paradox, in which they are at one and the same time seen, but not seen. Consequently, we question whether women are thus forever ‘becoming’ – attempting to become embodied subjects, alongside subjecting to ‘becoming’ – aligning with normative discourses. The article examines the competing ways that ageing and gendered bodies are constructed, together with participants’ embodied resistance to negative normalising discourses.

Body Training Systems of Stage Movement Courses, in the Drama School of Iasi City

Abstract The contemporary choreographic movement of the 21st century may be viewed as a true patchwork of performance techniques and styles; a build-up of movements taken from established techniques, with elements of drama, ballet, improvisation and other connected disciplines. These challenges may be met only by a multi-technical and multi-stylistic approach in the training of future actors and choreographers. The transition from the everyday body to the theater body is the result of a process based on self-knowledge, documentation and practice.

Brief Lesson in Marriage (Lesson 2), and: Instead of the cross, the Albatross about my neck was hung

Brief Lesson in Marriage (Lesson 2), and: Instead of the cross, the Albatross about my neck was hung Iris Jamahl Dunkle (bio) Brief Lesson in Marriage (Lesson 2) We were living in the time of extinction. Feathered bodies aloft— Shadows tattooed across the river's throat in the violenceof where it meets the sea. This is before you became a cyborg. Your human heart still felt warmunder my good ear when I slept. We woke to the sea and the ash had dispersed. Have you ever seen one you asked We were screwing back on our legs and arms in the dawn light.Finding our everyday bodies. And you know to answer no even thoughyour dreams had been heavy with the bodies of whales Their migration tethering you out— Because something in you had rooted, brackish. [End Page 10] Instead of the cross, the Albatross about my neck was hung Had we believed in omens, had we knownthe way the albatross would stretch overthe cool deep that had seeped into the poolsthat kept the thrashing reptiles of our minds sated. On deck, the bird stood ten, perhaps twelve feet,wings, a muscular arc. What filled my headwas my cavernous room still being builtat Wolf House in Glen Ellen—how the birdcould have soared between thick knuckled rafters.How I wanted to kill it and did. HowI brought it back. Then, months later, when startledawake by Eliza's screams, by the lowmoan of loss from Jack, I looked out at the ridge where are our home had once stood, saw itstoking like the heart of the mountain crackedopen—I remembered that bird, saw its ghostfly out from the smoke. [End Page 11] Iris Jamahl Dunkle Iris Jamahl Dunkle was the 2017-2018 Poet Laureate of Sonoma County, CA. Her poetry collections include Interrupted Geographies (Trio House Press, 2017), Gold Passage (Trio House Press, 2013), and There's a Ghost in this Machine of Air (Word Tech, 2015). Her biography on Charmian London, Jack London's wife will be published by University of Oklahoma Press in 2020. Dunkle teaches at Napa Valley College and is the Poetry Director of the Napa Valley Writers' Conference. Copyright © 2020 Pleiades and Pleiades Press

PHYTOTHERAPY – HISTORY AND MODERN USE, EXAMPLES OF APPLICATION IN TREATMENT AND EVERYDAY PRODUCTS

Since the beginning of human race, people have used plants as the source of nourishment. Plants are made of proteins, fatty acids and carbohydrates; they contain mineral salts and other kinds of substances such as vitamins. All of the plant compounds are well known to modern science due to technology development and possibility of performing the experiments. However, our accentors could only depend on good luck and observe themselves after use of unknown plant. The knowledge about positive effects after the usage of plant extracts or their consumption were cherished and passed down to next generations. The prescriptions for home-made remedies for rheumatism, different kinds of pain, wounds etc. were always present in people’s life next to plant use in food preparation as spice or medical tinctures. There are certain experiments which showed that plants are very complex organisms. After many years of scientific research, it has been finally discovered what is responsible for making some plants beneficial for human and animal health or dangerous and toxic in other cases. These days, biochemical characters of plant properties do not pose any secret to people who are conscious of the advantages resulting from using them every day. Particularly every cosmetic product contains some secondary metabolites or plant extracts, which provide certain results in everyday body care. When it comes to night creams, certain chemical peelings and face gels plant enzymes should be mentioned. The positive activity of these creams is connected with skin regeneration processes. Flaking is obstructed by the enzymes which are able to degrade dead skin cells. This process may cause new cells’ activation, which will replace dead skin cells. Such a reaction triggered by enzymes is used in treatment of scars, as well as in the prevention of skin aging. The effectiveness of the herbal therapy is found in substances high in biological activities. Herbs and their products of metabolism can be used in medical treatment of numerous conditions such as indigestion disorders starting from malnutrition and ending with obesity. In case of cardiac failure the most important remedies are heart medicaments.

Econutrition, brown and beige fat tissue and obesity.

Obesity is caused by excessive fat accumulation or abnormal fat distribution and has become one of the biggest health challenges worldwide. Considering the high thermogenic ability of brown fat tissue (BAT) and the plasticity of fat tissue, to induce the browning of white fat tissue (WAT), so increasing BAT activity provides an attractive option for the prevention and resolution of obesity. The aim of the present narrative review was to understand the relationship between diet, BAT, and obesity. PubMed and Embase databases were searched to identify eligible studies. Although cold exposure has long been known to be effective in the browning of WAT and activation of BAT, it is societally impractical for everyday body weight management aside from the tolerance of ambient temperature. An alternative is to identify specific dietary components with similar effects to cold exposure on BAT. Current evidence indicates that capsaicin and capsinoids, catechins, curcumin, quercetin, berberine, lipoic acid, polyunsaturated fatty acids, royal jelly, and some natural sweeteners are effective promoters of WAT browning, increase BAT activity and improve obesity related traits. However, only capsaicin, capsinoids, and catechins have demonstrated efficacy in clinical trials. Evidence for effects of curcumin, quercetin, berberine, lipoic acid, polyunsaturated fatty acids, royal jelly and natural sweeteners on BAT have only been observed in animal or in vitro studies, with clinical trials awaited for verification. Several dietary components can induce WAT browning and activate BAT, offering potential targets for obesity prevention and management.

Sudanese Women’s Groups on Facebook and #Civil_Disobedience:Nairat or Thairat?(Radiant or Revolutionary?)

Abstract:The first two decades of the twenty-first century witnessed expanded digital connectivity, with important political implications, evident in the way activists used Facebook and Twitter to mobilize for political change in North Africa and beyond in 2010/2011, and in Sudan, including in 2018 and 2019. These platforms are also often sites where women may articulate narratives on the body and the body politic. Through digital ethnographic research, this study explores social and cultural narratives on everyday body aesthetics that Sudanese women articulate in selected groups on Facebook. I argue that the role some of these groups played in organizing civil disobedience in Sudan in November 2016 disrupts the binary inherent in the question:Nairat or Thairat?

In bodies and homes: Gendering citizenship in Southern African cities

How do the everyday contexts in which ordinary women struggle to access and maintain a place on the peripheries of the city shape experiences of citizenship? This paper explores this question in George, a periurban Lusaka neighbourhood in Zambia and through experiences of Zimbabwean migrant women’s negotiation of a place on the peri-urban edges of Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa. In the logics of citizen-subjects, the experiences of these groups of women should be poles apart, the first with rights imbued in citizenship, the second migrants without. Here instead, we demonstrate the ways in which gendered political subjectivities embed in the hard, lived realities of home. In placing gender and everyday body politics at the forefront of our analysis, the paper makes visible the micro-realities of making home. We demonstrate that an assumed recursive relationship between citizenship and home, as a physical and social place in the city, is problematic. Building on debates on citizenship and its gendering in post-colonial African urban contexts, we demonstrate instead that citizenship and its gendered contestations and emergent forms in Southern African are crafted in quotidian activities in homes and everyday city contexts.

THE ANATOMY OF OROFACIAL INNERVATION.

SUMMARYThe whole human body receives rich sensory innervation with only one exception and that is the brain tissue. The orofacial region is hence no exception. The head region consequently receives a rich network of sensory nerves making it special because the two types of sensory fibres, visceral and somatic overlap, especially in the pharynx. Also, different pain syndromes that affect this region are rather specific in comparison to their presentation in other body regions. With this review article we wanted to show the detailed anatomy of the peripheral sensory pathways, because of its importance in everyday body functions (eating, drinking, speech) as well as the importance it has in pathological conditions (pain syndromes), in diagnostics and regional analgesia and anaesthesia.

O Teatro da Experiência coreografado por Pina Bausch

Resumo: Um teatro no qual o espectador é envolvido em todos os seus sentidos, oferecendo condições de acolhimento. Na obra de Pina Bausch, o comportamento do corpo cotidiano não será apenas uma questão de estilo; sua dança desenvolve conteúdo, com grafia própria e convida o espectador a experimentar uma realidade poética. Para isso, o artigo apresenta inicialmente uma linha histórica do Tanztheater, seus atributos e inter-relações, até chegar às características específicas de quatro obras da coreógrafa, criadas no período que abrange as duas primeiras décadas (1974-1989) de sua frutífera produção, e que foram assistidas ao vivo pela autora do texto.

Feeling Old, Body and Soul: The Effect of Aging Body Reminders on Age Identity.

Although changes in body functioning and appearance signal the aging process to ourselves and others, studies give limited attention to the effect of bodily experiences of aging on age identity. Our study examines the effect on age identity of 3 categories of aging body reminders: everyday body problems, body repairs, and body aids. Hierarchical linear models are run using 5 waves of the National Health and Aging Trends Study (2011-2015). Models predict the effect on age identity of change in the count of everyday body problems (e.g., pain), body repairs (i.e., surgeries and medications), and body aids (e.g., hearing aids). Increases in everyday body problems and body repairs (in particular, medications) predict older identities, with the strongest average effect found for everyday body problems. These results are observed in models controlling on health, suggesting that body reminders exert independent effects. Our study reveals a realm of aging experiences-bodily experiences-that influence age identity. Avenues for further research include examinations of other aging body reminders, as well as variation across individuals.