Knowing As Moving

Susan Leigh Foster is Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author, most recently, of Valuing Dance: Commodities and Gifts in Motion.

• Setting Out by Looking Back ixEssaying 1Walking as Place-Making 13Being, Knowing, and Acting 36Embodying the Decolonial 56Remembering Dancing 78Dancing’s Affordances 97Continuing On . . . 121Notes 123Bibliography 139Index 151

“Susan Leigh Foster demonstrates the superb bounty of thinking-as-moving in connectedness to the worlds that surround us. Knowing as Moving elaborates how continued engagement with study reveals worlds beyond worlds of ways to be with ideas in motion. Shimmering with insights gleaned from an exquisite ability to move ideas toward each other, Foster proves again that dancing supports the being-in-time that humans must engage in to participate in the urgent processes of life.” - Thomas F. DeFrantz, Professor of Performance Studies and Theatre, Northwestern University"Susan Leigh Foster is preeminent in dance studies and one of the germinal architects of the field’s successful emergence. Knowing as Moving will count among one of my personal favorites in Foster’s incredibly impressive oeuvre for the bravery and grace with which she takes on the task of thinking ever more laterally through and away from the very same Western philosophy and movement traditions in which she has come up. A broad, beautiful, smart, and timely book.” - Rebecca Schneider, Professor of Modern Culture and Media, Brown University