The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing

Vicky Karkou holds the Chair of Dance, Arts and Wellbeing at Edge Hill University. A qualified dance teacher, researcher and dance movement psychotherapist, she has lengthy experience of working with diverse clinical populations in different settings. She is widely published in peer-reviewed journals and books, and acts as the co-editor of the international journal Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy published by Taylor and Francis. She travels extensively around the world for research and teaching purposes.Sue Oliver is a freelance dance tutor and researcher. Based in Scotland, she left her post as senior teacher and dance tutor for her local education authority to concentrate on her research in creative dance and wellbeing, focusing on children, adolescents, and latterly older adults, including seated movement to music in day care settings. Current projects include dance with sufferers of Parkinson's Disease and community-based choreographic projects. Sophia Lycourisis an academic interested in interdisciplinary research methodologies and research by creative practice. She is also an artist working with movement/dance, choreography, improvisation, performance and new technologies since the late 90s. Her work involves processes of "listening" to spaces and designing subtle movement interventions, which trigger affective transformations. Her academic projects on movement and new technologies have been funded by research councils and her artistic work has been presented in the UK, Europe, and USA.

• IntroductionVicky Karkou, Sue Oliver and Sophia LycourisSection A: Dance and the BodyVicky Karkou and Sue Oliver1. The Dancing Queen: Explanatory Mechanisms of the 'Feel-Good-Effect' in DanceCorinne Jola and Luis Calmeiro2. Dance in the Body, the Mind, and the Brain: Neurocognitive Research inspired by Dancers and their AudienceBettina Bläsing3. Subjective and Neurophysiological Perspectives on Emotion Perception from DanceMarie-Helene Grosbras, Matthew Reason, Haodan Tan, Rosie Kay, and Frank Pollick 4. Evidence-based BIODANZA Programmes for Children (TANZPRO-Biodanza) in Schools and Kindergartens: Some Effects on Psychology, Physiology, Hormones and the Immune SystemMarcus Stück and Alejandra Villegas 5. Dancing to Resist, Reduce and Escape StressJudith Lynne Hanna6. Body Memory and its Recuperation through MovementHeidrun Panhofer7. Listening to the Moving Body: Movement approaches in Body PsychotherapyLaura-Hope Steckler8. Authentic Movement as a Practice for WellbeingJane Bacon9. Authentic Movement and the Relationship of Embodied Spirituality to Health and WellbeingZoe Avstreih10. Reimagining Our Relationship to the Dancing BodyAndrea OlsenSection B. Dance within Performative ContextsSophia Lycouris and Vicky KarkouWith contribution from Taira Restar on her work with Anna Halprin 11. A Greater Fullness of Life: Wellbeing in Early Modern DanceMichael Huxley and Ramsay Burt12. Therapeutic Performance: When Private Moves to PublicThania Acarón13. Portals of Conscious Transformation: from Authentic Movement to PerformanceMarcia Plevin 14. Butoh Dance, Noguchi Taiso and Healing Paola Esposito and Toshiharu Kasai15. Flow in the Dancing Body: An Intersubjective ExperienceLouise Douse16. Common Embrace: Wellbeing in Rosemary Lee's Choreography of Inclusive Dancing CommunitiesDoran George17. Wellbeing and the Aging DancerJan Bolwell18. Being in Pieces: Integrating Dance, Identity and Mental HealthMark Edward and Fiona Bannon19. Writing Body Stories June Gersten Roberts20. (Im)possible Performatives: Embodying the Politics of Loss Beatrice AllegrantiSection C. Dance in EducationSue Oliver and Vicky KarkouWith contributions from Julie Joseph, Jo Bungay-Orr, and Foteini Athanasiadou 21. Provoking Change: Dance Pedagogy and Curriculum DesignAnn Kipling Brown 22. Pedagogies of Dance Teaching and Dance Leading Jayne Stevens 23. Creative Dance in Schools: A Snapshot of Two European ContextsSue Oliver, Monika Konold, and Christina Larek24. Moving Systems: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Enhance Learning and Avoid Dropping-outClaire Schaub-Moore25. Dance/Movement and Embodied Knowing with AdolescentsNancy Beardall26. Movement Therapy Programme with Children with Mild Learning Difficulties in Primary Schools in Saudi Arabia: Links between Motion and EmotionAbdulazeem Alotaibi, Vassiliki Karkou, Marietta L van der Linden, and Lindesay Irvine 27. Dance Movement Therapy, Student Learning and Wellbeing in Special EducationSue Mullane and Kim Dunphy28. The Wellbeing of Students in Dance Movement Therapy Masters ProgramsHilda Wengrower29. Cultivating the 'Felt Sense' of Wellbeing - How we Know we are WellAnna Fiona Keogh and Joan DavisSection D. Dance in the CommunitySue Oliver and Vicky Karkou With contributions from Carolyn Fresquez and Barbara Erber 30. Free to Dance: Community Dance with Adolescent Girls in ScotlandAnna Kenrick, Carolyn Lappin, and Sue Oliver31. Methods of Promoting Gender Development in Young Children Through Developmental Dance Rhythms: A Kestenberg Movement Profile (KMP) Dance/Movement Therapy ApproachSusan Loman32. Together We Move: Creating a Laban-style Movement ChoirCynthia Pratt33. Touching Disability Culture: Dancing TiresiasPetra Kuppers choreographing an essay with contributions from Lisa Steichmann, Jonny Gray, Melanie Yergeau, Aimee Meredith Cox, Nora Simonhjell, Neil Marcus, Elizabeth Currans, Amber DiPietra, and Stephanie Heit34. 'Building Relations': A Methodological Consideration of Dance and Wellbeing in Psychosocial Work with War-affected Refugee Children and Their FamiliesAllison Singer35. Reconstructing the World of Survivors of Torture for Political Reasons through Dance/Movement TherapyMaralia Reca36. Haunted by Meaning: Dance as Aesthetic Activism Sherry B. Shapiro37. Cultural Adaptations of Dance Movement Psychotherapy Experiences: From a UK Higher education Context to a Transdisciplinary Water Resource Management Research PracticeAthiná Copteros, Vicky Karkou, and Tally Palmer38. Capoeira in the Community: The Social Arena for the Development of Wellbeing André Luiz Teixeira Reis and Sue Oliver39. The 5Rhythms® Movement Practice: Journey to Wellbeing, Empowerment and TransformationMati Vargas-Gibson, Sarena Wolfaard, and Emma RobertsSection E. Dance in Health Care ContextsVicky Karkou and Sue OliverWith a contribution from Chan Nga Shan and Ania Zubala 40. Dance Movement Therapy in Health Care: Should we Dance across the Floor of the Ward?Iris Bräuninger and Gonzalo Bacigalupe 41. Dance as Art in HospitalDiane Amans 42. The BodyMind Approach(tm): Supporting the wellbeing of patients with chronic medically unexplained symptoms in primary health care in EnglandHelen Payne43. Dance Therapy-Primitive Expression Contributes to Wellbeing Alexia Margariti, Periklis Ktonas, Thomas Paparrigopoulos, and Grigoris Vaslamatzis 44. Dance: An Aesthetic Experience to Foster Wellbeing for Vulnerable Mothers and InfantsElizabeth Loughlin45. Dance Therapy and the Possibility of Wellbeing with People with DementiaHeather Hill46. Emotions in Motion: Depression in Dance-Movement and Dance-Movement in Treatment of DepressionMarko Punkanen, Suvi Saarikallio, Outi Leinonen, Anita Forsblom, Kristo Kulju, and Geoff Luck47. (Dis-)Embodiment in Schizophrenia: Effects of Mirroring on Self-Experience, Empathy and WellbeingSabine C. Koch, Janna Kelbel, Astrid Kolter, Heribert Sattel, and Thomas Fuchs48. Dance/Movement Therapy and Breast Cancer Care: A Wellbeing Approach Ilene Serlin, Nancy Goldov, and Erika Hansen49. Attending to the Heart beat in Dance Movement Psychotherapy: Improvements in Mood and Quality of Life for Patients with Coronary Heart DiseaseMariam Mchitarian, Joseph Moutiris, and Vicky KarkouConclusionVicky Karkou and Sue Oliver

An immensely rich resource for scholars and general audiences who are curious about mind-body communication, different types of dance movement, somatics, embodied learning, kineaesthesia and empathy, and the therapeutic potential of movement.