Keevallik2014
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| BibType | INCOLLECTION |
| Key | Keevallik2014 |
| Author(s) | Leelo Keevallik |
| Title | Having a ball: Immaterial objects in dance instruction |
| Editor(s) | Maurice Nevile, Pentti Haddington, Trine Heinemann, Mirka Rauniomaa |
| Tag(s) | EMCA |
| Publisher | John Benjamins |
| Year | 2014 |
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| City | Amsterdam/Philadelphia |
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| Pages | 249 – 268 |
| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.1075/z.186.11kee |
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| Book title | Interacting with objects: language, materiality, and social activity |
| Chapter | Having a ball: Immaterial objects in dance instruction |
Abstract
This chapter looks at how immaterial objects are manipulated into being for pedagogical purposes. Dance teachers employ objects to visualise subtle tactile and kinaesthetic experiences. The objects emerge in a situated manner within activity metaphors where alternative bodily activities are juxtaposed with the dance movement, taking for granted that these alternative activities are tacitly known or more basic. The objects have a temporally limited existence within activity metaphors that involve verbal explanations as well as embodied demonstrations of both the dance and the alternative activity. Furthermore, participants are shown to orient differently to mere object-implying gestures as opposed to fully-fledged whole-body enactments. In the latter, objects may be maintained collectively across time.
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