Body Knows, Spirit Dances: Somatic approaches in cross cultural dance exchange

Authors

Lauren Evans, Brigham Young University
Marin Roper, Brigham Young University

Keywords

spirit dances, choreography, Indian dance

College

Fine Arts and Communications

Department

Dance

Abstract

In June 2018, I accompanied three other undergraduate Dance major students and my mentor to Bangalore, India where we observed, trained with and learned choreography from five Indian dance artists over a two-week period to learn and teach autobiographical solos reflecting a personal ‘search for the sacred.’

Recommended Citation

Evans, Lauren and Roper, Marin (2019) "Body Knows, Spirit Dances: Somatic approaches in cross cultural dance exchange," Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2019: Iss. 2019, Article 65.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2019/iss2019/65