This chapter presents an overview of the practice and research that I, the author, am currently engaged in, and the background and motivation that led me there. I currently work on movement/dance education using a somatic approach and conducting research related to it. I have been interested in physical movement since childhood, and dancing has always been a part of my life. An injury led me to look at the movement of my own body, which triggered my interest in academic research. Since my first academic research in 2009, my perspective on “movement” has changed in various ways as my “body perspective” has been transformed. Through practice and research, I have come to realize that focusing on the movements of the body—the subject of our feelings, thoughts, and actions—helps us to consider the fact of our existence and our living. Looking back on my research to date, each study has been conducted with a different approach in terms of person (first/second/third person), method (quantitative/qualitative), and perspective (part/whole). By shifting back and forth between these different approaches, I learned that we can change what we see. Through these experiences, I now realize that my research on or through the body and movements is always based on my own body, that is the body of the researcher.

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Practice and Research Through the Moving Body

  • Yuko Hashimoto

摘要

This chapter presents an overview of the practice and research that I, the author, am currently engaged in, and the background and motivation that led me there. I currently work on movement/dance education using a somatic approach and conducting research related to it. I have been interested in physical movement since childhood, and dancing has always been a part of my life. An injury led me to look at the movement of my own body, which triggered my interest in academic research. Since my first academic research in 2009, my perspective on “movement” has changed in various ways as my “body perspective” has been transformed. Through practice and research, I have come to realize that focusing on the movements of the body—the subject of our feelings, thoughts, and actions—helps us to consider the fact of our existence and our living. Looking back on my research to date, each study has been conducted with a different approach in terms of person (first/second/third person), method (quantitative/qualitative), and perspective (part/whole). By shifting back and forth between these different approaches, I learned that we can change what we see. Through these experiences, I now realize that my research on or through the body and movements is always based on my own body, that is the body of the researcher.