...maska / SOMANTICS
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Editor: Pia Brezavšček
Co-editor: Jasmina Založnik
Publishers: Maska, Nomad Dance Academy Slovenia
Contributing authors: Dragana Alfirević, Alexandra Baybutt, Thiago Granato, Jae Lee Kim, Zrinka Simčič Mihanović, Marko Gutić Mižimakov, Radharani Pernarčič, Snježana Premuš
Translations: Urban Belina, Špela Bibič, Barbara Hribar, Iva Jevtič, Katja Kosi
Slovene language editors: Melita Silič, Tjaša Mislej, Martin Vrtačnik
English language editor: Jana Jevtović
Design and layout: Niko Lapkovski
Design of the appendix: Aleksej Niko Stojanović
With financial support of the project Dance On, Pass On, Dream On (in the frame of Creative Europe), the Slovenian Book Agency.
Volume XXXVIII, No. 215–216 (Autumn 2023)
ISSN 1318-0509
Excerpt from the editorial text
The impetus for the theme of this issue is certainly the fact that in Slovenian contemporary dance artistic creation, interest in somatic practices has visibly expanded in recent decades. These are holistic approaches to movement, where it is not only about how the movement is performed and seen, but also about how it is understood and felt from the inside, which opens up completely different insights into the connection between mind and body. The present issue is thus a contribution to the description and critical discussion of selected artistic practices based on somatics, and is by no means a list of all such experiments. It is a contribution to their understanding and a stone in the mosaic of activism for more conscious action, embodied thought, slowing down and empathetic action.