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Within Limits: Movement Restraint as a Catalyst for Body–Mind Awareness (last edited: 2026)

Lea Bitri
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This practice-as-research project investigates how movement restraints can enhance awareness of the body-mind connection within dance and movement practice. Drawing on individual participants’ movement histories, this exposition explores movement restraint, not as limitation or hinderance, but as a generative condition for heightened perception from a somatic perspective. This study was conducted through four workshops involving two participant groups, of technically-trained, and untrained dance backgrounds. Using physical constraints, and task-based improvisation, the workshops aimed to examine how restraining movement choices influenced sensory awareness, presence, and memory. Through reflective documentation, observation, and participant feedback, this practice-as-research intends to identify shifts in kinaesthetic perception, and body-mind connection. The exposition contributes experiential knowledge, referencing somatic and contemporary dance practices, proposing connected movement restraints as a tool for cultivating this somatic awareness, rather than restricting movement vocabulary potential.
typeresearch exposition
date28/01/2026
last modified07/02/2026
statusin progress
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copyrightLea Bitri
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/4151274/4151275


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