Full Description
Retired Performers' Reflections for Movement Practice explores how former expert performers from the realms of sport, dance, and movement practice relate to and subsequently teach, coach, or instruct their disciplines. This edited collection is the first of its kind to bring together sociologically informed accounts from former expert performers regarding the influence of their ongoing reflections on how they now choose to navigate performance spaces.
The chapters examine the legacy of each author's involvement in their movement performance space, but they specifically do so with a focus on how their post-performance experiences and reflections have reoriented how they approach their coaching practice, instruction, pedagogy, and community engagement.
This book is key reading for graduate and postgraduate students as well as academics and researchers interested in performance retirement experiences, sports coaching, dance, movement, sport sociology, and well-being.
Contents
1. Becoming, Knowing, and Coaching: A Journey through Skilled Movement, Discipline, and Resonance. Christian Thue Bjørndal. 2. When Our Survival Is Not Given: Arts and Athletics of Remaining Alive. Nathan Viktor Fawaz and Danielle Peers. 3. Toward More Ethical and Sustainable Sporting and Coaching Practices. Göran Gerdin. 4. 'Train Don't Strain!': Mastering Frailty in an Ageing Running Body. P. David Howe. 5. Imagining a Yogic War Machine: Possibilities for Thinking Differently in Practice, Research, and Facilitation. Allison Jeffrey. 6. Permeating Change as a Coach Educator Post-Retirement: From Disciplined to a Heterotopia as a Technology of Self. Clayton Kuklick and Gonzalo Obando. 7. Reflections on Skilled Dance Performance: Mapping the Materialized Body in Motion. Pirkko Markula. 8. Arlene and the Machines: One Triathlete's Mechanic Wrestles. Arlene McGann and Joseph Mills. 9. Moving Bodies = Learning Bodies. Emily Noton. 10. Conditioned Spaces, Conditioned Thoughts? Exploring Practice Architectures and the Mediation of Reflexivity in Performance Sport. Simon Phelan.
