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- Miyahara, M. and Mirfin-Veitch, B. (2023) ‘Developmental Passages to Dance Improvisation: An Interpretive Phenomenological Study of Lived and Living Conscious Experiences’. Research in Dance Education 24 (2), 173–192 (added 19 July 2024)
- Midgelow, V.L. (2015) ‘Some Fleshy Thinking: Improvisation, Experience, Perception’. in The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater [online] ed. by George-Graves, N. Oxford University Press, 109–122. available from <https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/28296/chapter/214500555> [4 June 2024] (added 19 July 2024)
- Doughty, S. (2019) ‘I Notice That I’m Noticing …’. in The Oxford Handbook of Improvisation in Dance [online] Oxford University Press, 118–134. available from <https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/28277/chapter/214417352> [17 May 2024] (added 19 June 2024)
- Massimo (2022) ‘“Let the Motion Happen”. The Emergence of Dance from the Felt-Bodily Relationship with the World’. Studi Di Estetica 151 (added 19 June 2024)
- De Spain, K. (2003) ‘The Cutting Edge of Awareness’, in Taken By Surprise: A Dance Improvisation Reader. Wesleyan University Press (added 19 June 2024)
- Blom, Lynne Anne, and L. Tarin Chaplin. The Moment Of Movement: Dance Improvisation. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1988. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt5hjrqz (added 16 May 2024)
- Nagrin, Daniel. Dance and the specific image: improvisation. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994 (added 16 May 2024)
- Bergamin, Joshua A. ‘Being-in-the-Flow: Expert Coping as beyond Both Thought and Automaticity’. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 16, no. 3 (July 2017): 403–24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-016-9463-1. (added 9 May 2024)
- Legrand, Dorothée, and Susanne Ravn. ‘Perceiving Subjectivity in Bodily Movement: The Case of Dancers’. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 8, no. 3 (September 2009): 389–408. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-009-9135-5. (added 1 May 2024)
- Foultier, Anna Petronella. ‘Letting the Body Find Its Way: Skills, Expertise, and Bodily Reflection’. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 22, no. 4 (September 2023): 799–820. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-022-09838-2. (added 1 May 2024)
- De Spain, Kent. Landscape of the Now: A Topography of Movement Improvisation. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, 2014 (added 24 April 2024)
- Foster, S.L. (2002) Dances That Describe Themselves: The Improvised Choreography of Richard Bull. Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press (added 17 April 2024)
- Spira, R. (2008) The Transparency of Things: Contemplating the Nature of Experience. Salisbury, U.K.: Non-Duality Press (added 17 April 2024)
- Sheets-Johnstone, M. (1981) ‘Thinking in Movement’. The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 39 (4), 399 (added 10 April 2024)
- Fraleigh, S. (2000) ‘Consciousness Matters’. Dance Research Journal 32 (1), 54–62 (added 10 April 2024)
- Buttingsrud, C. ‘Bodies in skilled performance: how dancers reflect through the living body’. Synthese 199, 7535–7554 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03127-2
- Josipovic, Z. and Miskovic, V. (2020) ‘Nondual Awareness and Minimal Phenomenal Experience’. Frontiers in Psychology 11, 2087 https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02087/full.
- McLeod, S. (2020) ‘Dance Improvisation through Authentic Movement: A Practice of Discernment’. Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices 12 (2), 191–205 https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/jdsp_00023_1 (added 21 March 2024)
- Metzinger, T. (2019). ‘Minimal phenomenal experience: the ARAS-model theory: steps toward a minimal model of conscious experience as such’. philosophie.fb05.uni-mainz.de/files/2019/04/MPE_discussion_paper_March_2019.pdf (added 12 March 2024)
- Millman, L.S.M., Terhune, D.B., Hunter, E.C.M., and Orgs, G. (2021) ‘Towards a Neurocognitive Approach to Dance Movement Therapy for Mental Health: A Systematic Review’. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy 28 (1), 24–38
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