Physical Listening: A dancer’s interspecies journey

PHYSICAL LISTENING, A Dancer’s Interspecies Journey is a unique book that explores the nonverbal synergy between human and equine on a physical, mental, emotional and intuitive level and offers an expansive toolkit for communication and creative decision - making. Author JoAnna Mendl Shaw is an internationally recognized dancer, teacher, choreographer, educator and arts advocate. Shaw’s interspecies performances with dancers and horses have been produced throughout the United States and in Europe. In this book she describes in detail the evolution of her creation process with dancers and horses and the development of a PHYSICAL LISTENING practice informed by hours of natural horsemanship training and studio research. Follow step-by step improvisation scores and explore an expansive repertory of transformative embodied experiences. Enriched with over 450 full color photographs and illustrations. This book is for dancers, choreographers and all movement processionals, actors, directors, equestrians, therapists and leadership trainers. Shaw’s insights into communication and strategies for effective leadership will deepen your capacity for embodied awareness. Her personal choreographic trajectory will entice you into fearless creative process.