Articles

In Its Purest Form: a rare insight into the work of Joan Skinner

Agis, Gaby  & Moran, Joe (2002), Foundation for Community Dance, p. 20-22.

You can’t make a leaf to grow by stretching it : some notes on the philosophical implications of Skinner Releasing Technique

Alexander, Kirsty (2001), in Performance Journal 18 Winter/ Spring, Centre for Movement Research in New York, p. 8-9.

Unravelling the Dance: an exploration of dance’s underdeveloped relationship with its kinaesthetic nature

Alexander, Kirsty (2003), paper presented at the New Connectivity Conference, London: Laban.

Regarding the Nature of Process in the Skinner Releasing Technique 

Davidson, Robert (1979).

Towards Attunement as Research Method in Poetic Forensics Project

Daza-Paris, Livia

Unearthing Undercover: Intimations relating campesinos, the more-than-human and the politically disappeared in my art practice.

Daza-Paris, Livia

Unexpected Witness: An Artistic Practice from a ‘plurality of ways of knowing’ surrounding political disappearance.

Daza-Paris, Livia

Releasing into Process: Joan Skinner and the use of imagery in the teaching of dance 

Davis, Bridget. (1970). Coventry University, UK. Available to purchase via this link.

An action of orientation – Skinner Releasing Technique in reflective practice

Sally E. Dean and Julie Nathanielsz, (2017)

An Image That’s Alive: Conversation on the image worlds of Skinner Releasing Technique & Amerta Movement

Sally E. Dean, Margit Galanter, Lily Kiara, and Julie Nathanielsz (2020)

Skinner Releasing Technique: dancing from within, in Journal of Dance and Somatic

Emslie, Manny (2009). Volume 1 Number 2, p. 169-175.

Skinner Releasing Technique: A Movement and Dance Practice (Paperback)

Emslie, Manny (2021). Triarchy Press

Releasing Sensibilities: Joan Skinner in conversation with Gaby Agis

Hobson, Will (1997). Volume 13 No.3, Spring 1997.

 An (incomplete) manifesto for gardening as an EcoSomatic Practice

Hudson, Polly (2024) in Journal for Dance and Somatic Practices. Volume 16, Issue 1-2, Pg 29 – 47

 PhD Thesis: Practice and Process – Skinner Releasing Technique and Making Dance for Performance and on Screen

Hudson, Polly (2017) Coventry University, UK.

What is Process?

Metcalf, Sally (2003).

Quiet Unfolding: Skinner Releasing Technique in Britain

Moran, Joe (2006).

‘The Kinaesthetic Imagination’, interview with Joan Skinner, Contact Quarterly

Neuhaus, Bettina (2010). In French in De l’une à l’autre: composer, apprendre et partager en mouvements, Bruxelles: Contredanse, 2011

Learning to Dance in the 21st Century:  Skinner Releasing in a New Materialist Frame

Lizzy Le Quesne (2018) in Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices 2018. Issue 10.1 ‘Pedagogy and Process: Somatic Informed Education in a Postmodern Era’ 

An Intricate Field. In search of freedom and togetherness: inter-subjectivity and materiality in shared space.

Lizzy Le Quesne (2015) Chapter in Attending to Movement, Ed Natalie Garret-Brown, Kirsty Alexander, Sarah Whatley, Triarchy Press 2015

Travelling from the middle through the middle, paper presented at the New Connectivity Conference

Skelton, Rebecca (2003).

Exploring Counter Balance: Aligning the roles of Dance Artist, Educator and Researcher within Higher Education.

Skelton, Rebecca (2002).

The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of body-mind disciplines

Skinner, Joan (1999). Rosen Publishing Group, p. 265-267.

Skinner Releasing Technique: Imagery and its Application to Movement Training, in Contact Quarterly

Skinner, Joan, Bridget Davis, Robert Davidson, Kris Wheeler & Sally Metcalf (1979). Volume V.1 Fall 1979.

Mind Your Body

Skura, Stephanie (2006),  in Dance Magazine, June 2006.

Slowing and Stilling: Gardening and Releasing

Hudson, Polly (2019). Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices Volume 11 Number 2

We Reap What We Sow, embodiment and urban allotment gardening

Hudson, Polly (2021). Ruuku Journal (2021) Part 1: autumn- late winter.