1st Edition

Dance and Organization Integrating Dance Theory and Methods into the Study of Management

By Brigitte Biehl Copyright 2017
204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

204 Pages
by Routledge

Dance and Organisation is the first comprehensive work to integrate dance theory and methods into the study of management, which have developed an interest in the arts and the humanities. Dance represents dynamics and change and puts the moving body at the centre, which has been ignored and oppressed by traditional management theory. ‘Being’ a leader however also means to ‘move’ like one, and... Read more

1. Dance and Organisation Studies

2. Dance as a Metaphor

3. Kinaesthetic Politics (Gender)

4. Kinaesthetic Empathy (Leadership)

5. Choreography (Collaboration and Space)

6. Kinaesthetic Training (Arts-Based Interventions)

7. Dance as a Method (Research)

Biography

Brigitte Biehl is a Professor at SRH Hochschule der Populären Künste hpdk, Berlin, Germany, and a Visiting Fellow of Essex Business School, the University of Essex, UK.

"This is a must-have book for anyone applying the arts to management, human resource management, or training. It has excellent ways of doing feminist studies in the social sciences"David M. Boje, New Mexico State University, USA