1st Edition

Practice Research through Creative Bodies Perspectives on Embodied Inquiry

Edited By Caroline Frizell, Marina Rova Copyright 2026
208 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

208 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This anthology brings a focus to practice research in which moving bodies and creative processes are imperatives. It brings together a diverse range of researchers and performers who present innovative research through single authored and co-authored projects that trouble the notion that there are limited ways of researching and performing. As the anthology unfolds, readers are invited to... Read more

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

List of contributors

 

Chapter 1

Can we go a bit slower? Ethical meanderings through practice research: creating knowledge through and towards cultures of care.

Caroline Frizell and Marina Rova

 

Chapter 2

The entangled research team: research inquiry through collective and diffractive engagement with data.

Caroline Frizell, Juliet Diener, Mark Taylor and Nicola Fay Weston

 

Chapter 3

Creative Voices Collective: Empowering Communities Through Art and Expression.

Esme Green

 

Chapter 4

Embodied investigation and performance activism as a catalyst for change.

Dagmara Bilon

 

Chapter 5

Dear IZZI , Hi Mum.

A soft approach to a movement practice between mother and daughter.

Sarah Black-Frizell

 

Chapter 6

Exploring radical self-care and community empowerment through The Body Room

Marina Rova, Emma Shapiro, Katherine Brown

 

Chapter 7

Processes Evolving in the Wood Wide Web of Be-coming Tree

O.Pen Be (AKA Penelope Best), Orcid, Danièle J Minns and  Jatun Risba

 

Chapter 8

A journey through personal landscapes: An autoethnographic study of the embodied sense of place

Johanna Rönkkö

 

Chapter 9

Dwelling within the body’s forgotten and neglected garden. Have you been on your bench today?

Sue Curtis

 

Chapter 10

aRTSjAM. A therapists’ collective for embodied processing and being

Cornelia Bent, Céline Butté, Marina Rova, Geoffery Unkovich and Diana Whelan Porter

 

Chapter 11

Opening Doors to Peer Supervision

Hannah Murdoch and Sue Curtis

 

Chapter 12

In Search of Existential Joy

Allyson Vuli

 

Chapter 13

Pushing beyond limits and realigning together

Lorna Hauff

 

Chapter 14

Weaving the threads of trainer/trainee perspectives on embodied relational research during training; a tapestry of personal and communal transformation.

Yeva Feldman and Annie Dearnley

 

Chapter 15

Connection through separation: negotiating boundaries in dance movement psychotherapy with psychosis

Klaudia Wittmann

 

Chapter 16

Living the questions

Nicola Fay Weston

 

Chapter 17

Scratching Beneath the Surface: In Search of Belonging

Claire Burrell, Alice Sara and Emma Teixidor-Creighton

 

Chapter 18

Echoes across the generations; the relationship between mover and witness in audience responses to an autobiographical performance

Ditty Dokter

 

Chapter 19

Mapping the lived experience of a cultural nomad through relational stories that move

Marina Rova

 

Chapter 20

Precarious health: Moving bodies and affirmative ethics

Amanda Light

 

Chapter 21

Research and lived-experience; multi-directional spillage

Caroline Frizell

 

Epilogue

Caroline Frizell and Marina Rova

 

Index

Biography

Caroline Frizell, PhD, UKCP, RADMP, Dip. Sup. SAP is a research active, Senior Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London. She works as a private practitioner and consultant both indoors and in outdoor environments. Caroline brings principles of eco-feminism to her work as researcher, writer, educator and practitioner.

Marina Rova PhD, MA, PGDip, BA Hons, SAP Dip is a Senior Lecturer, PhD supervisor and researcher at Goldsmiths University of London and clinical supervisor in private practice. She continues to explore creative inquiry as practice through collaborative writing and research projects.