Project description

This Monograph contributes new knowledge on how meaning-making and experiential value are created in and through the movement praxes of dance, sports and martial arts activities. Combining phenomenology and ethnographical fieldwork, it is pioneering in the way analyses of movement praxes are used to push towards and broaden the phenomenological concepts in use for the analysis of meaning-making.

Short bio

Susanne Ravn is Professor and Head of the Research Unit Movement, Culture and Society  at the Department of Sports Science and Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark. In her research she focuses on embodied experiences and movement practices within sports, dance, martial art and health by integrating phenomenology and ethnographical fieldwork. She is the author of several articles and chapters across the fields of phenomenology, sociology, dance, and sports - and co-editor of Philosophy of Improvisation – interdisciplinary perspectives on theory and practice, Routledge (2021).