Russell Patrick Brown

Feeling Impact (eBook, ePUB)

A Timedancer's Guide to Impact-Driven Dance

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What does it mean to feel impact in dance?

In Feeling Impact: A Timedancer's Study of Irish Step Dance, Dr Russell Patrick Brown reimagines Irish step dance through the felt intelligence of the body. Moving beyond the dazzling speed of footwork and the familiar sound of hard shoes striking the floor, this groundbreaking study explores how dancers experience impact as vibration, resonance, pressure and even pain-and how those sensations carry memory, identity and history.

Drawing on practice-based research, queer and disabled embodiment, and comparative work with Flamenco, Tap and Ballet Folklórico, Brown develops a radical new framework for understanding Irish step dance as an embodied archive. Here, impact is not only technique or spectacle: it is a language of survival, a rhythm of resistance and a politics of feeling.

Two original performance case studies, The Querist (2017) and AngelAI (2023), illustrate this impact-driven approach in motion, while personal reflections from Brown's position as a queer, Romani, disabled artist-scholar illuminate the intersections of race, ability and cultural identity within global dance practice.

Written in vivid, accessible prose, "Feeling Impact" expands the conversation on Irish step dance, percussive forms, and decolonial performance. For dancers, choreographers, scholars, and anyone drawn to the somatic or spiritual dimensions of art, this book offers a bold invitation: to sense the world through impact, and to dance time itself differently.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rustle Media LLC
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798218862305
• Artikelnr.: 76145337

Autorenporträt

Dr. Russell Patrick Brown is a Romani dance writer, artist-scholar, and technologist whose work explores how rhythm, embodiment, and cultural memory shape human experience. A queer and disabled practitioner trained in Irish step dance, Flamenco, and somatic practices, he develops impact-driven approaches to movement that center the felt intelligence of the body. Brown holds a PhD in Dance from the University of Limerick, an MA from New York University, and a BA in Music. His research and performance practice weave together ethnography, decolonial theory, and Romani epistemologies to reimagine dance as an embodied archive of survival, identity, and resistance.