Introduction

Abstract

The age of the monolithic theory has passed and so this book emerges from my own passionate politics by responding to the feminist call for advances in conversations across disciplines (Butler 2004).¹ As such, it offers an interdisciplinary blend of dance movement psychotherapy (DMP), performance and feminism in an attempt to engage with the complexities and multiplicities of what it means to be human. After all, being human may be described as a quintessentially interdisciplinary process and one where, as I hope to make clear in this book, we literally embody both nature (our biological body) and nurture (our socially constructed body).