Moving Toward Embodiment w/ Dr. Glenna Batson

How do we define embodiment? How does the study of neuroscience and dance inform practice and vice versa? How might engaging in these inquiries translate into better quality of life for all of us as we age?

In today’s episode of Dancing into Brain Health, our guest is dancer/researcher Dr. Glenna Batson whose multi-decade long career has aligned dance with critical somatic education, human movement science, embodied cognitive neuroscience and neuro-rehabilitation.

To learn more about Dr. Glenna Batson, visit her website www.thfold.net  or follow her on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/glenna-batson-3b1a5a82/ and Instagram @berylgb.                

Read some of Dr. Batson’s work:

Latest Book Publication (Just released – March 2025 – Epub and Hardback): Susan Sentler & Glenna Batson (eds) artmaking as embodied enquiry: entering the f/old: https://www.intellectbooks.com/artmaking-as-embodied-enquiry

Batson G, Blaesing BE, Nogueira Haas A, Hugenschmidt CE, DeSouza JFX. Dance, Embodied Agency and Neuroplasticity in Aging. Ebook, Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. 2024. https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/55751/dance-embodied-agency-and-neuroplasticity-in-aging/magazine

Glenna Batson with Margaret Wilson – Body and Mind in Motion – Dance and Neuroscience in Conversation (2014)

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/B/bo18074343.html

Batson G. Human Origami: The Embryo as a Folding Life Continuum. Journal of Prenatal and Life Sciences. http://www.journalprenatalife.com/index.php/prenatal/article/view/Human%20Origami

Batson G, Hugenschmidt CE, Soriano CT (2016). Verbal Auditory Cueing of Improvisational Dance: A Proposed Method for Training Agency in Parkinson’s Disease. Frontiers in Neurology. ⁠https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4756105/

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This episode of Dancing into Brain Health was edited and produced by me, Magda Kaczmarska and Hilary Brown-Istrefi. The music for this show is the title cut from the album, Critical Path by Joe Venegoni and Carl Weingarten.