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This is dance training, pedagogy and art that is related to what is variously termed somatics, somatic studies, or somatic education (Bateson 2009). The terms denote a field of study and movement practices, which combine different learning methods to foster awareness of the body within its environment. Some of the general goals of the related practices are to develop individuals’ sensory and perceptual sensitivity as well as to increase flexibility in their movement skills for a variety of personal options to act in the world to emerge (Fortin 2009).