The presence of absences: Unconscious performances and muscle memories in Pilates

• DOI: 10.1386/jdsp.7.1.31_1
• Publication Date: 2015-03-18T23:58:07Z
• Authors: Sarah W. Holmes

Abstract This article synthesizes the scholarly areas of dance studies, somatic research and kinaesiology, to illustrate how Pilates history continuously overlooks values culturally transmitted from body-to-body through practice. In this process, I suggest that not all embodied memories have liberatory effects. could be potentially problematic, especially with respect historical marginalization invisiblization non-white bodies. maintain by making goal an ‘unconscious’ therefore unreflective performance its exercise, it perpetuates specific cultural behavioural values.