Books by Cheryl Pallant

Based upon the author's lifetime practices as a dancer, poet and teacher, this innovative approach to developing body awareness focuses on achieving self-discovery and well-being through movement, mindfulness and writing. Written from a holistic (rather than dualistic) view of the mind-body duality, discussion and exercises draw on dance, psychology, neuroscience and meditation to guide personal exploration and creative expression.

In most forms of dancing, performers carry out their steps with a distance that keeps them from colliding with each other. This book draws upon the author's experience and research to explain the art of contact improvisation, in which dance partners propel movement by physical contact.