Research Topics and Practices:

Embodiment practices, performance, arts-led research methods, arts in sites, arts in therapy.

Ecological arts and design practices; coloured pigments; making, movement and material design.

Arts-led PhD Research University of Plymouth, Dartington College of Arts (2007), partly sponsored by Dartington College of Arts and supervised by Prof. Dr. Edward Cowie.

The MoverWitness exchange (MWE) is a pedagogical method that frames observations within a participative and performative model of a ‘mover’ and a ‘witness’ and can be applied within a diverse range of disciplines. It enables collaboration, learning and research in the fields of dance pedagogy, performance arts, arts pedagogy and arts therapies.

The trajectory of my PhD research (Dartington College of Arts/University of Plymouth 2007) was to deconstruct, theorise and visualise a practice known as 'Authentic Movement'. (Pallaro, Whitehouse, Chodorow, Adler, 1999, 2001) from the field of Dance Movement Psychotherapy. My visualisations, for instance through the development and use of ‘camera-witnessing’, and my theoretical analysis of context and content facilitated a methodological reassessement of this practice's workings. Re-framed as a phenomenological approach for emotionally intelligent, empathetic exchanges across different ways of perceiving and understanding, MWE facilitates aesthetic perceptions and reflective analysis of world and self.

Research-related images and films can be found on the Art and Movement pages of this website. MWE as a method and methodology continues to emerge in relationship to different fields.

Publications:

In Progress:

Goldhahn, E.: Shared Habitats: Movers and Witnesses, a new, edited version of the PhD research first published in 2007 (book publication, expected Sommer 2010)

To be published 2010:
Goldhahn, E.: Tanzpädagogische Aspekte im MoverWitness exchange (MWE), GTF Jahrbuch 2010.

Goldhahn, E.: The MoverWitness Exchange: Interdisciplinary Pedagogy and Communication Tool, at 'Watching Dance: Kinesthetic Empathy', International Conference, Manchester April 2010.

Goldhahn, E.: The Pleasure of Finding, A Perspective on Acts of Finding in Movement and in Visual Art Informed by Object-Relation Theory, in: Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy, Routledge, London. 

Published:

Goldhahn, E. (2010), Sculptural Installations on the Theme of Obliteration: a Response to Themes embodied in the MoverWitnesss Exchange, in Formamente, International Journal on Digital Future, Volume 1/2010), Universita degli Studi "Guglielmo Marconi", Rome, Italy

Goldhahn, E. (2009), ‘Authentisch'-ein un-sinniger Begriff ?, Zeitschrift für Tanztherapie -Körperpsychotherapie und Kreativtherapie- , Heft 29/30/2009, 16. Jahrgang, Claus Richter Verlag, Cologne, ISSN 0946-9338

Goldhahn, E. (2009, Published online: 23/09/2009), Visualising Mover and Witness: Arts-Based Research, e-motion, Journal of the Association for Dance Movement Psychotherapy (ADMP) U.K., Autumn 2009, Vol XIX No.3, Page 9 - 15, ISSN 1460-1281, available on http://www.admt.org.uk/emotion.html

Goldhahn, E. (2009, Published online: 18/03/2009) Is Authentic a Meaningful Name for the Practice of Authentic Movement? American Journal of Dance Therapy: Volume 31, Issue 1 (2009), Page 53-64. DOI 10.1007/s10465-009-9064-4, available on: http://springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s10465-009-9064-4

Goldhahn, E. (2009, Published online: 20/01/2009) Sculptural Installations on the Theme of Obliteration: a Response to Themes embodied in the MoverWitnesss Exchange (Authentic Movement), The International Journal of the Creative Arts in Interdisciplinary Practice (formerly: The Canadian Creative Arts in Health, Training and Education Journal, CCAHTE). Journal Issue #7, The Creative Response. Available on: http://www.ijcaip.com/archives/CCAHTE-Journal-7-Goldhahn.html

Goldhahn, E. (2007), Shared Habitats, The MoverWitness Paradigm, PhD, University of Plymouth and Dartington College of Arts. (For more information go to: http://www.admt.org.uk/researchphd.html#EG  The full thesis is available from the respective university libraries or directly from myself as PDF files)

Goldhahn, E., Lipp, N. Conference conveners in collaboration with Tanzkultur Universität Bern (2005) and Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung (GTF, Society for Dance Research), E-motion in Motion, Internationaler Kongress der Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung.

Goldhahn, E. (2003) Authentic Movement and Science, A Moving Journal, Vol 10, No. 3 pp.12-15. (Issue available on http://www.movingjournal.org/contents.html)

 

Lectures and Seminars (Selection, for up to date information, go to Seminar Blog):

Camera-Witnessing, strategies for the documentation of performance in arts-based research. (TEAK, 2010).

Shared Habitats, PhD Research (Artist Talk, Theater Academy, Helsinki, 2010).

Blaues Bett, die Geschichte eines Bildes (Artist Talk, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, 2010, zur Eröffnung des Kurses “Ethik in der Seelsorge”).

Dance Pedagogical Aspects of the MoverWitness exchange, Von der Mystik der Discipline of Authentic Movement zur Vermittlung von Bewegungsimprovisation Conference Paper at Tanz vermittelt-Tanz vermitteln (Symposium der Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung e.V. in Kooperation mit der Fakultät für Sportwissenschaft der TU München, 2009).

Intermediale Ansätze und Methoden in der Kunsttherapie: Seminar in Embodimentansätzen für die University of Applied Sciences (Ottersberg, Bremen, 2009).

MoverWitness Exchange - Über eigene und andere Kunst sprechen: Wahrnehmung, Wertschätzung und Kommunikation (Kulturbüro Rheinland-Pfalz, Walpoden Akademie, Mainz, 2009).

Authentic Movement and the Buddhist practice of Generosity and Eila Goldhahn: Seminars in the MoverWitness Exchange and artistic reflection on video (Retreat with Marcia Plevin: Pettu, Finland, 2009).

Vom Wesen des Findens: Object Trouve und emotionale Prozesse. Vortrag und Seminar (University of Applied Sciences Ottersberg, 2009). Available online: http://www.kunsttherapieforschung.de/downloads/index.php

What can be learnt from the MoverWitness Exchange for the Development of Gesture-Based Human-Computer Interfaces? (8th International Gesture Workshop, Bielefeld, Germany, 2009).

The Pleasure of Finding, A Theme in Training Therapeutic Skills across the Arts Therapies, performative lecture with illustrations of  art works (Universität zu Köln, 2009).

The MoverWitness exchange and Release Dance: training for actors and opera singers (Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Graz, 2009).

Kreative Ansätze in der Sozialen Arbeit - Bedarf, Methoden, Spannungsfelder, Lecture-Seminar, (Evangelische Fachhochschule, Berlin, Zehlendorf 2008).

Positionierung und Visionen, Performative Lecture including Films, (Hochschule für Kunsttherapie Nürtingen, Stuttgart, 2008).

Film as Art, discussion and film screenings: Slapton, Graffitti and Egg Time (The Watershed, Bristol, 2005).

Transitions through Authentic Movement: Artist-Therapist, lecture and workshop (Danshoegscholen, Stockholm, 2004).

Transitions through Authentic Movement: Artist-Therapist, performative presentation with art films (ADMT Research Conference, Bristol, 2004).

The Future of Dance Movement Therapy: Challenges and Opportunities for the School of Psychology and Therapeutic Studies: Authentic Movement and Post-Modern Constructivism? (Roehampton University, London, 2003).

Authentic Movement and Goethean Science, seminar presentation together with Heather Thoma (Festival for Dance and Biology, University of Toronto, 2002).

Jungian Psychology and Authentic Movement (The Luscombe Centre for Jungian Studies, Devon, UK, 2000)

Publications on material design:

Goldhahn, E. (2006), Design and Patent registration , GB 0611950.7 und GB 0711601 (UK).

Weller, M., Dann, S. in collaboration with Goldhahn, E. regarding designs using coloured pigments (23 June 2005 to 22 December 2007) Creating a Colourful Life, EPSRC Reference: EP/C52554X/1

Westgate, A. (1999) in collaboration with Goldhahn, E., designs using coloured pigments, The Home Colour Directory, The Ivy Press Limited, London.