Embracing, Disclosing and Accepting Messiness in Research Practice: What Can Dance Science Learn from Somatics?

There is opportunity in dance medicine and science research to openly discuss both the positionality of the researchers and the decision-making processes that frame the work. In this paper, somatic principles are used as metaphors for the process of "practicing" and "doing" dance medicine and science research, to explore how researcher subjectivity and reflexivity might be embodied in dance medicine and science research culture more broadly.