{"product_id":"feeling-impact-a-timedancers-guide-to-impact-driven-dance-hardcover","title":"Feeling Impact: A Timedancer's Guide to Impact-Driven Dance - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRussell Patrick Brown\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat does it mean to feel impact in dance?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eFeeling Impact: A Timedancer's Study of Irish Step Dance\u003c\/em\u003e, Dr Russell Patrick Brown reimagines Irish step dance through the felt intelligence of the body. Moving beyond the dazzling speed of footwork and the familiar sound of hard shoes striking the floor, this groundbreaking study explores how dancers experience impact as vibration, resonance, pressure and even pain-and how those sensations carry memory, identity and history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on practice-based research, queer and disabled embodiment, and comparative work with Flamenco, Tap and Ballet Folklórico, Brown develops a radical new framework for understanding Irish step dance as an embodied archive. Here, impact is not only technique or spectacle: it is a language of survival, a rhythm of resistance and a politics of feeling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo original performance case studies, \u003cem\u003eThe Querist\u003c\/em\u003e (2017) and \u003cem\u003eAngelAI\u003c\/em\u003e (2023), illustrate this impact-driven approach in motion, while personal reflections from Brown's position as a queer, Romani, disabled artist-scholar illuminate the intersections of race, ability and cultural identity within global dance practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in vivid, accessible prose, \"Feeling Impact\" expands the conversation on Irish step dance, percussive forms, and decolonial performance. For dancers, choreographers, scholars, and anyone drawn to the somatic or spiritual dimensions of art, this book offers a bold invitation: to sense the world through impact, and to dance time itself differently.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 06, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46397772136583,"sku":"9798218825201","price":32.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/XIWkWzUrZe9798218825201.webp?v=1793562608","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/feeling-impact-a-timedancers-guide-to-impact-driven-dance-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}