Publications

Book

Dancing Presence: Ecologies of Embodiment in Contemporary Dance Practices

(Routledge)

forthcoming

Book Chapters

An embodied narrative perspective on transforming trauma and illness experience

Sarah Pini & Lilian Wilde

In Narrative Medicine: Trauma and Ethics (2024). A. J. Rasmussen & M. Sodemann (Eds.) pp. 15-26. Vernon Press.

On the edge of undoing: Ecologies of agency in Body Weather

Sarah Pini

In Collaborative Embodied Performance: Ecologies of Skill (2022). K. Bicknell & J. Sutton (Eds.) pp. 35–52. Bloomsbury.

Trasformare l’esperienza della malattia: pratiche di danza e movimento co-creativo per giovani pazienti oncologici in Danimarca

Sarah Pini

In Antropologia e Oncologia (forthcoming). I. Quaranta, & A. Lupo (Eds.) Argolibri.

Transmitting Passione: Emio Greco and the Ballet National de Marseille

Sarah Pini & John Sutton

In The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet (2021). K. Farrugia-Kriel & J. N. Jensen (Eds.) pp. 594-612. Oxford University Press.

Journal Articles

Cognitive Ecologies of Presence(S) in Three Different Dance Forms

Sarah Pini

In Nordic Journal of Dance - practice, education and research (2023) Vol. 14 Issue 1, pages 6-19.

Situating the gaze: Towards an embodied ecological approach to screendance

Lux Eterna & Sarah Pini

In Working Titles – Journal of Practice Based Research (2023) Vol. 2, pages 1-14.

Skilled performance in Contact Improvisation: The importance of interkinaesthetic embodied sense of agency

Catherine Deans & Sarah Pini

In Synthese (2022) Vol. 200 Issue 2, [139].

Synchronous vs. Non-Synchronous Imitation: Using Dance to Explore Interpersonal Coordination During Observational Learning

Cassandra Crone, Lilian Rigoli, Gaurav Patil, Sarah Pini, John Sutton, Rachel Kallen & Micheal Richardson

In Human Movement Science (2021) Vol. 76, [102776].

Expanding empathic and perceptive awareness: The experience of attunement in Contact Improvisation and Body Weather

Sarah Pini & Catherine Deans

In Performance Research (2021) Vol. 26 Issue 3, pages 106-113.

Un approccio ecologico cognitivo alla presenza scenica nelle arti della performance

Sarah Pini

In Antropologia e Teatro. Rivista di Studi (2021) Vol. 12 Issue 13, pages. 88-108.

Alternative approaches to the classical model of stage presence in performing arts: A review

Sarah Pini

In Humanity (2018) Special Issue: Making a Mark, Vol. 9, pages 1-14.

Re-tracing the encounter: Interkinaesthetic forms of knowledge in Contact Improvisation

Sarah Pini, Doris McIlwain, & John Sutton

In Antropologia e Teatro. Rivista di Studi (2016) Vol. 7, pages 225-243.

Dance & Performance

Auto-ethnography and ‘chimeric-thinking’: A phenomenological reconsideration of illness and alterity

Sarah Pini

In The Australian Journal of Anthropology (2022) Vol. 33 Issue 1, pages 34-46.

Winner of Best Article Prize Australian Anthropological Society (AAS) 2022

Performing Illness: A dialogue about an invisibly disabled dancing body

Sarah Pini & Kate Maguire-Rosier

In Frontiers in Psychology (2021). Vol. 12 [566520].

Resisting the ‘patient’ body: A phenomenological account

Sarah Pini & Ruggero Pini

In Journal of Embodied Research (2019) Vol. 2 Issue 1: 2 (20:05).

Transformation through Practice: A Dialogical Exploration of Embodiment and Presence in Arts-Based Qualitative Research with Self and Others

Martin Høybye & Sarah Pini

In Qualitative Inquiry (2025) Vol. 31 Issue 8-9, pages 829-838.

Dance in Post-Treatment Cancer Survivorship: An Integrative Narrative Review of Evidence, Practice, and Embodied Agency

Ditte Egholm & Sarah Pini

In Arts & Health (2026)

Being Invited into Another: Transforming Bodily Awareness through Co-creative Movement after Cancer Illness

Martin Høybye, Sarah Pini, Marie Andersen & Mette Terp Høybye

In Medical Humanities (2026) Vol. 52 Issue 1, pages 68-77.

Dance & Illness