Arousing Sense

Tomie Hahn is professor emerita of performance ethnology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is the author of Sensational Knowledge: Embodying Culture through Japanese Dance.

CoverTitleCopyrightMenuList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsAuthor's Note1. Impulses2. Making Sense3. How to Use This Book—A Quick ReviewOrienting Ritualthe reticent composerClay in SpaceShifting Point of ViewBonding in Parallel, a Writing CollaborationScent of TimeStory ExchangePareidolia CrawlSound, MovingRepeat That!Broad Strokes, Then DetailsSensory FocusingTraces, PresenceTraces, TouchTraces, SurfaceReaching OutNow!BandingRolling TimeCircles, a Sound and Movement ExplorationInner Voice-OversBody PartsForming TimeThrough the PortalCuriosWearablesMe +Mending, a Recipe for OneDictionary RitualSell itHybrid-o-phonesThe Art of FollowingThe Art of Following—Movement, Sound, PresenceThe Art of Following—TactileRecipe as FormOne WordBoundaries and LimitationsSound and MemoryListen, as a Bird in FlightRecipe for KimikoFreewritingThe Size of Your Misconceptions by Edlyn TerrazasExcavating Time by Lorelei Wagner and Tomie HahnLemon Memories by Abdullah Alshehri“Now!” Recipe Responses17 Years as a Beat Cop by Michael SchriderBeyond Realism by Amelia FarquharsonOn Being an Eternal Scout by Katherine Tyrol8 Cordial ClosureReferencesIndexBack cover