Jill Green, Ph.D., conducts research and teaches somatics, body studies, pedagogy, and research. Dr. Green’s writing is widely disseminated. Her work is published in a number of journals including Dance Research Journal; Research in Dance Education; Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices; Journal of Dance Education; Arts and Learning; Impulse; and Frontiers: Journal of Women’s Studies. In addition, she wrote chapters in a number of scholarly texts. She is the recipient of a number of teaching awards and received a Fulbright Scholarship, allowing her to teach and investigate dance pedagogy, somatics, and body studies in Finland. She was invited to present her research in the United States, Canada, Finland, Taiwan, South Africa, Brazil, and Japan. As a former co-editor of Dance Research Journal, Dr. Green brought interest in dance education to the larger field of dance studies. Additionally, she edited the first special edition about somatics in the Journal of Dance Education. Currently, she is working on a book about qualitative research in dance education.
Selected Publications
Green, J. (2016). Social somatic theory: Issues and applications in dance pedagogy. FAP
Revista Cientifica, (Jul/Dez. 2015), 65-76.
Green, J. (2015a). Moving in, out, and beyond the tensions between experience and social
construction in somatic theory. Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices, 7(1), 7-19.
Green, J. (2015b). Somatic sensitivity and reflexivity as validity tools in qualitative
research. Research in Dance Education, 16(1), 67-79
Green, J. (2015c). Postmodern spirituality?: A personal narrative. In Williamson, A.
(ed.), Dance, Somatics and Spiritualities: Contemporary Sacred Narrative.
Leading Edge Voices in the field. (195-208), Coventry, UK: Intellect.
Green, J. (2012). Kinetic Awareness® for women with breast cancer: Somatic movement
as an aid to treatment. Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices, 4(2), 211-232.
Green, J. (2008). Les politiques et éthiques de la santé en éducation de la danse au
Etats-Unis. In Fortin, S. (ed.), Les politiques et éthiques de la santé en éducation
de la danse au Etats-Unis, (pp. 169-180) Presses de l’Université du Québec à
Montréal, Collection Santé.
Green, J (2007). Student bodies: Dance pedagogy and the Soma. In Bresler, L. (ed.),
International Handbook on Research in Arts Education. (pp. 1119-1132), The
Netherlands: Springer.
Green, J. (2006). Kinetic Awareness TM Pedagogy: Elaine Summers and second
generation practitioners. In Overby, L. Y. & Lepczyk, B. (eds.). Dance: Current
Selected Research Volume V. (pp. 245-258). New York, NY: AMS Press.
Green, J. (2005). Postpositivist inquiry: Multiple perspectives and paradigms. In Cruz,
F. & Berrol, F. (eds.), Dance/Movement Therapists in Action: A Working
Guide to Research Options (pp.109-124). Springfield, Illinois: Charles C.
Thomas.
Green, J. (2002-03). Foucault and the training of docile bodies in dance education. Arts
and Learning, 19(1), 99-126.
Green, J. (2002a). Somatic knowledge: The body as content and methodology in dance
education. Journal of Dance Education, 2(4), 114-118.
Green, J. (2002b). Somatics: A growing and changing field. Journal of Dance
Education,2(4), 11.
Green, J. (2001a). Socially constructed bodies in American dance classrooms. Research
in Dance Education, 2(2), 155-173.
Green, J. (2001b). Emancipatory Pedagogy?: Women’s Bodies and the Creative Process
in Dance. Frontiers, 21(3), 124-140.
Articles (Peer Reviewed)
Green, J. (2012). Kinetic Awareness® for women with breast cancer: Somatic movement an aid to treatment. Journal of Dance & Somatic Practices, 4(2), 211-232.
Green, J. (2008). Les politiques et éthiques de la santé en éducation de la danse au Etats-Unis. In Fortin, S. (ed.), Les politiques et éthiques de la santé en éducation de la danse au Etats-Unis, (pp. 169-180) Presses de l’Université du Québec à Montréal, Collection Santé.
Green, J. (2006). Kinetic Awareness TM Pedagogy: Elaine Summers and second generation practitioners. In Overby, L. Y. & Lepczyk, B. (eds.). Dance: Current Selected Research Volume V. (pp. 245-258). New York, NY: AMS Press.
Green, J. (2002-03). Foucault and the training of docile bodies in dance education. Arts and Learning, 19(1), 99-126.
Green, J. (2002). Somatic knowledge: The body as content and methodology in dance education. Journal of Dance Education, 2(4), 114-118.
Green, J. (2002).Somatics: A growing and changing field. Journal of Dance Education, 2(4), 11.
Green, J. (2001). Socially constructed bodies in American dance classrooms. Research in Dance Education, 2(2), 155-173 (peer reviewed).
Green, J. (2001). Emancipatory Pedagogy?: Women’s Bodies and the Creative Process in Dance. Frontiers, 21(3), 124-140.
Green, J. (2000). Power, service, and reflexivity in a community dance project. Research in Dance Education, 1(1), 53-67.
Green, J. (2000). Summer Dance Connections: A community-based education program. Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 71(4), 29-31.
Green, J. (1999). Somatic authority and the myth of the ideal body in dance education. Dance Research Journal, 31(2), 80-100.
Green, J. (1998). Dance in retrospect: Moving out again. Journal of Interdisciplinary Research in Physical Education, 2(1).
Green, J. (1996). Moving through and against multiple paradigms: Postpositivist research in somatics and creativity – Part II. Journal of Interdisciplinary Research in Physical Education, 1(2), 73-86.
Green, J. (1996). Moving through and against multiple paradigms: Postpositivist research in somatics and creativity – Part I. Journal of Interdisciplinary Research in Physical Education, 1(1), 43-54.
Green, J. (1996). Choreographing a postmodern turn: The creative process and somatics. Impulse, 4 (4), 267-275.
Green, J. (1992). The use of balls in Kinetic Awareness. Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 63(8), 61-64.
Chapters (Peer Reviewed)
Green, J. (in press). Postmodern spirituality?: A personal narrative. In Williamson, A. (ed.), Dance, Somatics and Spiritualities: Contemporary Sacred Narrative. Leading Edge Voices in the field. Coventry, UK: Intellect.
Green, J (2007). Student bodies: Dance pedagogy and the Soma. In Bresler, L. (ed.), International Handbook on Research in Arts Education. (pp. 1119-1132), The Netherlands: Springer.
Green, J. (2005). Postpositivist inquiry: Multiple perspectives and paradigms. In Cruz, R. F. & Berrol, F. (eds.), Dance/Movement Therapists in Action: A Working Guide to Research Options (pp.109-124). Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas.
Green, J. (2004). The politics and ethics of health in dance education in the United States. In Anttila, E, S. Hamalainen & L. Rouhiainen (eds.), The Same Difference? Ethics and Politics Embodied in Dance, (pp. 65-76). Helsinki, Finland: Theatre Academy of Finland.
Green, J., & Stinson, S. (1999). Postpositivist research in dance. In S. H. Fraleigh & P. Hanstein (Eds.), The Art of Research: Systematic Inquiry in Dance (pp. 91-123). Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Proceedings
Green, J. (2010). Weaving Somatic Theory and Practice through Faculty Collaboration. CORD 2009 Special Topics Conference Proceedings.
Green, J (2007). American Body Pedagogies: Somatics and the Cultural Construction of Bodies. CORD 2008 Conference Proceedings.
Green, J. (2004). Docile bodies: A threat or a necessity in educating dancers (panel discussion). Ethics and Politics Embodied in Dance Conference Proceedings, The Theatre Academy of Finland, Helsinki, Finland.
Green, (2004). The body politic: Constructions of health and healing in dance education. 2004 National Dance Education Conference Proceedings, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.
Green, J. (2001). Towards a globalization of dance research: The scholarly Disciplines. In J. LaPointe-Crump (Ed.), CORD 2001 Conference Proceedings, Transmigratory Moves: Dance in Global Circulation (pp. 156-160).
Green, J. (2001). Social somatic theory, practice, and research: An inclusive approach in higher education. Conference Proceedings, Dancing in the Millennium: An International Conference (pp. 213-217). Washington, D.C.
Green, J. (1999). Community dance: Moving toward the future of dance education. Proceedings of the First Inaugural Dance Education Association Conference.
Green, J. (1998). Dance performance and education: Moving from inside the studios to the outside community. In N. L. Stokes (Ed.), Proceedings of the 31st Congress on Research in Dance. The Art of the Moment: Looking at Dance Performance from Inside and Out (pp. 77-87). The Congress on Research in Dance.
Review
Green, J. (2009). The body eclectic: Evolving practices in dance training [Review of the book The body eclectic: Evolving practices in dance training]. Dance Chronicle, 10(1), 89-94.
Other Publications
Green, J. (2001, Fall). Somatics: Studying the body from inside out. Congress on Research in Dance Newsletter.
Green, J. (1997, Spring). North Carolina Dance Education: A Fragile State, Dance Voice, pp. 1, 3.
Green, J. (1993). Fostering creativity through movement and body awareness practices: A postpositivist investigation into the relationship between somatics and the creative process (Doctoral dissertation, The Ohio State University, 1993). Dissertation Abstracts International, 54(11), 3910A.
Green, J. (1991, Summer). Learning holistically through the bodymind: A rationale for movement in the curriculum, Kinetic Awareness, pp. 1, 4.