The Grappling Arts Podcast

Author: Sam West

Wrestling Resurgence presents: The Grappling Arts Podcast where we explore the craft of professional wrestling! Welcome to The Grappling Arts Podcast, where we celebrate the art of professional wrestling, explore wrestling practice, and dig deep into its rich and varied history. Throughout the series we bring you interviews with leading figures from within the independent wrestling community, as well as a variety of expert guests and contributors. Topics such a theatre, sport, storytelling, and performance! Hosted by Wrestling Resurgence producer/doctoral researcher Sam West and theatre and professional wrestling scholar Claire Warden.
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Special Edition - Collaborative Touch in Performance and Sport - LU Arts Roundtable
Episode 7
Monday, 19 July, 2021

A special edition of Grappling Arts bring you this event from the LU Arts/Loughborough University festival Interface.Sport and artistic performance have a long, intertwined history. Despite this, they are so often regarded as separate.This roundtable event brings together five academics/practitioners with a view to reimagining that most potent of presences in sport and performance: the body.The contributors are Tom Dawkins (wrestler, as Cara Noir, contemporary performer and fitness coach), Claire Heafford (former UK gymnast and bobsledder, wrestler and performer), Dominic Malcolm (Reader in the Sociology of Sport and author of The Concussion Crisis in Sport), Gareth McNarry (Para-swimming lead at Loughborough Sport with a doctorate in swimming embodiment) and Claire Warden (Senior Lecturer in English and Drama and co-editor of Performance and Professional Wrestling).They discuss a range of interests and concerns including pain, discomfort, the fraught notion of work, touch and haptic communication.This event is part of Interface: a week of discussions and events that showcase interdisciplinary practice