Ecstatic dance and women’s wellbeing
My PhD (Deakin Uni) explores the transformative potential of embodied and ecstatic states within dance, using critical and decolonial frameworks and affirmative ethics. The research weaves together somatic inquiry, narrative theory and lived experience, to examine how conscious dancers disrupt dominant narratives and open pathways to collective and ecological healing.
Supervisors Assoc Prof Anna Halafoff and Prof Andrew Singleton
Recent Teaching
THIRD YEAR ARTS
Religion, Rights and Governance, with Assoc Prof Anna Halafoff and Jayne Garrod at Deakin University.
Recent Presentations
Harvard Divinity School, ‘Women, conscious dance and spirituality’ with Anna Halafoff.
https://pes.hds.harvard.edu/publication/conscious-dance-women-and-spirituality
Recent Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLES
‘Alone Australia’, nature connection and spiritual complexity in popular culture
11 Jun 2025, Journal of Beliefs and Values:1-25
Halafoff A, Hauw S, Yunkaporta T
5Rhythms dance as lived spirituality: women, embodiment, and relational wellbeing
24 Apr 2025, Journal of Contemporary Religion1-19, Taylor and Francis Group
Hauw S, Halafoff A
2024, Journal of Intercultural Studies 45(3):494-512
Haw A, Hauw S