Lab 1: Soil-Body Worlding with Merri Creek
NEECHi, Merri Creek, Coburg
Fri 27 Oct, 2023
10am-1pm
How are you relating to the world? How are you listening to yourself, to others, to the flora and fauna of the places you inhabit? To the materials of the built environment which coexist with the sky and waterways - all being affected by the changing climate and population conditions?
Soil-Body Worlding is an invitation to investigate your bodied, felt sense of place and time, in movement and conversation with others. The series invites you into curated experiences of bodily attunement, movement and art making which mobilizes conscious awareness to our interconnectedness with the world. We use immersive activities we call micro-choreographic scores which draw upon dance, choreography and somatic practices The practices offer opportunities to slow down, to notice, to prompt imagination, to learn at different scales of dilation, and to feel through sensing and expression our human-ness in a more than human world. Also to revisit the unknown, the nonverbal, the sensing body in activity. This workshop takes place along the Merri Creek,Coburg,Victoria as it edges with the urban environment.
Underpinned by the knowledge that all in the world is constantly in flow, in flux, in movement, from the cells of the body to the swell of the seas and weather in its dynamic revelations, the Worlding series hones in on this life world dance. How are we influencing the world ? How are we being influenced? How are we caring for the world? How is the world stewarding us? What more can we come to know, experience,share and tend to if we attune to our environments, our ecological body in conversation always with the ecologies of the planet?
Soil-Body Worlding is an invitation to investigate your bodied, felt sense of place and time, in movement and conversation with others. The series invites you into curated experiences of bodily attunement, movement and art making which mobilizes conscious awareness to our interconnectedness with the world. We use immersive activities we call micro-choreographic scores which draw upon dance, choreography and somatic practices The practices offer opportunities to slow down, to notice, to prompt imagination, to learn at different scales of dilation, and to feel through sensing and expression our human-ness in a more than human world. Also to revisit the unknown, the nonverbal, the sensing body in activity. This workshop takes place along the Merri Creek,Coburg,Victoria as it edges with the urban environment.
Underpinned by the knowledge that all in the world is constantly in flow, in flux, in movement, from the cells of the body to the swell of the seas and weather in its dynamic revelations, the Worlding series hones in on this life world dance. How are we influencing the world ? How are we being influenced? How are we caring for the world? How is the world stewarding us? What more can we come to know, experience,share and tend to if we attune to our environments, our ecological body in conversation always with the ecologies of the planet?
Lab 1: Wurrundjeri Country, Naarm (2023), images by Emily Bowman and Vanessa Chapple. We live, work and dance on the land of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation.
This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.
This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.