Lab 4: More-than-Stories: Stimulating Body Archive (ADSA)
Adelaide, Kaurna country
Nov 21, 2023,
Link: https://www.adsa2023adelaide.com
Our stories are intrinsically cellular and patterned through the cyclical sensing-moving of experience in a more-than-human world. Simple choreographic, eco-somatic scores of
walking, standing, sharing weight, and yield, can mobilise multitudinous memories and events from the ecological body archive which performs within a complex matrix of interdependent relationships. As dance improvisers engaged with relational eco-somatic movement practices, our dance of attention plays always within widening fields of encounter. The iterative material of the body archive is the content and form of our work.
This participatory workshop investigates how eco-somatic practices can be used to provoke the ecological body as a real-time, moving archive filled with stories yet untold.
We will offer expanded listening practices which hone in on different scales of proprioceptive and haptic feedback, interoceptive/exteroceptive communications traversing systems and cells, and our relationship with gravity and weight and time. The practices together with philosophical prompts, will allow us to explore together in movement and text, the questions: How do eco-somatic dance improvisation practices facilitate the understanding of the ecological body as a real-time archive/(an)archive? How does the materiality of dance serve as an alternative pathway to knowledge transmission? What stories will arise if we listen-in to the archive of the body that is always in movement and in a dynamic relationship with gravity and place? This workshop aims to provide a space for practitioner-scholars to think with their individual body archives in collective, in-person research on Kaurna Country.
walking, standing, sharing weight, and yield, can mobilise multitudinous memories and events from the ecological body archive which performs within a complex matrix of interdependent relationships. As dance improvisers engaged with relational eco-somatic movement practices, our dance of attention plays always within widening fields of encounter. The iterative material of the body archive is the content and form of our work.
This participatory workshop investigates how eco-somatic practices can be used to provoke the ecological body as a real-time, moving archive filled with stories yet untold.
We will offer expanded listening practices which hone in on different scales of proprioceptive and haptic feedback, interoceptive/exteroceptive communications traversing systems and cells, and our relationship with gravity and weight and time. The practices together with philosophical prompts, will allow us to explore together in movement and text, the questions: How do eco-somatic dance improvisation practices facilitate the understanding of the ecological body as a real-time archive/(an)archive? How does the materiality of dance serve as an alternative pathway to knowledge transmission? What stories will arise if we listen-in to the archive of the body that is always in movement and in a dynamic relationship with gravity and place? This workshop aims to provide a space for practitioner-scholars to think with their individual body archives in collective, in-person research on Kaurna Country.
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.