Geographies of Us

ISBN-13: 9781032479996 / Twarda / 2024 / 384 str.

Opis

Geographies of Us is the first edited collection in the field of ecosomatics.

Recenzje

‘’This collection of essays gathers together important strands in the current studies of ecosomatics. It includes many ‘practice pages’ that open doors to the feelings that have generated the commitment of the writers to creating common grounds for deep conversation about the way people live in the ecologies of the world. The combination of affective strength, so difficult to articulate, with practical exercises – such as the many approaches to breathing as a form of ecoproprioception – will draw readers into places/geographies where artmaking and philosophy join together and suggest new languages for thinking and talking about engaging with this earth. ‘’ Lynette Hunter Professor of Theatre and Dance, UC Davis Arts

‘’This seminal collection of essays maps the contours of an emerging field: ecosomatics. At the intersection of dance studies, movement studies, philosophy, and ecology, ecosomatics encourages ways of thinking and doing that cultivate a human’s sensory awareness of their bodily enmeshment in enabling places and worlds – nexuses of material relationships which call for respect, reciprocity, and responsibility. In essays written by an international cast of contributors, ecosomatics demonstrates its fierce commitment to social and environmental justice; a ready embrace of Indigenous knowledges, histories, and rights; thoughtful engagement with established fields of phenomenology, eco-philosophy, and dance studies; a lived, dialectical production of theory and practice, and an overriding mission to participate as consciously as possible in generating worldviews and bodily practices that sensitize humans to the ongoing health and wellbeing of the Earth in us and around us.’’ Kimerer L LaMothe, PhD, author of Why We Dance: A Philosophy of Bodily Becoming

‘’Geographies of Us provides an exciting snapshot of a diversifying field: of the different methods, playful encounters, bodymind approaches, and land politics that make up the contemporary ecosomatic inquiry, with plenty of invitations to join in the dance. At its heart, this collection is about local and grounded connection, about reaching out – in intergenerational liveliness and critterly entanglement, in touch and in movement, in human and more-than-human worlds.’ Petra Kuppers, author of Eco Soma: Pain and Joy in Speculative Performance Encounters

‘I consider this the most important work to emerge in interdisciplinary dance/performance studies this century. The depth and quality of engagement available to the reader in these pages has the potential to widely transform thought, practice, institutions, environments, and the lived relations between.’ Karen Bond, Chair of Dance, Temple University

Spis treści

Geographies of Us: An Introduction; Part I: Enworlding, Rewilding, Decentering, Transing--Pluraling, Performing, Attending to, Dancing; Chapter One: Ecosomatics as Pluriversal Opening: Transing Transnational Performance as Research Practice- Coleman, Daniel B, San Cristóbal de las Casas, México: 16.7370° N, 92.6376° W- Essay; Chapter Two: Material/Material, Thousand-Fold Somas and Poetry of Emergence- Fraleigh, Sondra, St. George, Utah, U.S.A.: 37.0965° N, 113.5684° W , Essay; Chapter Three: Combating Indigenous Erasure in Ecosomatics: Critiquing Colonization and Celebrating 21 Years of Māori Body Politics with Atamira’s Te Wheke, Blu Wakpa, Tria , Auckland, New Zealand: 36.8509° S, 174.7645° E ,Essay; Chapter Four: Ecosomatic/s in the Anthropocene: Attending to the More-than-Human- Riley, Shannon Rose , Grau Pond, Fremont California, U.S.A.: 37.57337° N, 121.98555° W ,Essay; Chapter Five: Decentering the Human through Butoh, Weissbach, Lani , Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A.: 39.7684° N, 86.1581° W ,Practice Pages; Chapter Six: Volcanic Islands, Oceans, and Tides: Dancing Entanglements in the Global South- Barbour, Karen, Hamilton, New Zealand: 37.7869° S, 175.3185° E ,Essay; Part II: Horse, Lion, Queer Animal, Skin; Chapter Seven: Crittercal Somaticity: Rewilding our Horse Senses- Smith, Stephen ,Vancouver, Canada: 49.2781° N, 122.9199° W ,Essay; Chapter Eight. Moving with Cats- Riley, Shannon Rose ,The Berlin Zoological Garden & Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany: 52.5079° N, 13.3378° E & 52.4911° N, 13.4127° E, Private multispecies dwelling, Fremont, California, U.S.A.: 37.57763° N, 122.05504° W ,Practice Pages; Chapter Nine. The Lure of the Kink: Ecosomatics and the Question of the Queer Animal -Shi, Fei ,Squamish, British Columbia: 49.7382° N, 123.1004° W ,Essay; Chapter Ten: Skin and World: Performing Skin as Artifact or Interface -East, Ali ,Dunedin, New Zealand: 45.8795° S, 170.5006° E ,Essay; Part III: Tree, Forest, Carbon, Stone; Chapter Eleven: Practicing with Trees - Arlander, Annette ,Helsinki, Finland: 60.1699° N, 24.9384° E ,Practice Pages; Chapter Twelve: Forest Within- Dako, Anna, Countesswells, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK: 57.1314° N, 2.2163° W , Practice Pages; Chapter Thirteen: Fierce Belonging- Akinleye, Adesola, Denton, Texas, U.S.A.: 33.2148° N, 97.1331° W ,Essay; Chapter Fourteen: How to Apprentice with Land in Enchanted Kinship- Bellerose, Christine, Montréal, Québec, Canada: 45.5017° N, 73.5673° W ,Practice Pages ; Chapter Fifteen: Feel the Carbon Under your Footprint--Indigenous Approaches at/with Kūkaniloko Birthstones - Guillaume, Natalie, Kūkaniloko Birthstones State Monument, O’ahu, Hawaii: 21.5048° N, 158.0364° W , Practice Pages; Part IV: Place, Plasma, Pluriverse, Potato; Chapter Sixteen: Ecoproprioception as a Distinctive Approach to Ecosomatics- Casey, Ed & George Quash, Stony Brook, Long Island, New York, U.S.A.: 40.9257° N, 73.1409° W ,Barrytown, New York, U.S.A.: 41.9987° N, 73.9249° W ,Essay; Chapter Seventeen: Three Outdoor Dances: Meditations on Loss in the Finger Lakes- Pfohl Smith, Missy, Finger Lakes, New York, U.S.A.: 42.7238° N, 76.9297° W ,Practice Pages; Chapter Eighteen: Plasma and the Human Biofield in Ecosomatic Practices-Lacey, Debra, Ashtabula, Ohio, U.S.A.: 41.8651° N, 80.7898° W, Practice Pages, ; Chapter Nineteen. Enworlding Place Dances and Potatoes- Fraleigh, Sondra, Snow Canyon Utah, U.S.A.: 37.1321° N, 113.6350° , Yokohama, Japan: 35.4437° N, 139.6380° E ,Circleville, Utah, U.S.A.: 38.1716° N, 112.2705° W, Practice Pages

O autorze

Sondra Fraleigh is Professor Emeritus, Department of Dance State University of New York, USA.

Shannon Rose Riley is Professor of Humanities & Creative Arts, San José State University, USA.