Geographies of Us

Ecosomatic Essays and Practice Pages

Sondra Fraleigh, Shannon Rose Riley (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

364 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-47999-6 (ISBN)

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

Geographies of Us: Ecosomatic Essays and Practice Pages is the first edited collection in the field of ecosomatics.

With a combination of essays and practice pages that provide a variety of scholarly, creative, and experience-based approaches for readers, the book brings together both established and emergent scholars and artists from many diverse backgrounds and covers work rooted in a dozen countries. The essays engage an array of crucial methodologies and critical/theoretical perspectives, including practice-based research in the arts, especially in performance and dance studies, critical theory, ecocriticism, Indigenous knowledges, material feminist critique, quantum field theory, and new phenomenologies. Practice pages are shorter chapters that provide readers a chance to engage creatively with the ideas presented across the collection. This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective that brings together work in performance as research, phenomenology, and dance/movement; this is one of its significant contributions to the area of ecosomatics.

The book will be of interest to anyone curious about matters of embodiment, ecology, and the environment, especially artists and students of dance, performance, and somatic movement education who want to learn about ecosomatics and environmental activists who want to learn more about integrating creativity, the arts, and movement into their work.

Sondra Fraleigh is Professor Emeritus, Department of Dance, State University of New York, Brockport, U.S.A. Shannon Rose Riley is Professor of Humanities & Creative Arts, San José State University, U.S.A.

Land Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
List of Figures
Ear and Heart to Earth with Gratitude
(Acknowledgements)

Introduction: Locating Geographies of Us
Sondra Fraleigh and Shannon Rose Riley
St. George, Utah, U.S.A: 37.0941° N, 113.5749° W
Fremont, California, U.S.A.: 37.5483° N, 121.9886° W

PART I
Enworlding, Rewilding, Decentering, Transing/Pluraling, Performing, Attending to, Dancing

1 A Critical Ecosomatics: Cultivating Awareness and Imagination
Shannon Rose Riley
Grau Pond, Fremont, California, U.S.A.: 37.5735° N,121.9847° W
Essay

2 What Native American Dance Does and the Stakes of Ecosomatics Tria Blu Wakpa
University of California, Los Angeles, California,
U.S.A.: 34.0700° N, 118.4442° W
South Dakota State Penitentiary, Sioux Falls,
South Dakota, U.S.A.: 43.5668° N, 96.7250° W
Essay

3 Ecosomatic Performance Research for the Pluriverse Daniel Ìgbín’bí Coleman
San Cristóbal de las Casas, México: 16.7370° N, 92.6376° W
Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.: 33.7532° N, 84.3853° W
Practice Pages

4 Material/ Material: Thousandfold Somas and Poetry of EmergenceSondra Fraleigh
St. George, Utah, U.S.A.: 37.0941° N, 113.5749° W
Essay

5 Decentering the Human through Butoh Lani Weissbach
Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A.: 39.7684° N, 86.1581° W
Practice Pages

6 Shaky Islands and Rising Seas: Dancing Entanglements in the Global South Karen Barbour
Kirikiriroa (Hamilton), Aotearoa (New Zealand): 37.7869° S, 175.3185° E
Essay

PART II
Horse, Lion, Queer Animal, Skin

7 Crittercal Somaticity: Rewilding Our Horse Senses
Stephen Smith
Pitt Meadows, British Colombia, Canada: 49.3058° N,122.6057° W
Essay

8 Moving with CatsShannon Rose Riley
The Berlin Zoological Garden, Berlin, Germany: 52.5079° N, 13.3378° E
Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany: 52.4911° N, 13.4127° E
Private multispecies dwelling, Fremont, California,
U.S.A.: 37.5483° N, 121.9886° W
Practice Pages

9 Embodying Islands: Ecosomatics and the Transnational Queer Fei Shi
Nex̱ wlélex̱ m (Bowen Island), Canada: 49.3768° N, 123.3702° W
Chongming Island, China: 31.6813° N, 121.4820° E
Essay

10 Skinbody and the Skin of the Earth Alison (Ali) East
Otepoti (Dunedin), Aotearoa (New Zealand): 45.8795° S, 170.5006° E
Practice Pages

PART III
Tree, River, Carbon, Stone

11 Practicing with Trees 219Annette Arlander
Galway Road, Johannesburg, South Africa:
26.1658° S, 28.0223° E
David Bagares Street, Stockholm, Sweden: 59.3373° N,18.0687° E
Kaivopuisto Park, Helsinki, Finland: 60.1557° N, 24.9557° E
Practice Pages

12 Fearless Belonging and River- Me Adesola Akinleye
Thames River, London, U.K.: 51.4925° N, 0.0288° W
Mystic River, Boston, Massachusetts: U.S.A.: 42.3979° N, 71.0797° W
Denton, Texas, U.S.A.: 33.2302° N, 97.1213° W
Essay

13 How to Apprentice with Land in Enchanted Kinship Christine BelleroseRockcliffe Park, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: 45.4471° N, 75.6847° W
Practice Pages

14 Feel the Carbon under Your Footprint: Indigenous Approaches to Grounding Nathalie Guillaume
Kūkaniloko Birthstones State Monument,
O’ahu, Hawaii: 21.5048° N, 158.0364° W
Port- au- Prince, Republic of Haiti: 18.5358° N, 72.3331° W
Practice Pages

PART IV
Place, Plasma, Pluriverse, Potato

15 My Place Is a Chiasmatic Dance Glen A. Mazis
Marietta, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: 40.0559° N, 76.5517° W
Essay

16 Cosmic Plasma Echoing in (Our) PlaceDebra Lacey
Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: 41.6033° N, 80.3058° W
Practice Pages

17 Languaging Body by Field: Ecoproprioception George Quasha
Barrytown, New York, U.S.A.: 41.9998° N, 73.9248° W
Essay

18 Outdoor Dances: Meditations on Loss in the Finger Lakes and Beyond Missy Pfohl Smith
Finger Lakes, New York, U.S.A.: 42.7238° N, 76.9297° W
Practice Pages

19 Awe and Empathy Edward S. Casey
Stony Brook, New York, U.S.A.: 40.9027° N, 73.1338° W
Essay

20 Enworlding Place Dances and Potatoes Sondra Fraleigh
Snow Canyon, Utah, U.S.A.: 37.2145° N, 113.6402° W
Yokohama, Japan: 35.4437° N, 139.6380° E
Circleville, Utah, U.S.A.: 38.1688° N, 112.2696° W
Practice Pages

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	15.03.2024
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Theatre, Ecology, and Performance
Zusatzinfo	51 Halftones, black and white; 51 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	880 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
	Sozialwissenschaften
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	1-032-47999-X / 103247999X
ISBN-13	978-1-032-47999-6 / 9781032479996
Zustand	Neuware