Eco-sound-movement practice: an embodied approach, (re)moving self and (re)membering responsibly

Abstract

This research focuses on interconnections and intra-action of bodies, movement, dance movement psychotherapy, environment and landscape, through trauma, as experienced alongside the ‘non/more than human’. Pandemic years become germinal, life changing within my work as psychosomatic movement practitioner in the world. Steering me towards micro and macro environments. Moving Rhy-somatically involves, moving and developing more laterally, as a distributed process without a traditional hierarchy, and has shown ethical promise, as a personal and professional regenerative embodied approach; I wondered about our human responses to wasting of a planet in crisis. Using movement, improvisation, film/photography, sound, creative writing and critical reflection, as assemblage for practiced based research, I move more collaboratively, with diverse ecologies, that are distinct yet interconnected, through material discursive events during pandemic and lock down. It is a noticing that bodies, material and abstract encounter each other first, providing an epistemological source, and trusting that the ontological river still flows; integrating and healing.