The body is a landscape and the landscape is a body

Abstract

This artist write-up gives a brief summary of somatic and creative insights that emerged through exploring movement improvisation with the various natural biomes of North America. These creative explorations spanned two years of living and improvising, as immersed as possible, in the forest, lake, tundra, swamp, grasslands, river, desert and rain forest biomes. At the end of the write-up are links to three video-dances: the first two video-dances explore movement improvisation as a co-creative process with the river and then with the rain forest biome. The third video, which focuses on the forest biome, layers text from my personal journal writings with photos taken of the movement improvisations with the landscape.