Site, Dance and Body: Worlding human-nonhuman relations through site-based movement (part of doing together 24)

Site, Dance and Body: Worlding human-nonhuman relations through site-based movement

Workshop with Professor Vicky Hunter as part of doing together 24

Thursday 4 April 2024

This workshop explored the ‘vibrant matter’ (Bennet 2009) of bodies, sites and their and materials in dialogue with one another.

Through simple movement tasks, group and solo exercises the workshop explored playful intra-actions (Barad) and engaged participants in embodied, qualitative enquiry through which body-world relations are fostered and enacted. Through practical enquiry the workshop put ‘vital materialism’ to work in pragmatic ways. The session included: a site-based movement session (for all abilities/levels of experience) in which participants engaged in movement tasks and short exercises that explored relationships between bodies and urban environments. A post-practice discussion and evaluation of the movement practice took place as a method of exploring and considering sites and spaces in and through the body and reflection on what constitutes 'moving together' in this work.

doing together 24
doing together is a yearly two-day making and sharing practice symposium at Locksbrook Campus, hosted by the Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries in collaboration with Bath School of Art, Film and Media and Bath School of Music and Performing Arts.

Workshops, delivered by staff and postgraduate students from across the University, share practice-based research methods and a broad range of approaches to practice. doing together is proposed as a generous space to make/do/share and discuss practice with colleagues from a range of different Schools.

Throughout the symposium, facilitators – alongside participants – test out ways of doing together in an effort to make their practice-based research explicit, rather than simply describe it.