ECOLOGICAL BODY 2016
Movement workshop with Sandra Reeve, September 3-9th, 2016 West Dorset
'If you see the world around you as mindless and therefore not entitled to moral or ethical consideration... the environment will seem to be yours to exploit. If this is your estimate of your relation to nature and you have an advanced technology, your likelihood of survival will be that of a snowball in hell. You will die either of the toxic by-products of your own hate, or, simply of overpopulation and overgrazing. The raw materials of the world are finite.' (Gregory Bateson writing in 1972)
Gregory Bateson's solution was to re-educate understanding.
Move into Life workshops often explore the 'lenses' that condition how we see ourselves, each other and the world. But this Ecological Body workshop really seeks to disrupt our profoundly individualistic mindsets/bodysets and to cultivate a quite different attitude through the experience of being-in-movement within the wider context. It seeks to 'unflatten' our perception of the world, to bring us back to the magical subject-to-subject relational life with others and with our surroundings that can so easily get lost in everyday life.
The workshop begins from a sense of the collective. As moving, adaptive beings we study our relationship to change through movement in a walled garden by the sea and in a village hall, through the lenses of niche, pattern, and emergence.
Full details can be found at www.moveintolife.com
Publications :
Reeve, S (2011) Nine Ways of Seeing a Body, Axminster: Triarchy Press
Reeve, S (ed.) (2013) Body and Performance, Axminster: Triarchy Press
Reeve, S (2014) 'The Sacrum and the Sacred: mutual transformation of performer and site through ecological movement in sacred sites' in Williamson, A & Batson, G (eds) Dance, Somatics and Spiritualities: Contemporary Sacred Narratives, Bristol: Intellect
Bloom, K , Galanter, M, Reeve, S (eds) (2014) Embodied Lives, Reflections on the influence of Suprapto Suryodarmo and Amerta Movement, Axminster: Triarchy Press
Reeve, S (2015) 'Moving beyond inscription to incorporation': the four dynamics of ecological movement in site-specific performance in Hunter,V (ed) Moving Sites: Investigating Site Specific Dance Performance, Oxford: Routledge
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