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Good day fellow promenaders, My contribution is my PhD project Suriashi-marche féminine, a project where performance and urban society are investigated from within a Japanese practice called suriashi (which translates as ‘creeping/rubbing/sliding foot’). It is based on my own extensive practicing and performing traditional Japanese dance with Nishikawa Senrei, and Japanese theatre with masters of Nō theatre. I take the role of a female urban walker, an actor/observer, a flâneuse walking in a female-to-male-to-female technique. In a second step I investigate how this slow practice operates when moved to outdoor, urban spaces Suriashi involves the whole body and ideas of where spirits are placed. In studio practice, dancers walk slowly forwards in suriashi, but we lean backwards, directing their inner concentration to the appearance of movements from behind while being fully present in the space - almost literally the scientific view of time: a linear progression of past, present and future. Cheers from Sweden! Ami Skånberg Dahlstedt, Gothenburg FRIENDLY REMINDER: if you click REPLY to this email, you will be sending a message to over 300 subscribers. Please do so only if you wish to respond to everyone. To join, leave or suspend list postings, visit http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/wan