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.

Keywords:

• Ecology
• trauma
• dance movement psychotherapy
• creative practice
• embodiment
• waste

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Sarah Boreham

Sarah Boreham is a multidisciplinary arts practitioner, dancer, dance movement psychotherapist, writer, musician, researcher and lecturer/teacher. Bringing a hybrid, feminist, ecological, new-materialist post-human, interdisciplinary and multimodal influence background from performing arts, psychology and philosophy. Using film/media/virtual/actual space and ‘active continual contextual movement’, her current collaborative research projects, include working with a Devonian geologist, using ‘Rhizomic ontologies’ (Deleuze) and process orientated epistemology. The shoots of such projects bring together, movement, environment and heritage through movement.