Dorsal Practices
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): Emma Cocker, Katrina Brown
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Dorsal Practices is a collaboration between choreographer Katrina Brown and writer-artist Emma Cocker, for exploring the notion of dorsality in relation to how we as moving bodies orient to self, others, world. How does the cultivation of a back-oriented awareness and attitude shape and inform our experience of being-in-the-world? A dorsal orientation foregrounds an active letting go, releasing, even de-privileging, of predominant social habits of uprightness and frontality — the head-oriented, sight-oriented, forward-facing, future-leaning tendencies of a culture intent on grasping a sense of the world through naming and control. Rather than a mode of withdrawal, of turning one’s back, how might a back-leaning orientation support a more open and receptive ethics of relation? How are experiences of listening, voicing, thinking, shaped differently through this tilt of awareness and attention towards the back?
Dorsal Practices — Towards a Back-Oriented Being-in-the-World
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): Emma Cocker, Katrina Brown
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
This exposition forms part of a journal article, Katrina Brown and Emma Cocker, 'Dorsal Practices — Towards a Back-Oriented Being-in-the-World’, in Tara Page (ed.) With–In Bodies: Research Assemblages of the Sensory and the Embodied, Special Issue of Humanities 2024, 13, 63. https://doi.org/10.3390/h13020063
The article itself can be found here - https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/13/2/63