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Dorsal Practices (last edited: 2024)

Emma Cocker, Katrina Brown

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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?
typeresearch exposition
keywordsdorsality;, dorsal practices, Choreography, conversation, reading, language-based artistic research, collaboration
date20/07/2021
last modified06/12/2024
statusin progress
share statuspublic
copyrightKatrina Brown and Emma Cocker
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1311616/1405689


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