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  • PROMPTS 1
  • Sentient Performativities June 2022 Archive
  • Re-turning I (October 2022)
  • Re-turning II (November 2022)
  • Re-turning III (January 2023)
  • Dorsal Reading S1
  • 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?
• Emma Cocker, Katrina Brown - Dorsal Practices - 2024
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