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This exposition is an archival gesture emerging from the Dramaturgical Ecologies research-creation collective. Rooted in the entwined inquiries of Blacknesses and Dramaturgy, it gathers the dialogues, encounters and an artistic residency that unfolded through the SSHRC-funded Murmurations project. Between the viscous resonance of okra and the shifting flight of murmuring birds, this exposition shares choreokratic ecologies - a garden of study where movement, thought, and relation co-compose. Here, Blackness becomes a method, a lens, a refrain, challenging the neutrality of the performer-dancer body and inviting modes of collective creation that are relational, porous, and opaque. Murmurations attends to what forms in the formless - like a swarm of birds: a living archive of bodies, voices, and ecologies composing a landscape.

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  • contents
    • Introduction
    • Choreo
    • Okratic
    • Choreokratic
    • The ABC's of Dramaturgical Ecologies
    • Relationality and Body-as-Archive
    • Praxis and Diaspora
    • Interlude for a flock of birds
    • An Okratic Residency - DE@3E
    • Friction and Opacity
    • Embodiment and Representation
    • Ground Provisions Event
    • Acknowledgments
    • Bibliography
    • Carlos Eduardo de Carvalho Mello
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    This exposition is an archival gesture emerging from the Dramaturgical Ecologies research-creation collective. Rooted in the entwined inquiries of Blacknesses and Dramaturgy, it gathers the dialogues, encounters and an artistic residency that unfolded through the SSHRC-funded Murmurations project. Between the viscous resonance of okra and the shifting flight of murmuring birds, this exposition shares choreokratic ecologies - a garden of study where movement, thought, and relation co-compose. Here, Blackness becomes a method, a lens, a refrain, challenging the neutrality of the performer-dancer body and inviting modes of collective creation that are relational, porous, and opaque. Murmurations attends to what forms in the formless - like a swarm of birds: a living archive of bodies, voices, and ecologies composing a landscape.
  • Carlos Eduardo de Carvalho Mello - Choreokratic Ecologies - An Archive of the Murmurations Project - 2026
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