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Geographies of Us is the first edited collection in the field of ecosomatics.
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Land Acknowledgments List of Contributors List of Figures Ear and Heart to Earth with Gratitude(Acknowledgements)Introduction: Locating Geographies of Us
Sondra Fraleigh and Shannon Rose Riley
St. George, Utah, U.S.A: 37.0941° N, 113.5749° W
Fremont, California, U.S.A.: 37.5483° N, 121.9886° W
PART IEnworlding, Rewilding, Decentering, Transing/Pluraling, Performing, Attending to, Dancing1 A Critical Ecosomatics: Cultivating Awareness and Imagination
Shannon Rose RileyGrau Pond, Fremont, California, U.S.A.: 37.5735° N,121.9847° WEssay2 What Native American Dance Does and the Stakes of Ecosomatics
Tria Blu Wakpa
University of California, Los Angeles, California,
U.S.A.: 34.0700° N, 118.4442° W
South Dakota State Penitentiary, Sioux Falls,
South Dakota, U.S.A.: 43.5668° N, 96.7250° W
Essay3 Ecosomatic Performance Research for the Pluriverse
Daniel Ìgbín'bí Coleman
San Cristóbal de las Casas, México: 16.7370° N, 92.6376° W
Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.: 33.7532° N, 84.3853° W
Practice Pages4 Material/ Material: Thousandfold Somas and Poetry of Emergence
Sondra Fraleigh
St. George, Utah, U.S.A.: 37.0941° N, 113.5749° W
Essay5 Decentering the Human through Butoh
Lani Weissbach
Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A.: 39.7684° N, 86.1581° W
Practice Pages6 Shaky Islands and Rising Seas: Dancing Entanglements in the Global South
Karen Barbour
Kirikiriroa (Hamilton), Aotearoa (New Zealand): 37.7869° S, 175.3185° E
EssayPART IIHorse, Lion, Queer Animal, Skin7 Crittercal Somaticity: Rewilding Our Horse Senses
Stephen SmithPitt Meadows, British Colombia, Canada: 49.3058° N,122.6057° WEssay8 Moving with Cats
Shannon Rose Riley
The Berlin Zoological Garden, Berlin, Germany: 52.5079° N, 13.3378° E
Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany: 52.4911° N, 13.4127° E
Private multispecies dwelling, Fremont, California,
U.S.A.: 37.5483° N, 121.9886° W
Practice Pages9 Embodying Islands: Ecosomatics and the Transnational Queer
Fei Shi
Nex¿ wlélex¿ m (Bowen Island), Canada: 49.3768° N, 123.3702° W
Chongming Island, China: 31.6813° N, 121.4820° E
Essay10 Skinbody and the Skin of the Earth
Alison (Ali) East
Otepoti (Dunedin), Aotearoa (New Zealand): 45.8795° S, 170.5006° E
Practice PagesPART IIITree, River, Carbon, Stone11 Practicing with Trees 219
Annette ArlanderGalway Road, Johannesburg, South Africa:26.1658° S, 28.0223° EDavid Bagares Street, Stockholm, Sweden: 59.3373° N,18.0687° EKaivopuisto Park, Helsinki, Finland: 60.1557° N, 24.9557° EPractice Pages12 Fearless Belonging and River- Me
Adesola Akinleye
Thames River, London, U.K.: 51.4925° N, 0.0288° W
Mystic River, Boston, Massachusetts: U.S.A.: 42.3979° N, 71.0797° W
Denton, Texas, U.S.A.: 33.2302° N, 97.1213° W
Essay13 How to Apprentice with Land in Enchanted Kinship Christine Bellerose
Rockcliffe Park, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: 45.4471° N, 75.6847° W
Practice Pages14 Feel the Carbon under Your Footprint: Indigenous Approaches to Grounding
Nathalie Guillaume
K¿kaniloko Birthstones State Monument,
O'ahu, Hawaii: 21.5048° N, 158.0364° W
Port- au- Prince, Republic of Haiti: 18.5358° N, 72.3331° W
Practice PagesPART IV
Place, Plasma, Pluriverse, Potato15 My Place Is a Chiasmatic Dance
Glen A. Mazis
Marietta, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: 40.0559° N, 76.5517° W
Essay16 Cosmic Plasma Echoing in (Our) Place
Debra Lacey
Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: 41.6033° N, 80.3058° W
Practice Pages17 Languaging Body by Field: Ecoproprioception
George Quasha
Barrytown, New York, U.S.A.: 41.9998° N, 73.9248° W
Essay18 Outdoor Dances: Meditations on Loss in the Finger Lakes and Beyond
Missy Pfohl Smith
Finger Lakes, New York, U.S.A.: 42.7238° N, 76.9297° W
Practice Pages19 Awe and Empathy
Edward S. Casey
Stony Brook, New York, U.S.A.: 40.9027° N, 73.1338° W
Essay20 Enworlding Place Dances and Potatoes
Sondra Fraleigh
Snow Canyon, Utah, U.S.A.: 37.2145° N, 113.6402° W
Yokohama, Japan: 35.4437° N, 139.6380° E
Circleville, Utah, U.S.A.: 38.1688° N, 112.2696° W
Practice PagesIndex
About the author
Sondra Fraleigh is Professor Emeritus, Department of Dance, State University of New York, Brockport, U.S.A.
Shannon Rose Riley is Professor of Humanities & Creative Arts, San José State University, U.S.A.
Summary
Geographies of Us is the first edited collection in the field of ecosomatics.