Geographies of Us - Ecosomatic Essays and Practice Pages

Geographies of Us is the first edited collection in the field of ecosomatics.

List of contents

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 I
Enworlding, Rewilding, Decentering, Transing/Pluraling, Performing, Attending to, Dancing
1 A Critical Ecosomatics: Cultivating Awareness and Imagination
Shannon Rose Riley
Grau Pond, Fremont, California, U.S.A.: 37.5735° N,121.9847° W
Essay
2 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
Essay
3 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 Pages
4 Material/ Material: Thousandfold Somas and Poetry of EmergenceSondra Fraleigh
St. George, Utah, U.S.A.: 37.0941° N, 113.5749° W
Essay
5 Decentering the Human through Butoh Lani Weissbach
Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A.: 39.7684° N, 86.1581° W
Practice Pages
6 Shaky Islands and Rising Seas: Dancing Entanglements in the Global South Karen Barbour
Kirikiriroa (Hamilton), Aotearoa (New Zealand): 37.7869° S, 175.3185° E
Essay
PART II
Horse, Lion, Queer Animal, Skin
7 Crittercal Somaticity: Rewilding Our Horse Senses
Stephen Smith
Pitt Meadows, British Colombia, Canada: 49.3058° N,122.6057° W
Essay
8 Moving with CatsShannon 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 Pages
9 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
Essay
10 Skinbody and the Skin of the Earth Alison (Ali) East
Otepoti (Dunedin), Aotearoa (New Zealand): 45.8795° S, 170.5006° E
Practice Pages
PART III
Tree, River, Carbon, Stone
11 Practicing with Trees 219Annette Arlander
Galway Road, Johannesburg, South Africa:
26.1658° S, 28.0223° E
David Bagares Street, Stockholm, Sweden: 59.3373° N,18.0687° E
Kaivopuisto Park, Helsinki, Finland: 60.1557° N, 24.9557° E
Practice Pages
12 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
Essay
13 How to Apprentice with Land in Enchanted Kinship Christine BelleroseRockcliffe Park, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: 45.4471° N, 75.6847° W
Practice Pages
14 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 Pages
PART IV
Place, Plasma, Pluriverse, Potato
15 My Place Is a Chiasmatic Dance Glen A. Mazis
Marietta, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: 40.0559° N, 76.5517° W
Essay
16 Cosmic Plasma Echoing in (Our) PlaceDebra Lacey
Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: 41.6033° N, 80.3058° W
Practice Pages
17 Languaging Body by Field: Ecoproprioception George Quasha
Barrytown, New York, U.S.A.: 41.9998° N, 73.9248° W
Essay
18 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 Pages
19 Awe and Empathy Edward S. Casey
Stony Brook, New York, U.S.A.: 40.9027° N, 73.1338° W
Essay
20 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 Pages
Index

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.

Product details

• Authors: Sondra (State University of New York Fraleigh, Sondra Riley Fraleigh
• Assisted by: Sondra Fraleigh (Editor), Fraleigh Sondra (Editor), Shannon Rose Riley (Editor), Riley Shannon Rose (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.03.2024
• EAN: 9781032479996
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3247999-6
• No. of pages: 364
• Series: Routledge Studies in Theatre, Ecology, and Performance
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Dance, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Agribusiness, ART / Performance, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Food Industry, Theatre Studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Botany & plant sciences, Performance Art, Agriculture, agribusiness and food production industries, Agriculture & Related Industries, Botany and plant sciences, Theatre;Ecology