Geographies of Us

<p><em>Geographies of Us: Ecosomatic Essays and Practice Pages </em>is the first edited collection in the field of ecosomatics.</p><p>With a combination of essays and practice pages that provide a variety of scholarly, creative, and experience-based approaches for readers, the book brings together both established and emergent scholars and artists from many diverse backgrounds and covers work rooted in a dozen countries. The essays engage an array of crucial methodologies and critical/theoretical perspectives, including practice-based research in the arts, especially in performance and dance studies, critical theory, ecocriticism, Indigenous knowledges, material feminist critique, quantum field theory, and new phenomenologies. Practice pages are shorter chapters that provide readers a chance to engage creatively with the ideas presented across the collection. This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective that brings together work in performance as research, phenomenology, and dance/movement; this is one of its significant contributions to the area of ecosomatics.</p><p>The book will be of interest to anyone curious about matters of embodiment, ecology, and the environment, especially artists and students of dance, performance, and somatic movement education who want to learn about ecosomatics and environmental activists who want to learn more about integrating creativity, the arts, and movement into their work.</p> <p><i>Land Acknowledgments </i><br><i>List of Contributors </i><br><i>List of Figures </i><br><i>Ear and Heart to Earth with Gratitude</i><br><i>(Acknowledgements)</i></p><p>Introduction: Locating Geographies of Us <br>Sondra Fraleigh and Shannon Rose Riley<br>St. George, Utah, U.S.A: 37.0941° N, 113.5749° W<br>Fremont, California, U.S.A.: 37.5483° N, 121.9886° W</p><p><b>PART I</b><br><b>Enworlding, Rewilding, Decentering, Transing/</b><b>Pluraling, Performing, Attending to, Dancing</b></p><p>1 A Critical Ecosomatics: Cultivating Awareness and Imagination <br><i>Shannon Rose Riley</i><br><i>Grau Pond, Fremont, California, U.S.A.: 37.5735° N,</i><i>121.9847° W</i><br><i>Essay</i></p><p>2 What Native American Dance Does and the Stakes of Ecosomatics <i>Tria Blu Wakpa<br>University of California, Los Angeles, California,<br>U.S.A.: 34.0700° N, 118.4442° W<br>South Dakota State Penitentiary, Sioux Falls,<br>South Dakota, U.S.A.: 43.5668° N, 96.7250° W<br>Essay</i></p><p>3 Ecosomatic Performance Research for the Pluriverse <i>Daniel Ìgbín’bí Coleman<br>San Cristóbal de las Casas, México: 16.7370° N, 92.6376° W<br>Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.: 33.7532° N, 84.3853° W<br>Practice Pages</i></p><p>4 Material/ Material: Thousandfold Somas and Poetry of Emergence<i>Sondra Fraleigh<br>St. George, Utah, U.S.A.: 37.0941° N, 113.5749° W<br>Essay</i></p><p>5 Decentering the Human through Butoh <i>Lani Weissbach<br>Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A.: 39.7684° N, 86.1581° W<br>Practice Pages</i></p><p>6 Shaky Islands and Rising Seas: Dancing Entanglements in the Global South <i>Karen Barbour<br>Kirikiriroa (Hamilton), Aotearoa (New Zealand): 37.7869° S, 175.3185° E<br>Essay</i></p><p><b>PART II</b><br><b>Horse, Lion, Queer Animal, Skin</b></p><p>7 Crittercal Somaticity: Rewilding Our Horse Senses <br><i>Stephen Smith</i><br><i>Pitt Meadows, British Colombia, Canada: 49.3058° N,</i><i>122.6057° W</i><br><i>Essay</i></p><p>8 Moving with Cats<i>Shannon Rose Riley<br>The Berlin Zoological Garden, Berlin, Germany: 52.5079° N, 13.3378° E<br>Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany: 52.4911° N, 13.4127° E<br>Private multispecies dwelling, Fremont, California,<br>U.S.A.: 37.5483° N, 121.9886° W<br>Practice Pages</i></p><p>9 Embodying Islands: Ecosomatics and the Transnational Queer <i>Fei Shi<br>Nex̱ wlélex̱ m (Bowen Island), Canada: 49.3768° N, 123.3702° W<br>Chongming Island, China: 31.6813° N, 121.4820° E<br>Essay</i></p><p>10 Skinbody and the Skin of the Earth <i>Alison (Ali) East<br>Otepoti (Dunedin), Aotearoa (New Zealand): 45.8795° S, 170.5006° E<br>Practice Pages</i></p><p><b>PART III</b><br><b>Tree, River, Carbon, Stone</b></p><p>11 Practicing with Trees 219<b></b><i>Annette Arlander</i><br><i>Galway Road, Johannesburg, South Africa:</i><br><i>26.1658° S, 28.0223° E</i><br><i>David Bagares Street, Stockholm, Sweden: 59.3373° N,</i><i>18.0687° E</i><br><i>Kaivopuisto Park, Helsinki, Finland: 60.1557° N, </i><i>24.9557° E</i><br><i>Practice Pages</i></p><p>12 Fearless Belonging and River- Me <i>Adesola Akinleye<br>Thames River, London, U.K.: 51.4925° N, 0.0288° W<br>Mystic River, Boston, Massachusetts: U.S.A.: 42.3979° N, 71.0797° W<br>Denton, Texas, U.S.A.: 33.2302° N, 97.1213° W<br>Essay</i></p><p>13 How to Apprentice with Land in Enchanted Kinship Christine Bellerose<i>Rockcliffe Park, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: 45.4471° N, 75.6847° W<br>Practice Pages</i></p><p>14 Feel the Carbon under Your Footprint: Indigenous Approaches to Grounding <i>Nathalie Guillaume<br>Kūkaniloko Birthstones State Monument,<br>O’ahu, Hawaii: 21.5048° N, 158.0364° W<br>Port- au- Prince, Republic of Haiti: 18.5358° N, 72.3331° W<br>Practice Pages</i></p><p><b>PART IV<br>Place, Plasma, Pluriverse, Potato</b></p><p>15 My Place Is a Chiasmatic Dance <i>Glen A. Mazis<br>Marietta, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: 40.0559° N, 76.5517° W<br>Essay</i></p><p>16 Cosmic Plasma Echoing in (Our) Place<i>Debra Lacey<br>Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: 41.6033° N, 80.3058° W<br>Practice Pages</i></p><p>17 Languaging Body by Field: Ecoproprioception <i>George Quasha<br>Barrytown, New York, U.S.A.: 41.9998° N, 73.9248° W<br>Essay</i></p><p>18 Outdoor Dances: Meditations on Loss in the Finger Lakes and Beyond <i>Missy Pfohl Smith<br>Finger Lakes, New York, U.S.A.: 42.7238° N, 76.9297° W<br>Practice Pages</i></p><p>19 Awe and Empathy <i>Edward S. Casey<br>Stony Brook, New York, U.S.A.: 40.9027° N, 73.1338° W<br>Essay</i></p><p>20 Enworlding Place Dances and Potatoes <i>Sondra Fraleigh<br>Snow Canyon, Utah, U.S.A.: 37.2145° N, 113.6402° W<br>Yokohama, Japan: 35.4437° N, 139.6380° E<br>Circleville, Utah, U.S.A.: 38.1688° N, 112.2696° W<br>Practice Pages</i></p><p><i>Index</i></p>