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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 orientate to self, others, and world. How does the cultivation of a back-oriented awareness and attitude shape and inform our experience of being-in-the-world? 


On this page, we gather recordings from a series of 'Dorsal Reading' practices undertaken over a two year period (from 2021 ongoing). These are improvisatory reading practices, where we are each reading live fragments from conversational transcripts generated in relation to the live and embodied experience of dorsal practising.

12 July 2021

04 August 2021

16 August 2021

13 September 2021

18 October 2021

16 May 2022

6 June 2022

25 June 2022

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06 April 2023

30 August 2023

Dorsal Reading (27 May 2024) – recording of an improvisatory reading practice for re-turning to transcript material from a series of conversations (October 2022 and February 2024) generated within the collaborative research project Dorsal Practices.