In early April 2024, we - Katrina Brown and Emma Cocker, were working together as part of our ongoing collaboration Dorsal Practices. Specifically, we were working on how we might now evolve our project through different forms of sharing (with others) including live activations of our ‘dorsal practices’ (the three-fold relation of movement-based, conversation and experimental reading practices), as well as developing ideas for future publication. During the week, we were testing out how to bring our various practices into proximity through live activation within a studio space context, which we were also able to pilot with invited guests Rosanna Irvine and Mark Leahy.
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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 orient to self, others, world. How does the cultivation of a back-oriented awareness and attitude shape and inform our experience of being-in-the-world? A dorsal orientation foregrounds an active letting go, releasing, even de-privileging, of predominant social habits of uprightness and frontality — the head-oriented, sight-oriented, forward-facing, future-leaning tendencies of a culture intent on grasping a sense of the world through naming and control. Rather than a mode of withdrawal, of turning one’s back, how might a back-leaning orientation support a more open and receptive ethics of relation? How are experiences of listening, voicing, thinking, shaped differently through this tilt of awareness and attention towards the back?
- Emma Cocker, Katrina Brown - Dorsal Practices - 2024
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