.
.
.
.
Unfurling. Momentum. Flat. Receptivity. Sideness. Operation. Resisting. Falling in. Vibration. Feedbacking. Dropping back. Continuum. Wrapping. Twists. Activation. Opening movement. Roll. Relation. Asymmetrical. Tuning into. Slowing. Dropping into. Going this way. Appearances. Transition between. Something about. Releasing. Uncertainty. Mutual. Cutting off. Unknown. Edges. Upness and frontness. Quality of listening. Oblique diagonal. Below and behind. Heavier. Playing field. Stripping out. Force. Transition. Dip of the head. The sideness. Of falling in. Asymmetrical. Soft belly. Convoluted. Blur. Cooperation. Awareness. Resonance. Sideness. Bending. Really try. Just collapse. Cordon off. Slowing down. Thinking breath. Complex. Curiosity. Vulnerable. Horizontal forces. A field of cooperation. Back of my neck. Slip into. Deeply affect. Back and behind. Presence. Eyes scanning. Supporting hand. Sides. Kind of experience. Indirect. Resting in. Periphery. Blurring. Listening. Dissolving. Shadowy spaces. Belowness and backness. Behindness. Beneathness.
Dorsal Practices
An artistic collaboration between Katrina Brown & Emma Cocker exploring since 2021 how a back-leaning orientation and awareness can shape and inform our embodied, affective and relational experience of being-in-the-world.
Dorsal Practices — is a collaboration between choreographer Katrina Brown and writer-artist Emma Cocker, for exploring a notion of dorsality or back-leaning in relation to how we as moving bodies orientate to self, others, world. How does cultivation of a back-oriented awareness and attitude shape and inform our experience of being-in-the-world? The dorsal orientation foregrounds 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 backwards-leaning orientation support an 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?
We are methodically documenting and gathering our movement fieldwork and language-based activities in the form of transcripts, video readings, scores, etymological diversions. Here a glimpse on Research Catalogue, an open source online platform for artistic research. https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3087871/3087872