This issue offers Four articles with authors from diverse backgrounds.
The article, Moving Words, Thinking Movement: Three Peruvian Approaches to Dance and Diversity, authored by Pamela Santana-Oliveros discusses the work of Peruvian artists exploring the intersection of traditional and contemporary dance practices. Santana-Oliveros frames the practices and processes of the artists within an evolving Peruvian identity as an innovative push that contends with questions of fusion, decolonization, diversity, and the history of Peru which often separates the traditional from the contemporary in dance practice.Elise Butterfield contributes Searching for the Symbiocene in Alice Gosti’s “Bodies of Water,” which utilizes Glenn Albrecht’s concept of the Symbiocene to explore Alice Gosti’s durational public dance work, Bodies of Water (2016). The article argues for a harmonious relationship between human beings and the environment as understood through movement. Gosti’s site-specific work provides insight into relationships, presence and care, as well as offering a level of complexity necessary to address the often-paradoxical relationship between humans and their environment inherent in the Symbiocene.
In Meg Kirchhoff’s Lakes and Bodies: A Somatic Posthuman Praxis, the author explores the entanglement of humans with the environment by analyzing her somatic movement practice as an “ecological-self.” She outlines her practices with breath, touch, and witnessing in relationship with a forest, a lake, and a field. The interconnectedness reveals a sharing of undercurrent exchanges with the world around us, offering a perspective of an emerging ecological self.
In Shanny Rann's Blurring of boundaries in Homeostatic: a dance film review, is a review of the practice and the dance technique. the author explores the performance practice of a specific dance production the homeostatic.
