In this workshop we’ll explore ways of listening in movement, to some of our inheritances in form and behavior from across generations. We’ll spend some time, too, in the company of other-than-human primates, appreciating the wider family of creatures to which we belong. Our approach will incorporate multi-sensory materials, movement games and experiments, and selected footage from a field researcher’s video collection. Facilitation by Julie Nathanielsz, with support from Wendy Erb.
Julie Nathanielsz, MFA, is an artist, teacher, and bodyworker working in the field of dance and somatic practice for over 20 years. Trained in biological anthropology and behavioral ecology, Dr Wendy Erb studies the behavior, communication, and conservation of wild primates. This experimental workshop arises in part from conversations between Julie and Wendy enjoyed over the last ten years.
In the movement arts, we turn to metaphors of animal movement as gateways to self-discovery, community health, and physical language. This workshop proposes a fresh field of possibility, by including conservationists who, also, are influenced and altered by inhabitants of the forest, and who recognize the interdependence of species on our planet. We are in fact all of us researchers, engaged in conscious and unconscious bodily intercommunication every day. At it’s base, this session is an opportunity to play within a wide field of movement possibilities, with multi-sensory materials, field recordings, other-than-human primates, environments and atmospheres.
