Author: karenb530
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Site-specific performance workshop
1-2 February 2024, University of Newcastle, Australia In collaboration with A/Prof Michelle Duffy, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, this workshop with PhD students, artists and researchers focussed on critical discussion and exploration of a reoccurring question : What does it feel like to engage in practices, processes and relations that help us understand and seek ways…
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Dance Studies Association Conference, 12-16 October 2022
The Dance Studies Association provided an opportunity for me to work with colleagues Melanie Kloetzel, Alana Gerecke and Vicky Hunter in hosting a ‘hub’ called ‘Dance, Anti-colonialism and Place-Based Praxis’. This hub met three times for 1.5 hours during the DSA conference and was a most extraordinary gathering of people interested in the topic. While…
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Eastwest Somatics 7-11 October 2022
Eco-somatic improvisations in Chemung. My work with Eastwest Somatics Institute continued in Elmira, NY this month beginning with presenting at our conference about my research on ”Eco-somatic practices and action competence for ecological anxiety.’ During the four day workshops that followed, I was very happy to teach alongside Amy Bush and Michelle Ikle with a…
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Contained Roots
Contained Roots, USM campus, 29th September 2022 By Karen Barbour and Kelly Lester. Dancers: Natalie Davis, Nelly Dounseroux, Emma Dunaway, Gabby Bass, Aki Holder, Saryah Jones, Meagan Obiol, Emaliegh Ousterhout, Mikail Samuels, Natalie Sunseri. Takin’ a stroll (from Heatwave by Brian Grey) Feels like rain (from Feels like rain by Buddy Guy featuring Bonnie Rait)…
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Site dance creative process (September 2022)
For the past 5 weeks, Kelly Lester and I have collaborated with dance students in the Repertory Dance Company at USM to create a new site-specific dance work on campus, engaging with architecture and swamp cypress trees in a campus site nearby the Theatre and Dance building. The dancers spent time mapping the site with…
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Seneca Lake (12-13 July 2022)
Seeking in the depths Cool lake and summer evenings Reaching skyward pines In early July I had the opportunity to visit Amy on Seneca Lake. We spent a marvellous few days catching up on the years and sharing our more recent Eastwest Somatics and dance activities. (I also intended to join a somatics conference but…
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Shin Somatics
Our Shin Somatics Magnolia petals lead Heels into spirals Acknowledging Kelly Lester for this somatic imagery. One of the glorious aspects of Shin Somatics, developed through Eastwest Somatics and the work of Sondra Fraleigh, is the imagery that informs movement. https://www.eastwestsomatics.com/
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Thunderstorms (early August 2022)
Hazy soaking joy Porous skin and earth’s breathing Thunderstorms last night
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Solstice (21 July 2022)
Crepe Myrtle flowers Decorate the summer night Mississippi heat Sultry summer nights Rising heat from earth body Matariki home
Dr Karen Barbour 