~ISMETA Conference - Engaging Embodiment: Somatic Applications for Health, Education and Social Justice
~UCLA TAPS Contact - Performing Proximity, Working Session on Unsettling Matter(s)
~UC DAVIS Performance Studies First Year PhD Presentation
~through self-organized courses, both live and online
~Oakland Summer School Public School
Unsettling as a Creative, Embodied, Practice in Place
New Landings is a field of inquiry that invites participants to explore how practices of subtle and sensing movement, in receptivity with one’s surroundings, can provide a key for just actions in this time. “Landings” refers to the act of physically settling, and the potential for accountability and reciprocity as settlers find a relationship to place that is in right relation, and “New” suggests that creative act of making movement can provide a contribution to building culture. New Landings emerged through decades of embodied practice, particularly Amerta Movement, a movement meditation practice initiated by Javanese artist Suprapto Suryodarmo, Lisa Nelson's Tuning Scores, and somatic practice. New Landings invites participants to unsettle the somatic experience; offers conversation, collective intimacy and critical reflection; is multi-modal; provides space for the unknown; and enacts a forum for composing and offering with one another. It is an embodied ecological practice in coming apart and together, tuning in connection with body and environment.
