Each and any experience is enacted, entangled, and formed through cultural life. We breathe and slow down when we are able, and sometimes this brings a sense of space and belonging, and as the same time, or other times, the experience is affixed to the past, to the densities and traumas of cultural life. Through the view of sensing culture, one can develop an embodied practice that is subtle, sensorial, felt, and at the same time conscious of the cultural markers and forces that form the context from which the experience emerges. How can we embody and form a presence that can hold emotions, sensations, consiousness, and sense and receive? How can we fall back on our ancestry, our cultural wisdom? Yes, indeed, the experience of embodiment is grown through socialization and education, and how we develop our sense of what is possible is inextricably linked to our self-image. The violences of supremacy, fatphobia, dissociation, anti-blackness, racialization, all live alongside a potential for liveness, texture, receptivity of context that expands and enriches contours, spaciousness, color, shadow, and light. Movement Culture, Sensing Culture is a forum and a place and space to work with this palette of experience, supported, curious, with the fullness of life, itself.
