Dancesong

Dancesong is a reflective article that explores the author’s somatic and dance practice in times of isolation in a pandemic: walking, dancing and writing in sites in proximity to her home. On the edge of wild and urban landscapes as well as the inner landscape of fragility, she takes her feet walking as a way of opening up attention and exploring the intimacy of embodied ways of inquiry. Mud, sea, soil and flora become the terrain where these somatic and poetic reflections occur. In a collaboration with creation, the invitation is to respond to the moment through tiny dances and inhabiting the fullness of what it means to be present. As an arts-based researcher, this article is written in poetic and visceral language, honouring the relationship between language emerging from the breath and syntax of flesh and blood, bone and ligaments. Poetic language and poetry are central to responding to creation and being recreated as a way of articulating. Peppered through this short piece is poetry, images and videos of movement practices that evoke a call and response in creation. The reader is invited to open to the wisdom of embodied knowing and be recreated through their own somatic practices.