Emma Bige
Movements within me that are not my own, movements through which my interdependencies with other earthly creatures are brought to my consciousness. Movements of my breathing, movements of my digestion, movements of my posture as it perpetually adjusts to gravity.
Spend some time in dance studios and you learn that we human mammals, the inhabitants of Terra, are moved by a multitude of forces. Far from being automotive, far from being contained or containable in the little factory of our bodies, we overflow. Scientific ecologies convince us of this, and political ecologies call on us to turn it into an insurrectionary force. What if we learned, with somatic ecologies, to feel and celebrate our more-than-human overflows?
At a time when the Earth’s uprisings are multiplying, this book examines the way in which certain forms of dance (collective improvisations, somatic practices, choreographic installations) attempt to elaborate, in the folds of the globalized world, antidotes to anesthesia. Ways of linking our gestures beyond the false boundaries of the individual and the human. Ways of dancing-feeling-thinking the entanglement of our movements.
The book shares and discusses the “dying and decomposing practice” from BodyCartography’s Resisting Extinction. A review was also published in Libération.