Raffaele Rufo in conversation with Jessica Cudney and Michelle Rozek presented at the EcoSomatics Conversation Series: Environmental Awareness through Movement, hosted by the Centre for Interdisciplinary Performative Arts, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire (Birmingham City University), in collaboration with Birmingham Dance Network.

Without being too specific, this title opens up the door to speak of place, land, sensing, with-ness and spaciousness as multiple embodied relations that are not only individualized and present but also communal and across generations. Some of these words are more poetic than "ecosomatic connectedness"; the key differentiating aspect for us could be the exploration of how these elements which are shared across the field of ecosomatics are connected with cultural regeneration, which then opens up the door to talk about civilization, de/anti/non-coloniality, roots, heritage, belonging…During our preparatory meetings we also reflected on our reciprocal role during the conversation as one of facilitation - we will be exploring certain things and the others will be supporting that exploration through facilitation (rather than one asking questions to the other). We believe shared facilitation (in this case clearly structured as one exploring and the other facilitating and then swapping roles) is a response to knowing that we are nature-body and a way to further the ways in which ecosomatics can help us come into resonance with one another.

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