Moving Ecologies
This short course will explore how to create tools for physical engagement with the more-than-human-world to promote ecologically sensitive encounters BOOK NOWWHEN:
Monday 9 – Friday 20 September 2024
TUTORS:
Course Leader: Dr. Rachel Sweeney | Other Teaching Staff: Satish Kumar, Andy Letcher, Anna Casey, Erin Manning, Nita Little
VENUE:
Old Postern, Schumacher College, South Devon
PRICING:
Deposit: £150*
2-weeks onsite: Monday 9 Sept – Friday 20 Sept 2024: £950 (food and accommodation not included)
Followed by 6-weeks online: Monday 30 September to 8 November 2024: £1,240 (food and accommodation, please enquire for availability)
Bursaries are available – find out more here.
IMPORTANT TO KNOW
You don't need any formal qualifications to take this course, but you need to be aware that you will be studying alongside Masters students. So that we can ensure your fit with the group, we ask that you have a short conversation with a member of the teaching team before enrolling on the course.
HOW IT WORKS
*A deposit is required to register your interest. The Programme Lead will then contact you to arrange a short call before you make the full course payment. In the event that the course is not suitable for you, the deposit will be refunded.
About this course
This short course will explore how to create tools for physical engagement with the more-than-human-world to promote ecologically sensitive encounters that will help participants attune with our environment in transformative ways. The aim of this course is to promote new notions of interconnectedness and entanglements as developed through kinaesthetic empathy and attentiveness, whilst also exploring dimensions of affective ecologies.
Working across the Dartington estate and combining a critical and collaborative movement ecology approach, participants will be encouraged to find diverse sensory modalities, including exploring inter-species storytelling, exploring trees (hi)stories, fungi networks and conversations with the river Dart. Participants will explore in lectures, practical seminars and workshops, the role of movement across different environmental experiential scales, from microscopic to climatic, as well as engaging in current critical sources exploring eco somatic movement, critical phenomenology and decolonial approaches to land-based movement. This transdisciplinary approach will further extend critical dialogues between embodied experiences and environmental theories, and to allow participants to reflect and debate on current contemporary challenges.
Dr Rachel Sweeney is a practicing movement artist specialising in transdisciplinary approaches to decolonizing body-place relationships. Her work in embodied activism draws on reciprocal practices of ecological wellbeing, restorative movement practice and deep democracy to align new values and collective strategies for reconfiguring place and people. This course is suitable for movement-based practitioners, ecologists, environmentalists, social scientists, or anyone working in physical dialogue with the natural world. Please come prepared to move both indoors and outdoors.
Who is it for
WHO IS IT FOR:
This course is suitable for movement-based practitioners, ecologists, environmentalists, social scientists, or anyone working in physical dialogue with the natural world. Please come prepared to move both indoors and outdoors.
**teaching dates
Monday 9 Sept – Friday 20 Sept 2024
Please note that the course fee does not include accommodation and meals for the on-site portion of your course.
Should you be accepted onto the course, our Short Course team will advise you on how to book one of our accommodation and catering options.
TEACHERS
Dr Rachel Sweeney
Rachel is a practicing movement artist specialising in transdisciplinary approaches to decolonizing body-place relationships, engaging creatively and imaginatively with cultural heritage and sustainability discourses.
Rachel is currently Programme Lead for the MA in Movement Mind and Ecology at Schumacher College and is graduate of the BA Theatre Degree at the former Dartington College of Arts. Read More
Book now
You will receive an e-ticket for this event. You are welcome to email us at boxoffice@dartington.org with any queries you have.
