I Dance Land: An Apprenticeship with Wind and Water: Depatterning Somatic Amnesia, Repatterning Ecosomatic Senses

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dc.contributor.advisorFisher-Stitt, Norma Sue
dc.contributor.authorBellerose, Christine
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-15T15:26:54Z
dc.date.available2021-11-15T15:26:54Z
dc.date.copyright2021-06
dc.date.issued2021-11-15
dc.date.updated2021-11-15T15:26:54Z
dc.degree.disciplineDance Studies
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractThis doctoral research relates the somatic, sensory awareness, and eco-performative processes through which I seek to depattern my somatic amnesia and repattern my ecosomatic relationship to the land – a portal into what it means to move and think with the land and to ground knowledge by way of sensing and moving. EcoSomatics enlarges the notion of sensory motor amnesia by attending to ecosomatic disenchantment. This intuitive, site dance, performance as research bridges movement-based somatic art (somadance) with movement-based performance art (eco-performance). "I Dance Land" ecosomatic land-based epistemology is a hand-based philosophy founded on values of co-creation, reciprocity, mutuality, and continuity across differences, at the nexus of multiple somatic dimensions lived, apprenticing with wind and water, dancing and being danced by the land, and writing with mountain. The notion of somatic drives – senses of existing, awareness, attuning, and empathy –, delimiting a performance milieu, fleshing-out a notion of guesthood – arriving, waiting for an invitation, introducing myself and my art to the land, settling into, and not over-extending my stay –, sensing cold as texture, stepping into a place-of-not-cold, moving at the speed of ice, and finding ease in tension, are living and growing methods and techniques developed during this research journey. These lessons are methodologically rigorous, and generate a renewed intimacy with the land as they manifest in the somatic architecture my body dances. I include twelve autoethnographic case studies performed during the winter season's cold and summer's heat in Canada, the continental United States and Hawaii from 2013 to 2019. Not all make sense at the threshold between the real and the imagined, however, "I Dance Land" challenges the colonial legacy of Anglo-English culture of distrusting the body, sense, land, and meaning-making relationship. From the process of unwinding my aesthetic research journey emerges a praxis of relational eco-wellness that can be taught to dancers and non-dancers alike. Depatterning somatic amnesia, repatterning ecosomatic senses has rich implication for not only Somatics and EcoSomatics, but also for Phenomenology, Ecofeminism, Dance Studies, Performance Studies, and Settler-colonial scholarship, as well as laying the groundwork for research and community ecosomatic wellness projects involving somatic attentiveness.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/38698
dc.languageen
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dc.subjectPhilosophy
dc.subject.keywordsAesthetic research journey
dc.subject.keywordsApprenticeship with wind and water
dc.subject.keywordsArtist-researcher
dc.subject.keywordsArts-based research
dc.subject.keywordsA sense of attuning
dc.subject.keywordsA sense of awareness
dc.subject.keywordsA sense of existing
dc.subject.keywordsA sense of orientation
dc.subject.keywordsA sense of others existing
dc.subject.keywordsA sense of transport
dc.subject.keywordsAutoethnography
dc.subject.keywordsBodied
dc.subject.keywordsBody as a site of research
dc.subject.keywordsBody-based
dc.subject.keywordsBody mind spirit heart
dc.subject.keywordsCall-and-response
dc.subject.keywordsCanada
dc.subject.keywordsCentering
dc.subject.keywordsChoreography
dc.subject.keywordsCiane Fernandes
dc.subject.keywordsCo-creation
dc.subject.keywordsCold
dc.subject.keywordsColonial legacy
dc.subject.keywordsContinuity across differences
dc.subject.keywordsContour-ing
dc.subject.keywordsCommunication
dc.subject.keywordsConversation
dc.subject.keywordsCold as texture
dc.subject.keywordsColonial cultural history
dc.subject.keywordsCultural somatic amnesia
dc.subject.keywordsCuriosity
dc.subject.keywordsDance studies
dc.subject.keywordsDance workshop
dc.subject.keywordsDancing and being danced
dc.subject.keywordsDancing with
dc.subject.keywordsDancing with land
dc.subject.keywordsDepatterning
dc.subject.keywordsDepatterning somatic amnesia
dc.subject.keywordsDisenchanting
dc.subject.keywordsDon Hanlon Johnson
dc.subject.keywordsEase in tension
dc.subject.keywordsEcofeminism
dc.subject.keywordsEcology
dc.subject.keywordsEco-performance
dc.subject.keywordsEco-performative processes
dc.subject.keywordsEcosomatic
dc.subject.keywordsEcosomatic activism
dc.subject.keywordsEcosomatic awareness
dc.subject.keywordsEcosomatic land-based epistemology
dc.subject.keywordsEcosomatic research methodology
dc.subject.keywordsEcosomatic praxis
dc.subject.keywordsEcosomatic theory
dc.subject.keywordsEcosomatic wellness
dc.subject.keywordsEdmund Husserl
dc.subject.keywordsEpoqué
dc.subject.keywordsEmbodied research methodology
dc.subject.keywordsEmpathy
dc.subject.keywordsEnchanted kinship
dc.subject.keywordsErlebnis
dc.subject.keywordsEuropean cultural heritage
dc.subject.keywordsExperience
dc.subject.keywordsExperiential
dc.subject.keywordsExtero-reception
dc.subject.keywordsExtreme climate
dc.subject.keywordsExtreme weather
dc.subject.keywordsFailure
dc.subject.keywordsFelt real and imagined
dc.subject.keywordsFlow
dc.subject.keywordsFluidity
dc.subject.keywordsFunctional
dc.subject.keywordsFundamental relationship to the land
dc.subject.keywordsFund of lived experiences
dc.subject.keywordsGestures
dc.subject.keywordsGreta Gaard
dc.subject.keywordsGrounding in movement
dc.subject.keywordsGuesthood
dc.subject.keywordsHabit
dc.subject.keywordsHealing
dc.subject.keywordsHypothermia
dc.subject.keywordsIce
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous Natural Law
dc.subject.keywordsImprovised dance
dc.subject.keywordsInhabiting
dc.subject.keywordsIntuitive dance
dc.subject.keywordsInner
dc.subject.keywordsin situ
dc.subject.keywordsInvitation
dc.subject.keywordsInterconnection
dc.subject.keywordsInterrelation
dc.subject.keywordsIntero-reception
dc.subject.keywordsHands-on philosophy
dc.subject.keywordsHawai‘i
dc.subject.keywordsHumility
dc.subject.keywordsJohn Kegedonce Borrows
dc.subject.keywordsKeening
dc.subject.keywordsKelly Mullan
dc.subject.keywordsLake
dc.subject.keywordsLand
dc.subject.keywordsEcoSomatics
dc.subject.keywordsLand-based epistemologies
dc.subject.keywordsLayers
dc.subject.keywordsLeanne Betasamosake Simpson
dc.subject.keywordsLearning
dc.subject.keywordsLebenswelt
dc.subject.keywordsLe corps propre
dc.subject.keywordsLee Maracle
dc.subject.keywordsLifeworld
dc.subject.keywordsLiminal
dc.subject.keywordsLived body
dc.subject.keywordsLiving and growing methods and techniques
dc.subject.keywordsMartha Eddy
dc.subject.keywordsMaurice Merleau-Ponty
dc.subject.keywordsMaxine Sheets-Johnstone
dc.subject.keywordsMemories
dc.subject.keywordsMountain
dc.subject.keywordsMovement art praxis
dc.subject.keywordsMovement-based performance art
dc.subject.keywordsPerformance art action
dc.subject.keywordsMoving consciously
dc.subject.keywordsMoving-thinking
dc.subject.keywordsMultiple
dc.subject.keywordsMutual
dc.subject.keywordsMutuality
dc.subject.keywordsNishnaabeg
dc.subject.keywordsNishnaabek
dc.subject.keywordsNon-dancers
dc.subject.keywordsOcean
dc.subject.keywordsOtherworld
dc.subject.keywordsOuter
dc.subject.keywordsOverlap
dc.subject.keywordsPattern
dc.subject.keywordsPath of least resistance
dc.subject.keywordsPerception
dc.subject.keywordsPerformance milieu
dc.subject.keywordsPerformative listening
dc.subject.keywordsPerformance Studies
dc.subject.keywordsPersonal somatic amnesia
dc.subject.keywordsPerformance as research
dc.subject.keywordsPhenomenology
dc.subject.keywordsPhenomenon
dc.subject.keywordsPlace-before-not-cold
dc.subject.keywordsPlace of calling
dc.subject.keywordsPortal
dc.subject.keywordsPractical
dc.subject.keywordsPractice
dc.subject.keywordsPractice-based
dc.subject.keywordsPraxis
dc.subject.keywordsPraxis of relational eco-wellness
dc.subject.keywordsPraxitioner
dc.subject.keywordsPresencing choices
dc.subject.keywordsPresencing presence
dc.subject.keywordsProcess-based
dc.subject.keywordsRekindling
dc.subject.keywordsRemembering
dc.subject.keywordsRepatterning
dc.subject.keywordsRepatterning ecosomatic senses
dc.subject.keywordsRIver
dc.subject.keywordsRooting and moving
dc.subject.keywordsSense-based
dc.subject.keywordsSense-based and land-based
dc.subject.keywordsSense-perception
dc.subject.keywordsSenses and non-sense
dc.subject.keywordsSensory awareness
dc.subject.keywordsSensory motor amnesia
dc.subject.keywordsSettle down
dc.subject.keywordsSettler-colonial scholarship
dc.subject.keywordsSettler responsibility
dc.subject.keywordsSharon Blackie
dc.subject.keywordsSilvia Federici
dc.subject.keywordsSimone De Beauvoir
dc.subject.keywordsSite dance
dc.subject.keywordsSolo dance
dc.subject.keywordsSoma
dc.subject.keywordsSomas
dc.subject.keywordsSoma-body
dc.subject.keywordsSomadance
dc.subject.keywordsSoma-land
dc.subject.keywordsSomatic
dc.subject.keywordsSomatic activism
dc.subject.keywordsSomatic amnesia
dc.subject.keywordsSomatic architecture
dc.subject.keywordsSomatic attentiveness
dc.subject.keywordsSomatic awareness
dc.subject.keywordsSomatic blockages
dc.subject.keywordsSomatic dimensions
dc.subject.keywordsSomatic drives
dc.subject.keywordsSomatic engagement
dc.subject.keywordsSomatic land-based epistemology
dc.subject.keywordsSomatics
dc.subject.keywordsSomatics scholarship
dc.subject.keywordsSomatic praxis
dc.subject.keywordsSomatic theory
dc.subject.keywordsSondra Fraleigh
dc.subject.keywordsSovereign somas
dc.subject.keywordsSpellbound
dc.subject.keywordsSpellboundness
dc.subject.keywordsSnow
dc.subject.keywordsStories
dc.subject.keywordsStorytelling
dc.subject.keywordsSuspension of judgment
dc.subject.keywordsSylvie Fortin
dc.subject.keywordsSylvie Tourangeau
dc.subject.keywordsTheory
dc.subject.keywordsTime-space
dc.subject.keywordsTree
dc.subject.keywordsTrusting
dc.subject.keywordsTurtle Island
dc.subject.keywordsTuning-in
dc.subject.keywordsUnited States
dc.subject.keywordsUnwinding
dc.subject.keywordsUnwinding aesthetic expression
dc.subject.keywordsUnwinding aesthetic journey
dc.subject.keywordsVal Plumwood
dc.subject.keywordsValue of adaptability
dc.subject.keywordsValue of continuity
dc.subject.keywordsValue of flourishment
dc.subject.keywordsValue of honoring differences
dc.subject.keywordsValue of humility
dc.subject.keywordsValue of mutuality
dc.subject.keywordsValue of reciprocity
dc.subject.keywordsVisions
dc.subject.keywordsWater
dc.subject.keywordsWind
dc.subject.keywordsWonder
dc.subject.keywordsWonderment
dc.subject.keywordsWorldview
dc.subject.keywordsWorkshop
dc.subject.keywordsWriting with mountain
dc.titleI Dance Land: An Apprenticeship with Wind and Water: Depatterning Somatic Amnesia, Repatterning Ecosomatic Senses
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