Dancing with Plants and Landscapes

Abstract

This article shares an interdisciplinary artistic experience that weaves ecosomatic practices and dance as ways to cultivate attention, attunement, and care in our relationship with the Earth. The research is grounded in the methodology of practice as research, as proposed by Robin Nelson, which recognizes artistic gesture as a legitimate form of knowledge production that arises from embodied experience, experimentation, and reflective articulation between theory and practice. The text interlaces theoretical excerpts, images from creative processes, and memory fragments from the author’s own experience, forming a body-text that performs its own inquiry. The ecosomatic approach adopted here understands the body not as an isolated entity, but as a sensitive medium of inscription and resonance with the world, activating shared perceptions between human and more-than-human beings. The article also draws on André Lepecki’s concept of choreopolitics, which emphasizes the micropolitical power of bodies in motion as critical and resistant forces against regimes of control and normalization. By approaching artistic practice as an ethical and political gesture, the research seeks to choreograph ways of inhabiting climate crisis with radical attention and sensitive imagination, offering pathways for inquiry in which art, body, and ecology are deeply entangled.