Explore intersections between embodied practice and environment-based creative arts enquiry through movement workshops, reflexive writing and classroom-based discussion.

  • Explore transdisciplinary exchange between movement, ecology, art, ecosomatics and cartography.
  • Engage with ideas and perspectives on Moving Embodied Ecologies and their implications for practice, research and scholarship.
  • Develop connections and networks with fellow participants from diverse disciplinary fields of practice and research.

Join us for the inaugural Moving Ecologies Summer School, facilitated by the Creative Practice and Embodied Knowledges Research Group (CPEK).

Over two days you’ll take part in an immersive, experimental, and informative learning experience, exploring intersections between embodied practice, deep ecology, somatic screendance, feminist new materialisms, and environment-based creative arts enquiry.

You’ll take part in:

  • Movement practice outside and inside the studio
  • Walking art practice and mark making
  • Embodied mapping – capturing movement responses through creative cartography
  • Creative writing responses to practical enquiry
  • Theoretical lectures and discussions.

Set in the beautiful grounds of our Newton Park campus, close to the UNESCO Heritage City of Bath, the Summer School will include site-based workshops, reflexive writing and mark making, classroom-based discussion, and time for socialising.

Moving Ecologies Summer School is open to artists, researchers, scholars, practitioners and the public interested in embodied approaches to human-nature space enquiry. No previous movement experience is required – just a curiosity about the body and embodied knowledge as a mode of exploring human-nonhuman environment relations.

Overview

Convened by Professor Vicky Hunter, Moving Ecologies Summer School will bring together artists, researchers, creative practitioners, scholars, and students in embodied practical and theoretical explorations of human-nonhuman relations and ecological engagements.

You’ll engage in interdisciplinary exchange and collaborative learning in which themes of human-nonhuman agency, corporeality, embodied research methods and eco-consciousness intersect with wider socio-political themes of climate justice and environmental advocacy.

You’ll have space and time to engage with ideas and perspectives on Moving Embodied Ecologies and their implications for practice, research and scholarship, whilst having the opportunity to develop connections and networks with fellow participants from diverse disciplinary fields of practice and research.

Moving Ecologies Summer School will take place at Newton Park campus, Bath.

The next course takes place Monday 15 June, 2pm – 5pm and Tuesday 16 June, 9:30am – 4pm.

This short course costs £75 per person.

Refreshments (tea, coffee) and learning materials will be provided but you will need to bring your own meals / lunch and a recyclable / renewable cup for hot drinks.

Meet the team

The Summer School features workshops and insights by distinguished experts in their fields; Karen Barbour (Site-Dance, Ethnography and Somatics, University of Waikato, Aotearoa), Heike Salzer (Senior Lecturer in Dance, University of Roehampton UK – specialist in Site-based movement and film making, UK) and Professor Vicky Hunter (Site-based body practice and ecosomatics, Bath Spa University, UK).

You’ll explore Karen’s practice-based site dance approach, fostering embodied ways of knowing place through creative arts practice attending to environmental and climate change, Heike’s Wanderlust method, in somatic landscapes involving wandering with a camera as a joyful mode of making screendance through landscape dialogues, and Vicky’s method of site-based body practice as a mode of invoking human-nonhuman relations informed by phenomenological and feminist new materialist perspectives.

Terms and conditions

Read the terms and conditions for taking part in this short course.

Contact us

For more information about the course please email your enquiries to shortcourses@bathspa.ac.uk .

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Image credit: Heike Salzer