BEYOND THE THIRD BODY
Facilitated by Anna Kushnerova & Becca Parkinson

A series of gatherings In and around Dartmoor National Park: moving & divining, listening to the offerings with a reverential imagination with care and curiosity for its landscapes, the voices of non-beings and beings.

Anna will guide drawing from Butoh methods, offering transformation through somatic poetry. “We will discover our deeper body artist in reverence to all sentient matter, explore ‘becoming’ animal and plant by accessing liquid intelligence of the body and its inner multidimensional Dance.
We will evoke and translate subconscious material via imagery into experience, creating ritual, and learning from philosophy of animism in Butoh.”

Becca will offer simple movement scores and rituals to ground us physical embodied kinship with the wonders of the earth body. We will open the gateway of our senses; awakening the movement of our inner landscape as we listen and move with the language of the wild.  

Anna Kushnerova is a Butoh performance and visual artist. Anna has presented in numerous international shows. Her performances are a blend of dance, costume, sculpture and sound. Often working with ritual and ceremony her practice resulted in many dance pieces and videos, which are site responsive and improvised in nature. Collaborating with artists from diverse disciplines has given her a broad approach to her movement practice. https://annakushnerova.com/

Becca Parkinson is an Open Floor Teacher, Environmental Movement and Arts Psychotherapist and artist. They have studied with Helen Ponor in non-stylised environmental movement and hold an MA in Dance Movement Psychotherapy. Their work explores physical encounters between the human body and the earth body while working with movement, soundscapes, ritual, performance, arts, and healing practices. Their work draws on queer ecology perspectives, and is curious to how immersive and sensate encounters in the natural environment enlivens possibility, fluidity, diversity of being, and movement beyond binaries; transforming embodied scripts. They have a deep love of the wild, feeling most at home amongst the granite, waters, moss and trees of Dartmoor.

www.movinglandscapes.org