Ecosomatic practices for dying and decomposing workshop with Olive Bieringa

In this workshop we will explore practices from BodyCartography’s performance work Resisting Extinction. Resisting Extinction seeks to generate new practices for living and dying together on, in and with a damaged Earth. This work unfolds as an ongoing, iterative process through participatory, site-sensitive and trans-temporal performances in forests and along bodies of water. This research is part of Olive's doctoral work at the Theater department at the University of the Arts Helsinki. In this workshop we will practice warm up and practice weather walks, a one-on-one performance journey through the landscape. What begins as small talk about the weather transforms into a meaningful exchange about the climate crisis. As we walk, we draw on tools from dance, somatics, philosophy, and ecology to open perception and embodied relational awareness. weather walk invites participants into an immersive encounter, a potential state of falling into awe and connection. This will be followed by a collective dying and decomposing practice to prepare for different climate scenarios, a physiological journey into the land or sea.