Embodying Loss Symposium

A one-day symposium engaging in conversations about how we experience profound loss and how we attend to it in our bodies.

The day will include a blend of interdisciplinary presentations, performances and film screenings across the boundaries of artistic, medical and therapeutic approaches.

Booking & Details: estore.roehampton.ac.uk
Cost: £20 (Students)/£45 (Waged)
Updates:embodyingloss.blogspot.com
Queries:

Your Story Calls Me

A new and poignant film and photographic exhibition featuring ten autobiographical performances of loss and grief. The screenings and exhibitions will take place throughout 2012 across UK arts venues, GP surgeries and Hospitals in South West London and Oxfordshire.
Screenings: 20th June 2012 as part of the Embodying Loss Symposium (see above) & 29th September 2012 Pegasus Theatre, Oxford
Booking: pegasustheatre.org
Tel: 01865 812150

Moving Voices Workshops

The Moving Voices workshop offers an embodied and creative approach to working with the sometimes bewildering and unspeakable feelings that emerge when someone close to us dies.

Drawing from somatic, dance movement and writing techniques, the weekend workshop offers a space for participants to explore the experience of loss and grief. The workshop is aimed at professionals (artists, therapists, nurses, etc.) who both work with and have experienced loss.

No prior experience or training in somatic, dance movement or writing techniques is required.

A safe and creative environment will be facilitated by experienced practitioners Beatrice Allegranti and Jonathan Wyatt.

Date: 29th & 30th September 2012
Time: 10:00-5:00
Cost: £150
Booking: pegasustheatre.org
Tel: 01865 812150

Venue:
Pegasus Theatre
Magdalen Road,
Oxford OX4 1RE

Becoming Bodies

From 2009-2011, with a commission from the hYbrid project at the Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, University of Porto, Beatrice developed Becoming Bodies, a project that aims to engage in a dialogue between dance movement psychotherapy, performance practice and scientific knowledge. Becoming Bodies culminates with a 34 min [colour] performative documentary including a combination of dance theatre and narrative interviews conducted with an international group of scientists and philosophers in the fields of evolutionary biology and genomics. Becoming Bodies has a specially commissioned sound score by Jill Halstead and exhibition photography by Jackie King and Nick Du Plessis. Screenings in the UK and Porto will be posted during June 2012. See:http://becomingbodies.blogspot.co.uk/

New Book

Beatrice Allegranti’s new book Embodied Performances: Sexuality, Gender, Bodies presents an innovative blend of practice and research and is accompanied by 70 mins of film. It is published by Palgrave Macmillan. Embodied Performances film episodes have been recently screened at the Kinesthetic Empathy international conference in Manchester organised by The Watching Dance Project.
www.watchingdance.ning.com
Order a copy from Amazon books: Embodied Performances, Sexuality, Gender, Bodies