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Moving With The Spaces Between: Dance as a Symbiotic Knowing of Self, Other and Environment

Abstract

MIKO, a space between was a site-specific dance performance that occurred at Scripps Institute of Oceanography on January 23, 24 and 25, 2019. This performance investigated dance as an embodied knowing of the symbiotic relationships between self, other and the environment. MIKO, a space between is also part of the interdisciplinary grant Waves Internal, which strives to deepen empathetic connections with shorelines. Through various and consistent explorations dancing outside at Scripps Institute of Oceanography, this dance project investigated how the act of dancing with certain locations can shift, transform and uplift oneself, others and the specific places that we dance within. This research re-examines what dance can be and the potential roles dance can play in the world today. Through the creation of regenerative dance ecologies, this research demonstrates small yet powerful ways that dance enriches, transforms and nurtures the human-planetary bond.

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