Moving the Nomadic Body
How do I structure the map of my ephemeral physical space-time?
Movement and language create space. They create time.
The entanglement of imagination and language in our bodies creates kinetic representations.
‘Moving the nomadic body’ applies movement and choreography as tools of critical thinking, awareness, and political action.
It it a workshop of kinetic composition in which the body moves in the real and the imaginary, while choosing to influence and get influenced.
The body is characterized as a complex entity. The body creates spaces and this is expressed by its performativity in space.
Following the feminist geographer Massey, the workshop activates the three notions of space: discursive - imaginary - corporeal and aims to build new maps.
The workshop offers a different way of interacting with the written words and the reasoning space. How our body, by choosing to reject the hierarchy of the mind in understanding language, can perceive and move language differently?
The more sensitive the body is in its ‘ relational representations’, the more power has to act and inform space as a practice of possibilities, shaped by continuous representations and effects of self and other material relations.
The term ‘nomadic body’ has been influenced by the theory of nomadic subjectivity (Deleuze, Guattari, 1985) by stating free thought that travels away from domination and categorization. A nomadic body that perceives the ‘worn standard notions of hegemony’ and moves away from passivity and stagnation.
| Dance Practitioner |
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Sonia Ntova is a dance practitioner, performance maker, and researcher based in Europe. She has worked around Europe for the past 10 years in solo works, collaborations with different artists while teaching dance movement in various contexts.
She completed her Master's degree with excellence, in the field of Dance and Participation (Danish National School of Performing Arts in Copenhagen, DK). She obtains a State Diploma in classical and contemporary dance from the Greek Ministry of Culture (GR). Along with a State Diploma in Marketing and Advertising (Alexander Technological Institute of Thessaloniki, GR).
She divides her time between teaching, research, and choreography.
Her movement practice is based on the continuous inquiry of perceptual engagements and the sensorial world. She deals with improvisational structures while permitting mutation and flexibility to enter the process.Her interest lies in making quality artistic processes available to people.
She uses choreography as an experimental art-based political praxis, to activate the body as an embedded vital force within the pedagogical, political, social, and in extension, in the world, while challenges power relations. She is interested in challenging the relationship between the human and the other-than-human world.
Although some of her works explore other media or formats, such as video, books, photos, and writing, her interest is always in the creation of choreographic spaces.
Her current focus is on the question of "What re-embodiment do we need in a context of global ethical and ecological crisis?"