In late November, I was working in Sheffield with choreographer Katrina Brown, further developing our collaborative research project Dorsal Practices. Though we have been working together since early 2020, this was really our first in-person exploration together (with the exception of us presenting a workshop and performance reading at the Sentient Performativities symposium in June 2022). Our shared exploration together in Sheffield including a live back-to-back process of ‘dorsal conversation’, a series of movement practices exploring walking backwards, leaning, and lying down, alongside working with filmmaker Leon Lockley to make a recording of a performance reading / reading practice based on previous transcript material from earlier conversations. An extract of the recording of the reading can be encountered here.
