Embodying the Archive

Offering

Participants move archival material through the body using physical, vocal, and emotional expression. Poetry is spoken, breathed, gestured, and inhabited through embodied practice.

Audience

Artists, theatre makers, movement practitioners, and anyone willing to let language move through the body. No performance experience required.

Form

60 minutes. Live (in-person or Zoom) or asynchronous.

Blessing

• Guide — Introduction to somatic engagement with archival material
• Codes of Honor — Agreements for consent, boundaries, and embodied practice
• Practice Framework — Industrial Somatics method for translating text into body and voice
• Signature Tool — Embodiment score for continued practice
• Resource Record — Pathways for continued somatic and creative exploration