{"id":2058,"date":"2021-06-09T12:07:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T10:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/?page_id=2058"},"modified":"2022-01-02T16:28:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-02T15:28:37","slug":"site-dance-and-body","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/index.php\/site-dance-and-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Site, Dance and Body"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"2058\" class=\"elementor elementor-2058\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-42b5112 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"42b5112\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-25176cd\" data-id=\"25176cd\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-05b9ca9 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"05b9ca9\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-85062ae\" data-id=\"85062ae\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0dfe1af elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"0dfe1af\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Site, Dance and Body<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-e030d6d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"e030d6d\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-658faa4\" data-id=\"658faa4\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-97884a2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"97884a2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">MOVEMENT AND EMOTIONAL GEOGRAPHIES IN RAVAL, BARCELONA<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a5e663b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a5e663b\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-be7595d\" data-id=\"be7595d\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bb19621 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bb19621\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The Laboratory &#8220;Site, Dance and Body: Explorations of Movement and Emotional Geographies in Raval&#8221;, took place from\u00a0 9<sup>th<\/sup> to April 13<sup>th<\/sup>, 2018, and engaged 14 participants in morning and afternoon sessions of two and a half hours each. We engaged the participants in site-based movement experimentation in public urban spaces of Raval (Barcelona). We included introductory and warm up exercises in indoor facilities and outdoor exercises of site-dance exploration in public urban spaces. Working with mainly female intergenerational residents, we explored body-site relationships, associations and connections to urban spaces through movement research, and individual articulations to everyday lived places. We paid attention to the difference between what the mind expresses (memories, values and mental connections) and what the body feels (tempos, rhythms, flows and energies), reviewing both memories and mental responses and the systems and structures of the body in relation to the material nature of urban places. Through material engagement with particular places the participants were able to acknowledge their own body as the key mode of processing and responding to urban environments.\u00a0 The Laboratory emerged from a transdisciplinary research collaboration between the researcher Ana Moya (CHAIA, U. \u00c9vora, Portugal),\u00a0 invited researcher at Group of Anthropology and Artistic Practices (GRAPA), Anthropology Department, from the University of Barcelona (Spain), and Victoria Hunter, practitioner-researcher and Reader in site dance and choreography\u00a0 (U. Chichester, United Kingdom). Part of the Laboratory took place in the indoor municipal facilities of Drassanes Civic Centre and Folch i Torres Centre, located in Raval.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-537b24d elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"537b24d\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2a39163\" data-id=\"2a39163\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-892e9cf elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"892e9cf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sitedance_Lab_2-1024x576.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sitedance_Lab_2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sitedance_Lab_2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sitedance_Lab_2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sitedance_Lab_2-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sitedance_Lab_2-1140x641.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Sitedance_Lab_2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ddbdf14\" data-id=\"ddbdf14\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-05aaf0c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"05aaf0c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The participants explored affective processes of adaptation, integration, commitment, familiarity and belonging to space, using body movement as a common language. Throughout the Laboratory we worked with the emotions, the psychology of perception, and the intimate and collective imaginaries of daily, lived spatial experience. Participants explored how the articulation of their physical, sensorial and emotional experiences combined with their affective responses to site redefine their personal and collective construction of place and identity. The project fostered mental and sensorial connections to urban sites through movement exploration and produced a \u2018re-mapping\u2019 of sites through which the participants situated themselves, strengthened existing links and forged new-found relationships and identities with space and place in Raval.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8cf7e41 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8cf7e41\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-73b9bc9\" data-id=\"73b9bc9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ca9bf08 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"ca9bf08\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>We worked in seven locations in Raval, related to important public spaces and referential architectonic and historical locations. We paid attention to the geometric dimensions of space, scale and formal configuration, built elements composition, key architectural features and buildings, iconic and relevant references in space, together with small scale details (textures, surfaces, colors and materials).<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5368 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/maplocations_sitedanceandbody-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/maplocations_sitedanceandbody-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/maplocations_sitedanceandbody-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/maplocations_sitedanceandbody-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/maplocations_sitedanceandbody-1140x641.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/maplocations_sitedanceandbody.jpg 1431w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-f3f1c49 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"f3f1c49\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-559d035\" data-id=\"559d035\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-bec18a3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"bec18a3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>The work methodology of the Laboratory was structured in three movements:\u00a0 The <em>Affective Responses<\/em> to space, the creative <em>Performative expressions\u00a0<\/em>through movement practice, and the communication of a somatic landscape through <em>Body-world relationships\u00a0<\/em>and dialogue.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-387e5ab elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"387e5ab\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element 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class=\"elementor-grid-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-icon elementor-social-icon elementor-social-icon-youtube elementor-repeater-item-71cb5c5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCnTaxSmN4n5C1nOVgi374hQ\" target=\"_blank\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-screen-only\">Youtube<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<i class=\"fab fa-youtube\"><\/i>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-ff5e9a2 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"ff5e9a2\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-706d0bb\" data-id=\"706d0bb\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f14b72f elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"f14b72f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-64d7daf elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"64d7daf\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b24a110\" data-id=\"b24a110\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1d48cf9 elementor-tabs-view-horizontal elementor-widget elementor-widget-tabs\" data-id=\"1d48cf9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"tabs.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tabs\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tabs-wrapper\" role=\"tablist\" >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-3071\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"true\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-3071\" aria-expanded=\"false\">AFFECTIVE RESPONSES<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-3072\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-3072\" aria-expanded=\"false\">PERFORMATIVE EXPRESSIONS<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-title-3073\" class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-desktop-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-3073\" aria-expanded=\"false\">BODY-WORLD RELATIONSHIPS<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tabs-content-wrapper\" role=\"tablist\" aria-orientation=\"vertical\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"true\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-3071\" aria-expanded=\"false\">AFFECTIVE RESPONSES<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-3071\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"1\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-3071\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"false\"><p>We explored the participants\u2019 affective responses to space and place and mapped their sense of place-related identity emerging from their personal embodied experiences in Raval. We explored processes of urban space identity, as both an individual and collective construction arising from the participants\u2019 physical and emotional identification with the environment.\u00a0<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5455\" src=\"http:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Affective_responses-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Affective_responses-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Affective_responses-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Affective_responses-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Affective_responses-1140x641.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Affective_responses.jpg 1431w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>We worked with three types of memory: the memory of place; the personal memories of the participants; and the autonomous memory of their bodies. In this sense, the place talks as it contains stories, narratives from the past. It is the container of history. The mind experiences as the participants established a mental evocative connection to particular places.\u00a0 There were certain cultural experiences associated with an urban place common to all the group. Such experiences belonged to their collective memory. Arising from these perspectives was the conception that the body \u2018thinks\u2019 as a result of embodied memories that resonate in space.\u00a0<\/p><p>Participants created cartographies to identify the neighborhood they remember through the senses. We asked them to map Raval as a sensorial body, and relate those public spaces they recognize to sensorial memories of taste, touch, smell, vision, and hearing. We also explored Raval\u2019s urban spaces as a human body comprising different body parts. We drew this body as an urban landscape where public spaces are transformed into eyes, nose, mouth, heart, dorsal spine, lungs or watery system. We also worked with plastic arts, drawing and representing past body experiences of space and place. These memories and experiences were later emulated through body movements in exploratory indoor exercises.\u00a0<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5423 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Affective_responses_3-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Affective_responses_3-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Affective_responses_3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Affective_responses_3-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Affective_responses_3-1140x641.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Affective_responses_3.jpg 1431w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-3072\" aria-expanded=\"false\">PERFORMATIVE EXPRESSIONS<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-3072\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"2\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-3072\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-5459 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Performative_expressions-1024x589.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Performative_expressions-1024x589.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Performative_expressions-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Performative_expressions-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Performative_expressions-1140x656.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Performative_expressions.jpg 1431w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p><p>We observed the participants\u2019 experience of site and their creative interactions, performative expressions and constructions fostered through embodied movement practice in\u00a0urban places. Concerning affective engagements, we also explored their responses by reformulating the gestural presence of the body in space. The participants transformed their daily urban space into a meaningful space. They recognized, interpreted and recreated their emotional and personal world through their bodies&#8217; emotional projection and appropriation of urban spaces.\u00a0<\/p><p>Movement improvisation as opposed to \u2018taught\u2019 or didactic dance activity was selected as the main means of inquiry. Participants were offered a task or \u2018score\u2019 incorporating a simple set of instructions from which they engaged with particular sites through their own movement responses drawn from their own way or moving.<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5451\" src=\"http:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Performative_expressions_3-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Performative_expressions_3-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Performative_expressions_3-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Performative_expressions_3-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Performative_expressions_3-1140x641.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Performative_expressions_3.jpg 1431w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-tab-title elementor-tab-mobile-title\" aria-selected=\"false\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tab\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-controls=\"elementor-tab-content-3073\" aria-expanded=\"false\">BODY-WORLD RELATIONSHIPS<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"elementor-tab-content-3073\" class=\"elementor-tab-content elementor-clearfix\" data-tab=\"3\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"elementor-tab-title-3073\" tabindex=\"0\" hidden=\"hidden\"><p>We explored body-world relationships through materially based site-dance and movement practice. Through movement explorations in the urban sites of Raval the project explored how the moving body can engage with the materials, textures and spatial dimensions of site to effectively \u2018map\u2019 spaces through the body and instigate new modes of knowing spaces and places through the body. We divided the body-world exercises into five research topics: matter, rhythm, memory, connectivity and body.<\/p><p>With <strong>Matter<\/strong> we experienced site materials to resonate in and through the body. Engagement with site materials also enabled us to investigate the felt sensation and embodied significance of the transition between materials, the absence of matter, corporal adaptations to different materials or the immateriality of soundscapes .<\/p><p>Every urban location contains a specific <strong>Rhythm<\/strong>, consequently we explored moving according to the rhythm of space and considered how rhythms in space are related to the mechanics of the body. We experimented with the observation of stillness, or weaving with the body the energy flows of space.<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5372 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/body-world_relationships_sitedanceandbody-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/body-world_relationships_sitedanceandbody-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/body-world_relationships_sitedanceandbody-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/body-world_relationships_sitedanceandbody-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/body-world_relationships_sitedanceandbody-1140x641.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/somaticlandscape.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/body-world_relationships_sitedanceandbody.jpg 1431w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p><p>We experimented with body <strong>Memory<\/strong>, and how it guides the experience, evocation and visualization of a physical space in the present or in the past. We visualized and performed personal recollections of past experiences. We also worked with collective memory to explore historical sites. We experimented with imaginary trips, and ritualized experiences.<\/p><p><strong>Connectivity<\/strong> was related to the exercise of capturing space, bringing space inside our body, acknowledging a sense of spatialised energy before releasing the force back into the environment. Subsequent exercises explored observing, selecting, copying, and reacting to the surroundings through processes of action-reaction, question-response, selection-imitation, or observation and body re-interpretation. We also experimented with the dialogue with the surrounding environment as a whole, and the response into choreographic narratives.<\/p><p>Finally we explored those parallels between the \u2018body parts\u2019 of Raval (heart, dorsal spine, lungs, eyes, and skin) and the <strong>Body<\/strong> of the participants. We experimented with synergies between the human heart and the heart beat or arterial rhythm of Sant Pau Cloister. 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Portugal), Jordi (43, Catalonia, Spain), Brigitte (50, Catalonia, Spain), Sheri (50, England), Francesca (63, Madrid, Spain), Assumpta (66, Catalonia, Spain), Amparo (75, Castile La Mancha, Spain), Ana Mar\u00eda (76, Castile and Le\u00f3n, Spain), Azucena (79, Valencia, Spain), Emilia (81, Cantabria, Spain), Em\u00e9rita (82, Galicia, Spain). <strong>Camera, Audiovisual work: <\/strong>\u00a0Florence Girardeau and Ana Moya (audiovisuals, camera, video editing). <strong>Special thans to:<\/strong> Stefano d&#8217;Argenio (INCA Catalunya), Felipe Ibarra (Ateneu del Raval), Mireia Aranda (Tot Raval), Ana Luisa Sousa (Op\u00e1, Associaci\u00f3 Lus\u00f3fona), Sheri Masala (Centro Bollywood Masala, BCN).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a234a90 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default 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We engaged the participants in site-based movement experimentation in public urban spaces of Raval (Barcelona). We included introductory and warm up exercises in indoor facilities and outdoor exercises of site-dance exploration in public urban spaces. Working with mainly female intergenerational residents, we explored body-site relationships, associations and connections to urban spaces through movement research, and individual articulations to everyday lived places. We paid attention to the difference between what the mind expresses (memories, values and mental connections) and what the body feels (tempos, rhythms, flows and energies), reviewing both memories and mental responses and the systems and structures of the body in relation to the material nature of urban places. Through material engagement with particular places the participants were able to acknowledge their own body as the key mode of processing and responding to urban environments.\u00a0 The Laboratory emerged from a transdisciplinary research collaboration between the researcher Ana Moya (CHAIA, U. \u00c9vora, Portugal),\u00a0 invited researcher at Group of Anthropology and Artistic Practices (GRAPA), Anthropology Department, from the University of Barcelona (Spain), and Victoria Hunter, practitioner-researcher and Reader in site dance and choreography\u00a0 (U. Chichester, United Kingdom). Part of the Laboratory took place in the indoor municipal facilities of Drassanes Civic Centre and Folch i Torres Centre, located in Raval.\u00a0 The participants explored affective processes of adaptation, integration, commitment, familiarity and belonging to space, using body movement as a common language. Throughout the Laboratory we worked with the emotions, the psychology of perception, and the intimate and collective imaginaries of daily, lived spatial experience. Participants explored how the articulation of their physical, sensorial and emotional experiences combined with their affective responses to site redefine their personal and collective construction of place and identity. The project fostered mental and sensorial connections to urban sites through movement exploration and produced a \u2018re-mapping\u2019 of sites through which the participants situated themselves, strengthened existing links and forged new-found relationships and identities with space and place in Raval. We worked in seven locations in Raval, related to important public spaces and referential architectonic and historical locations. We paid attention to the geometric dimensions of space, scale and formal configuration, built elements composition, key architectural features and buildings, iconic and relevant references in space, together with small scale details (textures, surfaces, colors and materials). \u00a0 The work methodology of the Laboratory was structured in three movements:\u00a0 The Affective Responses to space, the creative Performative expressions\u00a0through movement practice, and the communication of a somatic landscape through Body-world relationships\u00a0and dialogue. Facebook Youtube AFFECTIVE RESPONSES PERFORMATIVE EXPRESSIONS BODY-WORLD RELATIONSHIPS AFFECTIVE RESPONSES We explored the participants\u2019 affective responses to space and place and mapped their sense of place-related identity emerging from their personal embodied experiences in Raval. We explored processes of urban space identity, as both an individual and collective construction arising from the participants\u2019 physical and emotional identification with the environment.\u00a0 We worked with three types of memory: the memory of place; the personal memories of the participants; and the autonomous memory of their bodies. In this sense, the place talks as it contains stories, narratives from the past. It is the container of history. The mind experiences as the participants established a mental evocative connection to particular places.\u00a0 There were certain cultural experiences associated with an urban place common to all the group. Such experiences belonged to their collective memory. Arising from these perspectives was the conception that the body \u2018thinks\u2019 as a result of embodied memories that resonate in space.\u00a0 Participants created cartographies to identify the neighborhood they remember through the senses. We asked them to map Raval as a sensorial body, and relate those public spaces they recognize to sensorial memories of taste, touch, smell, vision, and hearing. We also explored Raval\u2019s urban spaces as a human body comprising different body parts. We drew this body as an urban landscape where public spaces are transformed into eyes, nose, mouth, heart, dorsal spine, lungs or watery system. We also worked with plastic arts, drawing and representing past body experiences of space and place. These memories and experiences were later emulated through body movements in exploratory indoor exercises.\u00a0 PERFORMATIVE EXPRESSIONS We observed the participants\u2019 experience of site and their creative interactions, performative expressions and constructions fostered through embodied movement practice in\u00a0urban places. Concerning affective engagements, we also explored their responses by reformulating the gestural presence of the body in space. The participants transformed their daily urban space into a meaningful space. They recognized, interpreted and recreated their emotional and personal world through their bodies&#8217; emotional projection and appropriation of urban spaces.\u00a0 Movement improvisation as opposed to \u2018taught\u2019 or didactic dance activity was selected as the main means of inquiry. Participants were offered a task or \u2018score\u2019 incorporating a simple set of instructions from which they engaged with particular sites through their own movement responses drawn from their own way or moving. BODY-WORLD RELATIONSHIPS We explored body-world relationships through materially based site-dance and movement practice. Through movement explorations in the urban sites of Raval the project explored how the moving body can engage with the materials, textures and spatial dimensions of site to effectively \u2018map\u2019 spaces through the body and instigate new modes of knowing spaces and places through the body. We divided the body-world exercises into five research topics: matter, rhythm, memory, connectivity and body. With Matter we experienced site materials to resonate in and through the body. Engagement with site materials also enabled us to investigate the felt sensation and embodied significance of the transition between materials, the absence of matter, corporal adaptations to different materials or the immateriality of soundscapes . Every urban location contains a specific Rhythm, consequently we explored moving according to the rhythm of space and considered how rhythms in space are related to the mechanics of the body. We experimented with the observation of stillness, or weaving with the body the energy flows of space. We experimented with body Memory, and how it guides the experience, evocation and visualization of a physical space in the present or in the past. We visualized and performed personal recollections of past experiences. We also worked with collective memory to explore historical sites. We experimented with imaginary trips, and ritualized experiences. Connectivity was related to the exercise of capturing space, bringing space inside our body, acknowledging a sense of spatialised energy before releasing the force back into the environment. Subsequent exercises explored observing, selecting, copying, and reacting to the surroundings through processes of action-reaction, question-response, selection-imitation, or observation and body re-interpretation. We also experimented with the dialogue with the surrounding environment as a whole, and the response into choreographic narratives. Finally we explored those parallels between the \u2018body parts\u2019 of Raval (heart, dorsal spine, lungs, eyes, and skin) and the Body of the participants. We experimented with synergies between the human heart and the heart beat or arterial rhythm of Sant Pau Cloister. We explored the \u2018dorsal spine\u2019 of Rambla del Raval with the vertebras of the participants&#8217; spinal column; the \u2018eyes\u2019 of\u00a0 Hotel Barcel\u00f3 skyscraper with exercises of body rooting, head-torso rotation and eye observation; experiencing the \u2018lungs\u2019 of Santa Creu Old Hospital Cloister with exercises of chest opening and breathing; or experiencing the \u2018skin\u2019 of the stone walls of the Hospital with the skin of the participants. Previous Next site dance performances artistic production, read more participants \u00a0 \u00a0 Sof\u00eda (23, Galicia, Spain), Helena (24, Vasc Country, Spain), Maria (25, Catalonia, Spain), Ana Luisa (34, Portugal), Jordi (43, Catalonia, Spain), Brigitte (50, Catalonia, Spain), Sheri (50, England), Francesca (63, Madrid, Spain), Assumpta (66, Catalonia, Spain), Amparo (75, Castile La Mancha, Spain), Ana Mar\u00eda (76, Castile and Le\u00f3n, Spain), Azucena (79, Valencia, Spain), Emilia (81, Cantabria, Spain), Em\u00e9rita (82, Galicia, Spain). Camera, Audiovisual work: \u00a0Florence Girardeau and Ana Moya (audiovisuals, camera, video editing). Special thans to: Stefano d&#8217;Argenio (INCA Catalunya), Felipe Ibarra (Ateneu del Raval), Mireia Aranda (Tot Raval), Ana Luisa Sousa (Op\u00e1, Associaci\u00f3 Lus\u00f3fona), Sheri Masala (Centro Bollywood Masala, BCN). academic partnerships International research cooperation was established with the Research Group on Anthropology and Artistic Practices (GRAPA, U Barcelona, ES) and the Site Dance and Choreography Group (U Chichester, UK). This research counted with the support and supervision\u00a0 Roger Sansi, Professor at the Anthropology Department, University of Barcelona (ES).\u00a0 special thanks to INCA Catalunya;\u00a0 Ateneu del Raval; Tot Raval; Op\u00e1, Associaci\u00f3 Lus\u00f3fona; Apec, Associa\u00e7\u00e3o de Pesquisadores e Estudantes Brasileiros na Catalunha; Centro Bollywood Masala, BCN; La Poderosa, espai per a la dansa i els seus contaminants. 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We engaged the participants in site-based movement experimentation in public urban spaces of Raval (Barcelona). We included introductory and warm up exercises in indoor facilities and outdoor exercises of site-dance exploration in public urban spaces. Working with mainly female intergenerational residents, we explored body-site relationships, associations and connections to urban spaces through movement research, and individual articulations to everyday lived places. We paid attention to the difference between what the mind expresses (memories, values and mental connections) and what the body feels (tempos, rhythms, flows and energies), reviewing both memories and mental responses and the systems and structures of the body in relation to the material nature of urban places. Through material engagement with particular places the participants were able to acknowledge their own body as the key mode of processing and responding to urban environments.\u00a0 The Laboratory emerged from a transdisciplinary research collaboration between the researcher Ana Moya (CHAIA, U. \u00c9vora, Portugal),\u00a0 invited researcher at Group of Anthropology and Artistic Practices (GRAPA), Anthropology Department, from the University of Barcelona (Spain), and Victoria Hunter, practitioner-researcher and Reader in site dance and choreography\u00a0 (U. Chichester, United Kingdom). Part of the Laboratory took place in the indoor municipal facilities of Drassanes Civic Centre and Folch i Torres Centre, located in Raval.\u00a0 The participants explored affective processes of adaptation, integration, commitment, familiarity and belonging to space, using body movement as a common language. Throughout the Laboratory we worked with the emotions, the psychology of perception, and the intimate and collective imaginaries of daily, lived spatial experience. Participants explored how the articulation of their physical, sensorial and emotional experiences combined with their affective responses to site redefine their personal and collective construction of place and identity. The project fostered mental and sensorial connections to urban sites through movement exploration and produced a \u2018re-mapping\u2019 of sites through which the participants situated themselves, strengthened existing links and forged new-found relationships and identities with space and place in Raval. We worked in seven locations in Raval, related to important public spaces and referential architectonic and historical locations. We paid attention to the geometric dimensions of space, scale and formal configuration, built elements composition, key architectural features and buildings, iconic and relevant references in space, together with small scale details (textures, surfaces, colors and materials). \u00a0 The work methodology of the Laboratory was structured in three movements:\u00a0 The Affective Responses to space, the creative Performative expressions\u00a0through movement practice, and the communication of a somatic landscape through Body-world relationships\u00a0and dialogue. Facebook Youtube AFFECTIVE RESPONSES PERFORMATIVE EXPRESSIONS BODY-WORLD RELATIONSHIPS AFFECTIVE RESPONSES We explored the participants\u2019 affective responses to space and place and mapped their sense of place-related identity emerging from their personal embodied experiences in Raval. We explored processes of urban space identity, as both an individual and collective construction arising from the participants\u2019 physical and emotional identification with the environment.\u00a0 We worked with three types of memory: the memory of place; the personal memories of the participants; and the autonomous memory of their bodies. In this sense, the place talks as it contains stories, narratives from the past. It is the container of history. The mind experiences as the participants established a mental evocative connection to particular places.\u00a0 There were certain cultural experiences associated with an urban place common to all the group. Such experiences belonged to their collective memory. Arising from these perspectives was the conception that the body \u2018thinks\u2019 as a result of embodied memories that resonate in space.\u00a0 Participants created cartographies to identify the neighborhood they remember through the senses. We asked them to map Raval as a sensorial body, and relate those public spaces they recognize to sensorial memories of taste, touch, smell, vision, and hearing. We also explored Raval\u2019s urban spaces as a human body comprising different body parts. We drew this body as an urban landscape where public spaces are transformed into eyes, nose, mouth, heart, dorsal spine, lungs or watery system. We also worked with plastic arts, drawing and representing past body experiences of space and place. These memories and experiences were later emulated through body movements in exploratory indoor exercises.\u00a0 PERFORMATIVE EXPRESSIONS We observed the participants\u2019 experience of site and their creative interactions, performative expressions and constructions fostered through embodied movement practice in\u00a0urban places. Concerning affective engagements, we also explored their responses by reformulating the gestural presence of the body in space. The participants transformed their daily urban space into a meaningful space. They recognized, interpreted and recreated their emotional and personal world through their bodies&#8217; emotional projection and appropriation of urban spaces.\u00a0 Movement improvisation as opposed to \u2018taught\u2019 or didactic dance activity was selected as the main means of inquiry. Participants were offered a task or \u2018score\u2019 incorporating a simple set of instructions from which they engaged with particular sites through their own movement responses drawn from their own way or moving. BODY-WORLD RELATIONSHIPS We explored body-world relationships through materially based site-dance and movement practice. Through movement explorations in the urban sites of Raval the project explored how the moving body can engage with the materials, textures and spatial dimensions of site to effectively \u2018map\u2019 spaces through the body and instigate new modes of knowing spaces and places through the body. We divided the body-world exercises into five research topics: matter, rhythm, memory, connectivity and body. With Matter we experienced site materials to resonate in and through the body. Engagement with site materials also enabled us to investigate the felt sensation and embodied significance of the transition between materials, the absence of matter, corporal adaptations to different materials or the immateriality of soundscapes . Every urban location contains a specific Rhythm, consequently we explored moving according to the rhythm of space and considered how rhythms in space are related to the mechanics of the body. We experimented with the observation of stillness, or weaving with the body the energy flows of space. We experimented with body Memory, and how it guides the experience, evocation and visualization of a physical space in the present or in the past. We visualized and performed personal recollections of past experiences. We also worked with collective memory to explore historical sites. We experimented with imaginary trips, and ritualized experiences. Connectivity was related to the exercise of capturing space, bringing space inside our body, acknowledging a sense of spatialised energy before releasing the force back into the environment. Subsequent exercises explored observing, selecting, copying, and reacting to the surroundings through processes of action-reaction, question-response, selection-imitation, or observation and body re-interpretation. We also experimented with the dialogue with the surrounding environment as a whole, and the response into choreographic narratives. Finally we explored those parallels between the \u2018body parts\u2019 of Raval (heart, dorsal spine, lungs, eyes, and skin) and the Body of the participants. We experimented with synergies between the human heart and the heart beat or arterial rhythm of Sant Pau Cloister. We explored the \u2018dorsal spine\u2019 of Rambla del Raval with the vertebras of the participants&#8217; spinal column; the \u2018eyes\u2019 of\u00a0 Hotel Barcel\u00f3 skyscraper with exercises of body rooting, head-torso rotation and eye observation; experiencing the \u2018lungs\u2019 of Santa Creu Old Hospital Cloister with exercises of chest opening and breathing; or experiencing the \u2018skin\u2019 of the stone walls of the Hospital with the skin of the participants. Previous Next site dance performances artistic production, read more participants \u00a0 \u00a0 Sof\u00eda (23, Galicia, Spain), Helena (24, Vasc Country, Spain), Maria (25, Catalonia, Spain), Ana Luisa (34, Portugal), Jordi (43, Catalonia, Spain), Brigitte (50, Catalonia, Spain), Sheri (50, England), Francesca (63, Madrid, Spain), Assumpta (66, Catalonia, Spain), Amparo (75, Castile La Mancha, Spain), Ana Mar\u00eda (76, Castile and Le\u00f3n, Spain), Azucena (79, Valencia, Spain), Emilia (81, Cantabria, Spain), Em\u00e9rita (82, Galicia, Spain). Camera, Audiovisual work: \u00a0Florence Girardeau and Ana Moya (audiovisuals, camera, video editing). Special thans to: Stefano d&#8217;Argenio (INCA Catalunya), Felipe Ibarra (Ateneu del Raval), Mireia Aranda (Tot Raval), Ana Luisa Sousa (Op\u00e1, Associaci\u00f3 Lus\u00f3fona), Sheri Masala (Centro Bollywood Masala, BCN). academic partnerships International research cooperation was established with the Research Group on Anthropology and Artistic Practices (GRAPA, U Barcelona, ES) and the Site Dance and Choreography Group (U Chichester, UK). This research counted with the support and supervision\u00a0 Roger Sansi, Professor at the Anthropology Department, University of Barcelona (ES).\u00a0 special thanks to INCA Catalunya;\u00a0 Ateneu del Raval; Tot Raval; Op\u00e1, Associaci\u00f3 Lus\u00f3fona; Apec, Associa\u00e7\u00e3o de Pesquisadores e Estudantes Brasileiros na Catalunha; Centro Bollywood Masala, BCN; La Poderosa, espai per a la dansa i els seus contaminants. 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We engaged the participants in site-based movement experimentation in public urban spaces of Raval (Barcelona). We included introductory and warm up exercises in indoor facilities and outdoor exercises of site-dance exploration in public urban spaces. Working with mainly female intergenerational residents, we explored body-site relationships, associations and connections to urban spaces through movement research, and individual articulations to everyday lived places. We paid attention to the difference between what the mind expresses (memories, values and mental connections) and what the body feels (tempos, rhythms, flows and energies), reviewing both memories and mental responses and the systems and structures of the body in relation to the material nature of urban places. Through material engagement with particular places the participants were able to acknowledge their own body as the key mode of processing and responding to urban environments.\u00a0 The Laboratory emerged from a transdisciplinary research collaboration between the researcher Ana Moya (CHAIA, U. \u00c9vora, Portugal),\u00a0 invited researcher at Group of Anthropology and Artistic Practices (GRAPA), Anthropology Department, from the University of Barcelona (Spain), and Victoria Hunter, practitioner-researcher and Reader in site dance and choreography\u00a0 (U. Chichester, United Kingdom). Part of the Laboratory took place in the indoor municipal facilities of Drassanes Civic Centre and Folch i Torres Centre, located in Raval.\u00a0 The participants explored affective processes of adaptation, integration, commitment, familiarity and belonging to space, using body movement as a common language. Throughout the Laboratory we worked with the emotions, the psychology of perception, and the intimate and collective imaginaries of daily, lived spatial experience. Participants explored how the articulation of their physical, sensorial and emotional experiences combined with their affective responses to site redefine their personal and collective construction of place and identity. The project fostered mental and sensorial connections to urban sites through movement exploration and produced a \u2018re-mapping\u2019 of sites through which the participants situated themselves, strengthened existing links and forged new-found relationships and identities with space and place in Raval. We worked in seven locations in Raval, related to important public spaces and referential architectonic and historical locations. We paid attention to the geometric dimensions of space, scale and formal configuration, built elements composition, key architectural features and buildings, iconic and relevant references in space, together with small scale details (textures, surfaces, colors and materials). \u00a0 The work methodology of the Laboratory was structured in three movements:\u00a0 The Affective Responses to space, the creative Performative expressions\u00a0through movement practice, and the communication of a somatic landscape through Body-world relationships\u00a0and dialogue. Facebook Youtube AFFECTIVE RESPONSES PERFORMATIVE EXPRESSIONS BODY-WORLD RELATIONSHIPS AFFECTIVE RESPONSES We explored the participants\u2019 affective responses to space and place and mapped their sense of place-related identity emerging from their personal embodied experiences in Raval. We explored processes of urban space identity, as both an individual and collective construction arising from the participants\u2019 physical and emotional identification with the environment.\u00a0 We worked with three types of memory: the memory of place; the personal memories of the participants; and the autonomous memory of their bodies. In this sense, the place talks as it contains stories, narratives from the past. It is the container of history. The mind experiences as the participants established a mental evocative connection to particular places.\u00a0 There were certain cultural experiences associated with an urban place common to all the group. Such experiences belonged to their collective memory. Arising from these perspectives was the conception that the body \u2018thinks\u2019 as a result of embodied memories that resonate in space.\u00a0 Participants created cartographies to identify the neighborhood they remember through the senses. We asked them to map Raval as a sensorial body, and relate those public spaces they recognize to sensorial memories of taste, touch, smell, vision, and hearing. We also explored Raval\u2019s urban spaces as a human body comprising different body parts. We drew this body as an urban landscape where public spaces are transformed into eyes, nose, mouth, heart, dorsal spine, lungs or watery system. We also worked with plastic arts, drawing and representing past body experiences of space and place. These memories and experiences were later emulated through body movements in exploratory indoor exercises.\u00a0 PERFORMATIVE EXPRESSIONS We observed the participants\u2019 experience of site and their creative interactions, performative expressions and constructions fostered through embodied movement practice in\u00a0urban places. Concerning affective engagements, we also explored their responses by reformulating the gestural presence of the body in space. The participants transformed their daily urban space into a meaningful space. They recognized, interpreted and recreated their emotional and personal world through their bodies&#8217; emotional projection and appropriation of urban spaces.\u00a0 Movement improvisation as opposed to \u2018taught\u2019 or didactic dance activity was selected as the main means of inquiry. Participants were offered a task or \u2018score\u2019 incorporating a simple set of instructions from which they engaged with particular sites through their own movement responses drawn from their own way or moving. BODY-WORLD RELATIONSHIPS We explored body-world relationships through materially based site-dance and movement practice. Through movement explorations in the urban sites of Raval the project explored how the moving body can engage with the materials, textures and spatial dimensions of site to effectively \u2018map\u2019 spaces through the body and instigate new modes of knowing spaces and places through the body. We divided the body-world exercises into five research topics: matter, rhythm, memory, connectivity and body. With Matter we experienced site materials to resonate in and through the body. Engagement with site materials also enabled us to investigate the felt sensation and embodied significance of the transition between materials, the absence of matter, corporal adaptations to different materials or the immateriality of soundscapes . Every urban location contains a specific Rhythm, consequently we explored moving according to the rhythm of space and considered how rhythms in space are related to the mechanics of the body. We experimented with the observation of stillness, or weaving with the body the energy flows of space. We experimented with body Memory, and how it guides the experience, evocation and visualization of a physical space in the present or in the past. We visualized and performed personal recollections of past experiences. We also worked with collective memory to explore historical sites. We experimented with imaginary trips, and ritualized experiences. Connectivity was related to the exercise of capturing space, bringing space inside our body, acknowledging a sense of spatialised energy before releasing the force back into the environment. Subsequent exercises explored observing, selecting, copying, and reacting to the surroundings through processes of action-reaction, question-response, selection-imitation, or observation and body re-interpretation. We also experimented with the dialogue with the surrounding environment as a whole, and the response into choreographic narratives. Finally we explored those parallels between the \u2018body parts\u2019 of Raval (heart, dorsal spine, lungs, eyes, and skin) and the Body of the participants. We experimented with synergies between the human heart and the heart beat or arterial rhythm of Sant Pau Cloister. We explored the \u2018dorsal spine\u2019 of Rambla del Raval with the vertebras of the participants&#8217; spinal column; the \u2018eyes\u2019 of\u00a0 Hotel Barcel\u00f3 skyscraper with exercises of body rooting, head-torso rotation and eye observation; experiencing the \u2018lungs\u2019 of Santa Creu Old Hospital Cloister with exercises of chest opening and breathing; or experiencing the \u2018skin\u2019 of the stone walls of the Hospital with the skin of the participants. Previous Next site dance performances artistic production, read more participants \u00a0 \u00a0 Sof\u00eda (23, Galicia, Spain), Helena (24, Vasc Country, Spain), Maria (25, Catalonia, Spain), Ana Luisa (34, Portugal), Jordi (43, Catalonia, Spain), Brigitte (50, Catalonia, Spain), Sheri (50, England), Francesca (63, Madrid, Spain), Assumpta (66, Catalonia, Spain), Amparo (75, Castile La Mancha, Spain), Ana Mar\u00eda (76, Castile and Le\u00f3n, Spain), Azucena (79, Valencia, Spain), Emilia (81, Cantabria, Spain), Em\u00e9rita (82, Galicia, Spain). Camera, Audiovisual work: \u00a0Florence Girardeau and Ana Moya (audiovisuals, camera, video editing). Special thans to: Stefano d&#8217;Argenio (INCA Catalunya), Felipe Ibarra (Ateneu del Raval), Mireia Aranda (Tot Raval), Ana Luisa Sousa (Op\u00e1, Associaci\u00f3 Lus\u00f3fona), Sheri Masala (Centro Bollywood Masala, BCN). academic partnerships International research cooperation was established with the Research Group on Anthropology and Artistic Practices (GRAPA, U Barcelona, ES) and the Site Dance and Choreography Group (U Chichester, UK). This research counted with the support and supervision\u00a0 Roger Sansi, Professor at the Anthropology Department, University of Barcelona (ES).\u00a0 special thanks to INCA Catalunya;\u00a0 Ateneu del Raval; Tot Raval; Op\u00e1, Associaci\u00f3 Lus\u00f3fona; Apec, Associa\u00e7\u00e3o de Pesquisadores e Estudantes Brasileiros na Catalunha; Centro Bollywood Masala, BCN; La Poderosa, espai per a la dansa i els seus contaminants. 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