I would like to invite you to close your eyes for a moment. I want you to recall the feeling of a hand placed on your skin. Then I want you to imagine your body—your hand, arm, face—being moved by that hand. I want you to consider that only one in every thousand nerve cells is directed to what is touching you from the outside. The rest of the neurons try to capture what you are feeling inside. In my work as artist-scholar I seek to interrogate the ways in which our culture tends to prioritise our knowledge/knowing of external reality and trivialises what we might be feeling internally. Dance and somatic movement can activate a space of perceptiveness and discovery between the inside and the outside. This is a perceptual space where we can reconnect with and reclaim the porosity and the reciprocity between the sensing self and the sensuous world and between sentience and the sensible as indivisible manifestations of the earthly and cosmic flux of life.
