PublicationsAll publications can be accessed and downloaded from Raffaele Rufo’s ResearchGate repository.
How to Dance with the Forest: Sensing, Responding and Participating in a More-than-Human World
Combining practice-based artistic research with ecosomatic inquiry, this chapter interweaves movement, phenomenological reflection and poetic language as a methodology for embodied participation. A pathway is offered through which the environmental turn can become a lived, perceptual and shareable experience rather than a theoretical concept.
Decolonizing Perception: Mourning the Loss of Ecological Connections through Ecosomatic Dance Practice
Blending narrative, field practice, and guided inquiry, this in-depth interview explores ecosomatic dance and artistic research as pathways to decolonize perception through sensory immersion and embodied participation. It invites practitioners to cultivate more-than-human connections and expand ecological awareness through practices of grieving and mourning for ecological losses.
Ecosomatic Mutants: Calling for a New Paradigm of Ecological Transformation in a More-than-Human World
Ecosomatic practices open pathways to embodied knowledge, interspecies alliances, and ecological care. Moving beyond anthropocentrism, this keynote calls for a new paradigm where grief, perception, and participation regenerate human–more-than-human relations toward liveable futures.
Somatic Arts and Liveable Futures: Embodying Ecological Connections
Reactivating eco-consciousness through embodied interconnectedness, this research article situates ecosomatic practices as political acts of care and resistance. By awakening bodily memory and grieving ecological loss, it opens pathways for regeneration.