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Thematic focus on Dance and Ecology

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2025): Revista Estud(i)os de Dança 5

Art, Walking, and Embodied Ecology: Three Voices in Resonance

DOI
https://doi.org/10.53072/RED202501/00203

Abstract

This interview features three artists whose practices use their physical presence and actions in natural settings as both an instigation and a departure point, offering reflections on ways of seeing and valuing what often goes unnoticed. It explores the creative power of not fully understanding — of being present in the moment, guided by improvisation, rhythm, and elements that reveal time. The conversation turns to nature: not as an untouched wilderness, but as a concept shaped by culture and industry. “Wild” is not the absence of humans, but a relationship with them. To reintroduce nature into the city, to collaborate with it, is to challenge these boundaries. Through collecting traces, following gestures, and embracing deep time, a new understanding of human and more-than-human relations emerges — one that is intelligent, balanced, and profoundly relational. There is beauty in disappearance, in unrepresentable experiences, in fleeting encounters that resist capture.

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