Rehearsing catastrophe: cultivating affective responses to climate change through eco-somatic performance with babies and mothers

Vanessa Chapple; Daniel X. Harris; David Rousell

doi:10.1080/13569783.2024.2341904

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Rehearsing catastrophe: cultivating affective responses to climate change through eco-somatic performance with babies and mothers

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Rehearsing catastrophe: cultivating affective responses to climate change through eco-somatic performance with babies and mothers

Vanessa Chapple, Daniel X. Harris and David Rousell

Research in drama education, Vol.29(2), pp.290-304

02/04/2024

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13569783.2024.2341904

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Abstract

climate catastrophe

Creative ecologies

eco-somatics

ecological aesthetics

rehearsal

Theatre for the Early Years (TEY)

This article considers the related concepts of 'rehearsal' [Harney, Stefano, and Fred Moten. 2013. The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study. Brooklyn: Minor Compositions] and 'catastrophe' [Stengers, Isabelle. 2015. In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism. Translated by Andrew Goffey. London: Open Humanities Press] as activism, focussing upon eco-somatic drama processes engaged through In Your Arms (IYA). This participatory arts project for babies and their primary caregivers was co-created in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia, by a four-person artist ensemble, ten pre-crawling babies, and their mothers. Multi-modalities were used, including improvisatory movement scores, natural props, sound-making and listening practices. The article suggests new ways to consider drama activity at a micro-sensorial scale, offering practices that cultivate environmental attunement and care from the very first months of life.

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Title: Rehearsing catastrophe: cultivating affective responses to climate change through eco-somatic performance with babies and mothers
Creators: Vanessa Chapple - RMIT University
Daniel X. Harris - RMIT University
David Rousell - RMIT University
Publication Details: Research in drama education, Vol.29(2), pp.290-304
Publisher: Routledge
Identifiers: 991013206710702368
Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
Academic Unit: Faculty of Education
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

Rehearsing catastrophe: cultivating affective responses to climate change through eco-somatic performance with babies and mothers

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