Journeying towards multitudinous bodies: working with body weather practices through the creation of Into the Mountain

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to Joyce Gilbert for her Gaelic translation.

Notes

1 The writer Nan Shepherd uses the Scots word ‘fey’ to explain how ‘bodily lightness… in the rarefied air, combines with the liberation of space to give mountain feyness to those who are susceptible to such a malady’. (2011, p8.)

2 Stravaiging is a Scots term that means to wander about. I was introduced to this word by Jean Langhorne, an ecologist with great hill knowledge, who became one of the walking facilitators for this performance.

3 See Karen Barad’s concept of intra-action and entanglements in Juleskjaer, M. and Schwennesen, N.(2012)

4 The history of Body Weather, its founder and practitioners is too wide for the scope of this essai. There is a plethora of writings that offer insights and critiques of the work. See Fuller (2014), Taylor (2010), Hug (2016), Snow (2002), De Quincey (Anderson, M.E. 2011)

5 Glenfeshie Estate is one partner of the Cairngorm Connects project: a 200-year vision to enhance habitats, species and ecological processes across the Cairngorms National Park. See: http://cairngormsconnect.org.uk

6 See James J. Gibson’s (1962) Observations on Active Touch and more recently, on dynamic touch in Heras-Escribano, M (2019)

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Simone Kenyon

Simone Kenyon is an intra-disciplinary artist, dancer and Feldenkrais practitioner. For over twenty years she has developed a practice of expanded choreographies; encompassing movement, ecology, cultural geographies and walking arts to create participatory events for both urban and rural contexts. She is a current PhD researcher at the University of Leeds.