Somatic-Based Choreographic Collaborations Between Dancers from the United States and India

ABSTRACT

This article reflects on methods and findings from a choreographic collaboration of four undergraduate dance majors and their professor from the United States with five dance artists from India in June 2018. In this project, qualitative practices of journaling and interviewing supported somatic inquiry to foster more authentic empathic connection in the choreographic process. Somatic-based skills and sensibilities enriched the choreographic collaboration as the artists examined shared and divergent interpretations of felt physical sensation in and through the body.