Dance is so much more than just a metaphor for a legal process, it is a practice that can create a space to think but above all feel the law. It transcends the mind and reason and allows us to journey back to the body and to think with and through the body about legal alternatives that can regulate with clarity of the mind and body a better future.
Read more in this blogpost by Saskia Vermeylen, lawyer and researcher at the University of Strathclyde who is involved in Resonances IV on NaturArchy through the project of Jemma Woolmore, These Relations are Forever.
As she describes in this blog, her ritual is part of the wider intention to represent an embodied reflection of the use of endocrine (hormone) disrupting chemicals (EDC) and its impact on the environment and bodies, through rituals. Her ritual was curated as a 5 rhythm dance movement at Bitterfeld, a water treatment site near Berlin where contaminated groundwater is cleaned, experimenting with the impact of EDCs on the body.
In the post she shares preliminary reflections of how through the ritual of dance the human body became a site of legibility that has so far been ignored in environmental regulation.
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