Spatial Awareness (sound collage)

In 2019, I was commissioned to write a text on ‘Why Dance Matters Now?’ for Delving into Dance and Critical Path’s Interchange Festival. As I was writing, the fires were blazing across Australia and I thought a lot about the interrelation between our human bodies and nature that surrounds us (and that we are). As part of the process, I recorded a number of podcast-conversations with dancers, musicians, installation artists, somatic practitioners, wanting to know (amongst other things) what the concept ‘spatial awareness’ signifies to them. Are dancers more spatially aware than other people? Is this why dance matters? Featured in this sound collage are voices / thoughts of (in order of appearance): Ira Ferris Kate Sherman Diane Busuttil Nicole Sutton Yorgo Kaporis Elia Bosshard Trevor Brown Kristýna Bartošová Image used is by artist Lena Kramaric (https://lenakramaric.com/) Music by @trevorbrownmusic