Moving Embodied Ecologies Summer School

Contributing to the Moving Ecologies Summer School, facilitated by the Creative Practice and Embodied Knowledges Research Group (CPEK), 15-16th June 2026.

Bath Spa University, Newton Park, Bath

Short course.

Explore intersections between embodied practice and environment-based creative arts enquiry through movement workshops, reflexive writing and classroom-based discussion.

The Summer School features workshops and insights by distinguished experts in their fields; Karen Barbour (Site-Dance, Ethnography and Somatics, University of Waikato, Aotearoa), Heike Salzer (Senior Lecturer in Dance, University of Roehampton UK – specialist in Site-based movement and film making, UK) and Professor Vicky Hunter (Site-based body practice and ecosomatics, Bath Spa University, UK).

You’ll explore Karen’s practice-based site dance approach, fostering embodied ways of knowing place through creative arts practice attending to environmental and climate change, Heike’s Wanderlust method, in somatic landscapes involving wandering with a camera as a joyful mode of making screendance through landscape dialogues, and Vicky’s method of site-based body practice as a mode of invoking human-nonhuman relations informed by phenomenological and feminist new materialist perspectives.