Sondra Fraleigh is Professor Emeritus, Department of Dance, State University of New York, Brockport, U.S.A.

Shannon Rose Riley is Professor of Humanities & Creative Arts, San José State University, U.S.A.

Land Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
List of Figures
Ear and Heart to Earth with Gratitude
(Acknowledgements)

Introduction: Locating Geographies of Us
Sondra Fraleigh and Shannon Rose Riley
St. George, Utah, U.S.A: 37.0941° N, 113.5749° W
Fremont, California, U.S.A.: 37.5483° N, 121.9886° W

PART I
Enworlding, Rewilding, Decentering, Transing/Pluraling, Performing, Attending to, Dancing

1 A Critical Ecosomatics: Cultivating Awareness and Imagination
Shannon Rose Riley
Grau Pond, Fremont, California, U.S.A.: 37.5735° N,121.9847° W
Essay

2 What Native American Dance Does and the Stakes of Ecosomatics Tria Blu Wakpa
University of California, Los Angeles, California,
U.S.A.: 34.0700° N, 118.4442° W
South Dakota State Penitentiary, Sioux Falls,
South Dakota, U.S.A.: 43.5668° N, 96.7250° W
Essay

3 Ecosomatic Performance Research for the Pluriverse Daniel Ìgbín'bí Coleman
San Cristóbal de las Casas, México: 16.7370° N, 92.6376° W
Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.: 33.7532° N, 84.3853° W
Practice Pages

4 Material/ Material: Thousandfold Somas and Poetry of EmergenceSondra Fraleigh
St. George, Utah, U.S.A.: 37.0941° N, 113.5749° W
Essay

5 Decentering the Human through Butoh Lani Weissbach
Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A.: 39.7684° N, 86.1581° W
Practice Pages

6 Shaky Islands and Rising Seas: Dancing Entanglements in the Global South Karen Barbour
Kirikiriroa (Hamilton), Aotearoa (New Zealand): 37.7869° S, 175.3185° E
Essay

PART II
Horse, Lion, Queer Animal, Skin

7 Crittercal Somaticity: Rewilding Our Horse Senses
Stephen Smith
Pitt Meadows, British Colombia, Canada: 49.3058° N,122.6057° W
Essay

8 Moving with CatsShannon Rose Riley
The Berlin Zoological Garden, Berlin, Germany: 52.5079° N, 13.3378° E
Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany: 52.4911° N, 13.4127° E
Private multispecies dwelling, Fremont, California,
U.S.A.: 37.5483° N, 121.9886° W
Practice Pages

9 Embodying Islands: Ecosomatics and the Transnational Queer Fei Shi
Nex¿ wlélex¿ m (Bowen Island), Canada: 49.3768° N, 123.3702° W
Chongming Island, China: 31.6813° N, 121.4820° E
Essay

10 Skinbody and the Skin of the Earth Alison (Ali) East
Otepoti (Dunedin), Aotearoa (New Zealand): 45.8795° S, 170.5006° E
Practice Pages

PART III
Tree, River, Carbon, Stone

11 Practicing with Trees 219Annette Arlander
Galway Road, Johannesburg, South Africa:
26.1658° S, 28.0223° E
David Bagares Street, Stockholm, Sweden: 59.3373° N,18.0687° E
Kaivopuisto Park, Helsinki, Finland: 60.1557° N, 24.9557° E
Practice Pages

12 Fearless Belonging and River- Me Adesola Akinleye
Thames River, London, U.K.: 51.4925° N, 0.0288° W
Mystic River, Boston, Massachusetts: U.S.A.: 42.3979° N, 71.0797° W
Denton, Texas, U.S.A.: 33.2302° N, 97.1213° W
Essay

13 How to Apprentice with Land in Enchanted Kinship Christine BelleroseRockcliffe Park, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: 45.4471° N, 75.6847° W
Practice Pages

14 Feel the Carbon under Your Footprint: Indigenous Approaches to Grounding Nathalie Guillaume
K¿kaniloko Birthstones State Monument,
O'ahu, Hawaii: 21.5048° N, 158.0364° W
Port- au- Prince, Republic of Haiti: 18.5358° N, 72.3331° W
Practice Pages

PART IV
Place, Plasma, Pluriverse, Potato

15 My Place Is a Chiasmatic Dance Glen A. Mazis
Marietta, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: 40.0559° N, 76.5517° W
Essay

16 Cosmic Plasma Echoing in (Our) PlaceDebra Lacey
Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: 41.6033° N, 80.3058° W
Practice Pages

17 Languaging Body by Field: Ecoproprioception George Quasha
Barrytown, New York, U.S.A.: 41.9998° N, 73.9248° W
Essay

18 Outdoor Dances: Meditations on Loss in the Finger Lakes and Beyond Missy Pfohl Smith
Finger Lakes, New York, U.S.A.: 42.7238° N, 76.9297° W
Practice Pages

19 Awe and Empathy Edward S. Casey
Stony Brook, New York, U.S.A.: 40.9027° N, 73.1338° W
Essay

20 Enworlding Place Dances and Potatoes Sondra Fraleigh
Snow Canyon, Utah, U.S.A.: 37.2145° N, 113.6402° W
Yokohama, Japan: 35.4437° N, 139.6380° E
Circleville, Utah, U.S.A.: 38.1688° N, 112.2696° W
Practice Pages

Index