Ecological Bodying

Performance Creation/Research, Dance/Somatics, Practice/Theory

Sweet Labour Art “Dancing with Billy: Uskane Teyakyatkwa Billy” at Ecosex in the City, Performance Space, New York City, June 2023

Audience watching part 2 of work: Becoming Walnut Tree

Sweet Labour Arts Collective

At Ecosex in the City at Performance Space New York in June 2023, we shared all three sections of our film “Dancing with Billy: Uskane Teyakyatkwa Billy”: “Landing Duet,” “Becoming Walnut Tree, Becoming Forest,” and “Strawberry Entanglements.” We also led the audience through a participatory performance on entanglements, inviting them into a shared somatic practice of sensing themselves as part of an interconnected human and more-than-human field. In addition, we offered an artist talk/performance that wove together our process, our relationships with Billy, Deshkan Ziibi/Thames river, and Oneida Nation, and our ongoing explorations of queer ecology, death, and collective improvisation