We Are Travellers: The Body as a Compass

Abstract

This article introduces the practice of walking-as-dancing. In this article, the terms walk and walking are often considered as synonymous with wandering since the practice of walking-as-dancing that I will describe does not have a set goal. When walking-as-dancing, I explore the improvisational nature of a wandering movement that allows me to let go of certainty and attune to the not-yet-known. I define the body as a compass that guides us through the path of the curriculum-as-lived (Aoki, 1993) and the curriculum itself. Through the analysis of the practice of walking-as-dancing, I will show how the knowledge of the body is already in us; it is us.

Fleshing Out the Embodied Potentialities of Positionality

“…I am curious about this shift. As an embodied intellectual (Weibe & Snowber, 2011), a full-bodied researcher (Bergonzoni, 2021), I attend to the subtle changes in my body, in my muscles and tendons, gut, and breath, as a way of practicing embodied listening (Snowber, 2016) in becoming increasingly responsive to rhythmic resonances that reverberate from inner and outer landscapes.…”