B Allegranti: Moving with the More-than-Human

Beatrice Allegranti: Moving with the More-than-Human

This presentation accompanies the screening of Moving with the Trouble (on the 31^st October), a dance film that draws directly from the Arts Council England, Surrey Arts and Public Health funded Moving Kinship project, and the internationally touring dance theatre production I’ve Lost You Only to Discover That I Have Gone Missing. The transdisciplinary work evolves from my feminist new materialist choreography, psychotherapy, scholarship and activism with people living with rare young onset dementia, their families and the artistic team Beatrice Allegranti Company. Since its inception in 2016, the project has spanned the deaths of three parents in the artistic team, and a pandemic. Through our dispossessions, this film explores how we have touched the alterity within, inviting audiences to move with us as we move with the trouble. I will discuss the choreographic assemblage and how the film, and the work that informs it, invites a transcorporeal tangling of movement with/in dementia and wider social, political and environmental inequalities of loss, voice, intimacy, vulnerability, destruction and care. In doing so, I propose that Moving with the Trouble tunes our attention to micro-activisms present in movement exchange as we show up to collective understandings of the reterritorialization of power and privilege in more-than-human ways. 

Biography

Dr. Beatrice Allegrantiis an independent choreographer, filmmaker, UKCP registered dance movement psychotherapist, and Reader in Dance Movement Psychotherapy and Choreography at the University of Roehampton, School of Arts. Beatrice’s choreography and film work has toured internationally (France, U.S.A, Norway, Finland, Ireland, Hong Kong, Japan, Poland, The Netherlands), and her clinical experience includes private practice and the UK National Health System (adult mental health and dementia services), and consultancy (Arts for Peace, Irish Defense Forces, Wellcome Trust). Across her artistic, clinical, and scholarly work, Beatrice’s transdisciplinary feminist new materialist focus involves an ethical re-visioning of the way we relate with/in the world through the lens of our intersectional body politics (gender, race, sexuality, age, class) in human and more-than-human ways. Beatrice is currently working on her second book (with Routledge) about the Moving Kinship project. www.beatriceallegranti.com