Covert: A Handbook 30 Movement Meditations for Resisting Invasion

by Smith, Phil; Kloetzel, Melanie

• ISBN13: 9781913743154
• ISBN10: 1913743152
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2021-02-25
• Publisher: Triarchy Press Ltd

Summary

Through 30 carefully crafted ‘movement meditations’—each with an accompanying photo to facilitate the meditation—Covert outlines a straightforward process that readers can enact right in their own neighbourhoods to help diminish the lure of their screens and nourish the dialogue between their conscious and unconscious selves.

Author Biography

Dr. Phil Smith is a performance-maker, writer, and academic researcher specialising in work around walking, site-specificity, mythogeographies, and counter-tourism. He is an Associate Professor (Reader) at the University of Plymouth. Melanie Kloetzel (MFA, PhD) is a performance maker, scholar, and educator who is committed to research that spans stage, site, and screen. Director of the dance theatre company kloetzel&co. and co-director of the art intervention collective TRAction, Kloetzel employs practice-as-research methodologies to develop events and encounters in theatre spaces, alternative venues, spaces of public assembly, and online environments. Kloetzel is Professor of Dance at the University of Calgary.