SOMATIC WRITING COLLECTIVE SERIES
SOMATIC WRITING COLLECTIVE
CHAPBOOK NO. I
Transcripts and Conversations from the
First Somatic Writing Symposium,
held in New York City, 2018.
Created by the Somatic Writing Collective, comprised of Dana Davison, Martha Eddy,
Pat Ethridge, Jane Kornbluh, and Kate Tarlow Morgan.
Supported by
BMCA and ISMETA.
Pat Ethridge, Jane Kornbluh, and Kate Tarlow Morgan.
Supported by
BMCA and ISMETA.
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The Somatic Writing Collective (SWC), founded in 2014, grew out of a desire to record the
mover’s journey and track a new language of experience. We want to be provocateurs with
words, because as movers we have gone places where not everybody goes. This is the first
mover’s journey and track a new language of experience. We want to be provocateurs with
words, because as movers we have gone places where not everybody goes. This is the first
in a series of chapbooks coming to the somatic community. SWC Symposiums offer guided
explorations and exercises in somatic writing and moving. SWC also hosts online Zoom
Symposiums; the next one will be coming soon. Stay tuned.
Symposiums; the next one will be coming soon. Stay tuned.
“As Kate Tarlow Morgan said this morning, “The dance into proprioception is sensed in the
body and manifest in the hand.”
Here, we aren’t interested in writing “about” the body, but “through” it.
– Kristen Prevalet
body and manifest in the hand.”
Here, we aren’t interested in writing “about” the body, but “through” it.
– Kristen Prevalet
“Today was a day of moving together, writing together, moving, writing, talking, talking,
moving, writing. It’s a lifetime process, defining writing somatically.”
– Martha Eddy
moving, writing. It’s a lifetime process, defining writing somatically.”
– Martha Eddy
“Our challenge as somatic writers is to generate the transformational essence of our work.”
– Talia Shafir
– Talia Shafir
