Inspired by free movement shaped by inclusiveness for all life, outdoors, in the open.

 

 

In The Open is an outdoor, eco-somatic arts initiative grounded in artistic and cross-cultural practice that explores inclusive, environmentally attuned ways of being. It develops through free and improvised movement, shaped by embodied experience and deep attentiveness to place, site, and more-than-human environments.

 

The work is rooted in an ongoing enquiry developed through our previous productions, forming a thematic backbone that explores how identity is shaped through relationship with landscape, ecology, time, and living systems. It asks how we might understand ourselves as part of a wider ecological continuum, where selfhood is relational, porous, and co-created with the environments we inhabit.

 

In The Open invites participants to engage with natural environments as active collaborators in the creative process. Through movement, listening, and somatic awareness, the work responds to flora, fauna, terrain, weather, and shifting ecological conditions, foregrounding ways of knowing that are embodied, intuitive, and place-based.

 

At its core, the initiative explores connections between inner and outer worlds, expanding notions of belonging, identity, and care towards more-than-human perspectives. It considers inclusiveness not as a fixed state, but as a living, evolving practice shaped through responsiveness, reciprocity, and responsibility.

 

Movement is central as a method of inquiry. Through receptivity and attentiveness, artistic form emerges organically from lived experience rather than pre-defined choreography. This creates space for practices that are open, adaptive, and environmentally responsive.

​

In The Open ultimately proposes art-making as a shared ecological practice—one that values presence, interconnection, and co-existence with the animate world, where creativity emerges through listening, movement, and belonging.

 

----

​

The work within IN THE OPEN is designed to exist across multiple formats, emerging from residency programmes and/or collaborative projects including film, outdoor performances, performance-lectures, installations, and participatory research processes, allowing for accessible public engagement in both physical and digital contexts.

 

​