Along the SOMA axis, conceptual threads and modules enable us to focus our study on the body as an organisational system. In SOMA the body is the centre, not only for individual body-based practice or movement research, but a material foundation for community and collective care, a base to depart from and a safe haven to return to, while studying the complexities of diverse publics. It is from the perspective of our consciousness, psyche, mind and metabolism, our biological condition and ecological endangerment that individual and collective moments of research, study and practice are constructed. Classes held by faculty and Visiting Artist Lecturers along the SOMA threads expand on student’s body-based performative practices and their notations as (expanded) dramaturgies, moving in public spaces, solo performances, voices, languages, dances, scores and hungers, desires and nourishments. This thread is currently thaught and co-hosted by Catalina Insignares. 

Here you can find more information on the OPEN SOMA Shared Practice.