Re-Shape-Land-Scape (2024-25)

Re-Shaping Landscapes is a practice research project comprising a dance film (Re-Shaping Landscapes), that evolves into a dance theatre piece (Re-Shape-Land-Scape), and a supporting journal article (Re-Shaping Landscapes: Moving the Coordinates).

Three female performers standing in a line on dimly lit stage

How do we inhabit landscapes that are disappearing or transforming? How do we cultivate collective action across dispersed geographies to address these challenges? Re-Shaping Landscapes explores these questions by reimagining how humans and landscapes interact in the Anthropocene. Blending movement, posthumanist philosophy, and ecological awareness, the project offers an embodied framework for engaging with environmental transformations.

The work explores movement as a catalyst for ecological consciousness and action. Grounded in site-specific narratives, it draws on the geographic coordinates from three climate-impacted regions: Norfolk, U.K.; Kyrenia, Cyprus; and Hong Kong, China, to choreograph embodied responses to these transforming landscapes. A shared movement vocabulary, developed collaboratively across the three locations, creates a sense of interconnectedness, inviting audiences to experience landscapes as dynamic, living entities.

Created in collaboration with Kevin Flanagan and Josh Newman from Anglia Ruskin University, Dr Tamara McCarty & Yıldız Sarah Güventürk at Arkin Creative Arts and Design University, Cyprus – ARUCAD. Dr Melina Scialom at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts 承蒙香港演藝學院允准參與是次演出.

Flyer for the Re-shape Landscape event in Edinburgh featuring a photo of Eva Aymami Rene dancing on a beach

The piece has been shown at: